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“The spouse of Jesus Christ is called to Religion not only to be saved but also to become a saint.”
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Venerable Mother Catherine McAuley Symposium Videos
"Perfection of the Ordinary Act in the Thought of Venerable Catherine McAuley"
By Sr. Mary Raphael, RSM
"The Asceticism of Participation as Seen in the Life and Writings of Venerable Catherine McAuley"
By Sr. Mary Christine, RSM
“For a Time Like This--Life & Circumstances in Georgian Dublin & the Life of Ven. Catherine McAuley”
By Sr. Catherine Marie, RSM
“We are formed by God, for Himself alone.”
Mother Mary McGreevy, RSM shares about the Foundation Day of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan on September 1, 1973. “By God’s grace,” Mother Mary said, “here we are. 50 years later. What we’re celebrating is God’s blessing. It’s a miracle.”
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Mother Mary Christa
“Religious Life as Forming Connaturality of the Holy Spirit”
Sister Mary Helena
“If the Lord does not build the house, in vain do its builders labor”
Sister Mary Nika
“The Evolution of the Ecclesial Dimension of Religious Life”
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NOTE: Holy Hour on Monday, April 8 will begin at 3:55 p.m.
In addition to praying with us, we invite you to let us pray for your express intentions during our Holy Hours. Please see the link below to our virtual intentions book.
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Holy Hour 5:10 p.m. EST
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Holy Hour 5:10 p.m. EST
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Holy Hour 3:55 p.m. EST
A Treasurer of Heavenly Blessing
Learn about Venerable Mother Catherine McAuley’s cause for canonization, and about the healing of a 6 month old baby, which is under investigation as the potential miracle for her Beatification.
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Sister Teresa Mary and Sister Maria Pacis share their joyful gratitude and love for their vocations as Religious Sisters of Alma, Michigan…Come and See!
Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan share the charism of Mercy and information about a typical day in their life, a tour of their chapel and prayer, vocation testimonies and so much more!
I do vow to Almighty God…
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Sister Mary Juanita, RSM
Mumbai, India
Sister Maria Guadalupe, RSM
Indianapolis, Indiana
Sister Andrea Marie, RSM
Buyeo, South Korea
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An Annual Tradition For Perpetual Vows…
A Sweet Tradition
On Aug. 16, Merrill Dairy Bar — affectionately known as the Merrill Whippy Dip — in Merrill, Michigan, had the pleasure of hosting 58 members of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan. The sisters were celebrating Sister’s profession of Perpetual Vows, which were received by Bishop Robert D. Gruss of Saginaw.
a sister responds to her baptismal gift
“I do vow”
In a joyful Mass, Sister Agnes Mary Graves professed perpetual vows as a Religious Sister of Mercy of Alma, Michigan at the Cathedral of Mary of the Assumption in Saginaw on Wednesday, Aug. 16.
Maronite rite Medical Student Meets Mercy
“God Gradually Opened My Heart”
Sister Mary Rafqa shares her story with Columbia Magazine readers. Click the Article Link below to learn more about journey from Maronite Rite and medical school to Mercy, on page 36.
Open House at a Local Convent
There was a steady flow of guests — both young and young at heart — throughout the afternoon. While many enjoyed lunch inside, a few of the Religious Sisters cooled off from the summer-like temperatures outside in a friendly battle of water squirt wands with the children.
A Physician who Sees Christ in Her Patients
SISTER MARIE PAUL SERVES THE UNDERSERVED
Sister Marie Paul hopes everyone who walks into an exam room at the clinic will have an encounter with Christ. She isn’t there to proselytize to her patients but rather to serve as a witness to hope. “I hope they will experience God’s love and mercy in the way we care for them,” she says.
Serving God’s Children
A Pediatrician for Mercy
She completed medical school at Ohio University and is now a part-time pediatrician at the Cristo Rey Community Center in Lansing. In addition to spending three days a week seeing patients at the clinic, she is the local superior of the sisters’ house in DeWitt.
A Divine Calling: Helping the Most Vulnerable Populations
Where Mercy and Justice Meet
Sister Brigid Mary returns to Oklahoma as a graduate of Villanova Law. Her next step is the implementation and rollout of the new Human Trafficking Response Program at Saint Francis Health System, which will become a resource for some of the neediest and vulnerable populations in Oklahoma. “The whole health system is excited and ready to take on this new work, and it will be my main focus for the next year.”
What it means to be a Catholic Healthcare Organization
Catholic Identity in Action with Sister Mary Nika
“My work is primarily with the Catholic identity – what it means to have a Catholic health care clinic,” she says.
For 12 years, she worked at a Catholic hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, doing this work, and now she has come to Cristo Rey Community Center in Lansing to support the work of CEO Joe Garcia.
Diocesan High School Welcomes the Religious Sisters of Mercy into the Ranks
Sister Mary Hanah & Sister Mary Elisha
During the summer of 2021, Bishop Kelley High School welcomed two members of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, MI: Sister Mary Hanah Doak, RSM and Sister Mary Elisha Glady, RSM.
The Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan are a refoundation of the original order of the Sisters of Mercy. The community was established in 1973 as a separate religious institute in Alma, Mich. They have about 100 Sisters worldwide with 13 communities across the U.S. and four communities overseas.
Sister Mary Hanah and Sister Mary Elisha reside with the St. Francis Hospital apostolate of Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Mich.
Three Catholic schools welcome new principals
Sister Regina Marie
Sister Regina Marie, a member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan, is the new principal of St. Clare of Assisi Catholic School in Edwards, Colo. Sister Regina Marie has served at St. Clare of Assisi for the past three years, teaching both K-8 music and middle school theology. Prior to coming to St. Clare, Sister was in Rome where she had the opportunity to study at some of the pontifical universities.
Australia welcomes Sister Mary Lily back: then as a student, now as a Sister!
Sister Mary Lily
If a word can sum up the last few years for Sr Mary Lily, it might be ‘mercy’.
Until recently she was known as Sarah Lovegrove, a law and arts student at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney.
Now a novice with the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan, the 24-year-old has returned to her hometown and her old uni, where her vocation began to take shape, to work in its chaplaincy team.
Sister Miriam Honored for Work at Catholic Charities
Sister Miriam
“Immediately after both hurricanes, Sister Miriam was on site at Catholic Charities,” Boxie continued. “When the pandemic hit, she did not close the doors. She knew she could not turn her back at a time when people were hurting and needed assistance.”
Sister Miriam MacLean, R.S.M., Executive Director of Catholic Charities of Southwest Louisiana, was honored as the Jack V. Doland Citizen of the Year at the 30th annual Women’s Fall Conference in October at the Lake Charles Civic Center.
Five Sisters Profess Perpetual Vows as Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan
2021 Perpetually Professed
In a joyful ritual Mass, five women professed their perpetual vows as Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan at the Cathedral of Mary of the Assumption in Saginaw on Monday, Aug. 16.
Sister Maria Juan Anderson, Sister Andrea Marie Lee, Sister Maria Crucis Garcia, Sister Miriam Fidelis Reed and Sister Brigid Mary Meeks each professed their perpetual vows. During the Mass, each sister professed her vows, reading from a handwritten formulary, while kneeling before Mother Mary McGreevy, Superior General of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma.
Saint Mary’s Legacy Mobile Clinic is Mercy on the move!
Sister Mary Lisa on the Move!
“Our new patients, when they first come in, often they haven’t received medical care for years — and they’ve been treated as ‘less than,’ over and over, again and again. So it starts with hospitality, and how we greet and receive people, and being there for our patients, not in a judgmental way. And just letting them know that we are really here to serve them. And that’s our biggest goal in what we do here.”
Sister student, studying clinical psychology at Divine Mercy University, shares her vocation story
Sister Maria Amata
Although it was scary to give up my plans for the future (which included a career in medicine) and face the unknowns of separation from my family in order to enter a convent, it gave me so much peace to trust that not only was God in control, but that He would lead me to discover it and give me the grace I needed to respond with alacrity. I constantly returned to a piece of advice from one of the sisters: “Peace follows God’s will ...”
Sister Physicians care for the body and soul of their patients in rural East Tennessee
Sister Mary Lisa
“For Sister Mary Lisa Renfer, serving as medical director at the St. Mary's Legacy Clinic is her dream job. 'I didn't think you could be a sister and a doctor. Turns out you can.' …The mobile family practice clinic serves about 300 patients, scattered over six rural communities. Most have no insurance. Many have chronic conditions, like diabetes and hypertension, and had been without regular medical care for years before coming to the clinic, said Sister Mary Lisa.”
Sister physician brings comprehensive care to covid-19 patients
Sister Grace Miriam
“With the social distancing and all that entails, it’s been a real change in the way that we’re taking care of our patients,” she said, adding that it’s not easy seeing families unable to visit their loved ones, and seeing the patients, who are left without communication to the outside world…Being first a religious sister and second a physician has given Sister Grace Miriam a different perspective on how to treat these patients with extra care, she said.
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