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NUNDAY featuring the Little Sisters of the Poor
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This Nunday we have the Little Sisters of the Poor, a religious community begun by Saint Jeanne Jugan and dedicated to the care of the elderly. In addition to the vows of poverty, obedience, and celibacy, the sisters also profess a vow of hospitality:
Sister Eva with residents of Saint Martin's and guest musicians
By our vow of hospitality we promise God to consecrate ourselves exclusively to the service of the elderly poor. We welcome them into our homes, form one family with them, accompany them from day to day and care for them with love and respect until God calls them home.
Through our vow of hospitality the Church has given us a mandate to prolong Christ’s mission of charity—to convey to the elderly, in the concrete realities of everyday life, the kindness and love of God for them, his eldest children.
Consecrated hospitality is a witness to the mercy and compassionate love of the heart of Jesus. (source)
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I think is it beautiful that these women are answering God’s call to serve the poor and needy. Many times the elderly are a forgotten segment of our society. With all the blessings that we have in oru lands, one of the things we lack is the compassion to care for our elderly neighbors. It isn’t ‘part of our culture’ anymore. In years past, when farming was the primary way of life, when someone got married they would just add on to the family farmstead or build another house on the land. Then, someone was always there to care for their aging relatives. (The Amish and Old Order Mennonites still do this to some degree with their ‘dawdy haus’) As we’ve gone farther away from the land, we also seem to have moved farther away from our communities and families, which has created a need for people to care for the aging in our society.
These sisters are a wonderful example of living the beatitudes daily!
Hey that’s my sister in the picture!!!
How fun, Mark!
Hahaha, Markie! That’s my sister, too! =D