Will we all meet in heaven? O what joy even to think of it.

January 12, 2012
HigHligHts
in Memoriam
Sister Mary Joachim Scally
and Sister Mary Claire von
Rinteln die in Baltimore,
Maryland.
sharing the call to Mercy
Sister Sue Ruedy and Sister
Claudia Cano tell their stories
to Cincinnati’s Catholic
community.
Welcome, Mary
New director of retirement
services joins South Central
on January 30.
Calendar
January 16
Mercy Administration Center
in Belmont closed for Martin
Luther King, Jr. birthday
February 6
Deadline for receipt of nominations
for CLT (by postal
mail or fax). Click here for
elections materials.
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South Central Community
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South Central Community
A season of discernment for us
With the invitation to nominate members for leadership, the meeting of the Assembly
Steering Committee last weekend, and the meeting of the Gatherings and Circles
Committee scheduled this weekend, we enter a special season of discernment.
Members and leaders
alike are called upon to
step back, even as we
fully engage in our daily
lives, and to have “eyes to
see and ears to hear:”
• how we are as a community,
sister to sister,
members and leaders;
• how we are reading
the signs of the times
and in light of our
charism, responding
to people who most
need us.
Sister Mary Stanton (left), Assembly Steering chair; Sister Jane
Hotstream, Community vice president; and Sister Shirley Chung,
Steering Committee member, at last week’s two-day meeting.
It is a time of discernment not simply because we are preparing for our 2012 Assembly
but because we are in a graced moment as Institute following our 2011 Chapter.
We carry in our hands and our hearts the Declaration and our experience of communal
faith sharing, as we recognize together that apostolic religious life, church, our
country and the world are all at critical junctures in their development.
With these privileged six months of preparation for our Assembly, let us come
together with our Declaration, and the reality of the world and our Community and
discern our role in bringing God’s heaven to earth.

In Memoriam
Sister Mary
Joachim Scally
Orphanage in Baltimore.
Sister Mary Joachim Scally died
peacefully in her sleep on Saturday,
January 7, 2012, at The
Villa in Baltimore, Maryland.
A Sister of Mercy for 75 years,
Sister Mary Joachim was 103
years old.
She began her ministry in elementary
education and served
in 12 schools in Maryland and
Virginia, as well as St. Vincent’s
Sister Mary Joachim credited her mother with the
training that led her to religious life. “I felt convent
life was the gift God was asking of me, as He had so
generously allowed me to develop my talents in a
good Catholic background. I accepted His invitation
for which I was and remain very grateful.”
Sister Mary
Claire von Rinteln
Sister Mary Claire von Rinteln,
died peacefully Wednesday,
January 4, 2012 at Sinai Hospital
in Baltimore, Maryland, just one
day shy of her 89th birthday. She
was surrounded by Community
members, including her dear
friend Sister Ruth Handren.
Sister Claire was a Sister of
Mercy for 68 years. In her active
years, she taught in Mercy-sponsored grade schools,
served on the staff of Mercy High School and Mount
Saint Agnes College in Baltimore, and taught at summer
catechetical camps in the southern U.S.
She also ministered in healthcare in Baltimore and
in Atlanta, Georgia. “I drove an 18 wheeler and did
patient intake,” she said of one of her favorite tasks of
driving a mobile health van at St. Joseph’s Hospital in
Atlanta. Even after retirement, she maintained an interest
in the work of the sisters, especially justice, and for
many years traveled to the School of the Americas vigil
at Fort Benning, Georgia.
An extended obituary of Sister Mary Clare is attached
to today’s enews.
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Mercy in the news
In recognition of National Vocation Awareness Week,
The Catholic Telegraph, the newsletter of the Archdiocese
of Cincinnati, Ohio, published the stories of Sister Sue
Ruedy and Sister Claudia Cano and their calls to Mercy.
To read about Sister Sue, click here.
Go here for Sister Claudia’s story.
The Catholic Telegraph featured this photo of Sister Claudia
Cano (left) with Sister Kathy Green during her Reception Ceremony
at the 2010 Assembly of the South Central Community.
Justice update
JanUarY is natiOnal slaVerY and HUMan
traFFiCKing PreVentiOn MOntH
Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings
for commercial exploitation or slave labor. Without our
knowledge, the supply chain for our everyday purchases
may support the human trafficking industry.
Worldwide, an estimated 12 million people live in
forced labor, bonded labor and sexual exploitation. In
the U.S., 100,000 children are sexually exploited commercially
every year. Trafficking includes domestic
workers held in homes, farm hands forced to work
against their will and factory workers imprisoned in
their places of work.
Although poverty is highly correlated with human
trafficking because it is often an indicator of vulnerability,
poverty alone is not a single causal factor or
universal indicator.

For an information and workshop kit on trafficking of
women and children, click here.
Director of retirement
services to join Mercy
Mary Johnson will join the
South Central Community in
the new position of director of
retirement services on Monday,
January 30, 2012.
Mary comes to us with more
than 20 years of experience
with Aldersgate United Meth-
Mary Johnson
odist Retirement Community
in Charlotte, North Carolina,
where she most recently served as vice president and
administrator of operational services. An experienced
human resources professional as well, she also has
served as human resource manager for Crisis Assistance
Ministry, one of Charlotte’s most well respected
nonprofit organizations. She holds North Carolina
licenses as an assisted living administrator and as
a nursing home administrator and received a bachelor’s
degree in organizational communications from
Queens University in Charlotte.
In her new position with Mercy, Mary will assist and
advise Community Leadership in the ongoing planning
and development of a retirement program that
supports the life and mission of the South Central
Community. In addition, she will provide administrative
oversight for our stateside retirement convents
that provide assisted living and skilled care.
Welcome, Mary!
Today’s attachments
• Directory changes for January 12, 2012.
• Extended obituary for Sister Mary Clarice Millet.
• Extended obituary for Sister Mary Claire von Rinteln.
Please send stories
Please remember to send your stories and photos for
enews to Myra Joines, communications director, at
mjoines@mercysc.org by Tuesday at noon Eastern
Daylight Time.
We appreciate your understanding that we sometimes
aren’t able to include all the stories we receive during a
particular week because of time limitations. Thanks for
your patience.
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Directory Changes – January 12, 2012
First Name Last Name Correction Section Page(s)* New Information
Sr. Doris Jean Miller New residence Sisters 108
Sr. Mary
Paulinus
Oakes New residence Sisters 114
8405 Nunley Drive
Sr. M. Joachim Scally Remove listing Sisters 133 RIP 1/7/12
Sr. Claire Von Rinteln Remove listing Sisters 151 RIP 1/4/12
Mary Alig Houston New last name Associates 217
Baltimore, MD 21234-4448
Sisters of Mercy - Oakes
848 Lakeland Drive Apt. 211
Jackson, MS 39216-4650
*New apartment number
Delete: Mary Alig Williams
Add: Mary Alig Houston

First Name Last Name Correction Section Page(s)* New Information
Shannon Quistorff New Associate Associates 203
Shannon Quistorff
3484 Mason Spring Drive
Lincolnton, North Carolina 28092
704-240-9396 home
813-997-6186 cell
squistorff@aol.com
Covenant Date 1/7/2012

Will we all meet in heaven?
O what joy even to think of it.
Mary Clarice Millet, RSM
Religious Sister of Mercy
February 6, 1924-December 21, 2011
3+#
Catherine McAuley
Sister Mary Clarice Millet, 87, died at The Sisters of Mercy Convent in
Savannah, Georgia. Sister Clarice was born in Dallas, Texas. She was
the daughter of the late John Joseph Millet, born in Switzerland, and Adele
Louvard born in New York City.
Sister Clarice attended elementary school in Dallas and high school in
Mobile, Alabama.
In 1970, she received her license as a practical nurse from Savannah Vo-Tech.
Her ministry ranged from her work in healthcare in Mobile to her work at
St. Joseph’s Hospital in Savannah.
In her later years, Sister Clarice enjoyed her role as a visitor to the sick and as a
volunteer in the Medical Records Department of St. Joseph’s Hospital and faithfully
served that department for many years. In addition to her work for others, she had
a great love for animals of any kind, especially dogs, and a fondness for movies. She
spent many of her early years in Dallas watching movies of all types at the cinema.

Sister Clarice had a special fondness for Mary, our Blessed Mother, and
enjoyed several group trips to sites where Mary is reported to have appeared,
especially Medjugorje in the Bosnia and Herzegovina area. She enjoyed traveling
and was quite capable of finding her way wherever she wanted to go!
Sister Clarice is survived by the members of her Sisters of Mercy Community,
her cousin in Switzerland, friends and the caregivers at Mercy Convent. In
tribute to Sister Clarice, staff members from the Medical Records Department
of St. Joseph’s Hospital attended her Funeral Mass.
By Sister Frances Ann Cook
Funeral Mass: December 23, 2011, Saint Frances Cabrini Church in
Savannah, Georgia
Date of Interment: December 23, 2011, Catholic Cemetery,
Savannah, Georgia

Will we all meet in heaven?
O what joy even to think of it.
Sister Mary Claire von Rinteln
Religious Sister of Mercy
January 5, 1923-January 4, 2012
3+#
Catherine McAuley
Sister Mary Claire von Rinteln, once known as Sister Mary Aquinas, died at
Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, surrounded by several Sisters of Mercy,
among whom was her dear friend, Sister Ruth Handren. Sister Claire was born to
Marie Ludorf and Victor von Rinteln on January 5, 1923, in Baltimore. She entered
the Sisters of Mercy in 1943 and was a member of the Community for 69 years.
The motto inscribed in Sister Claire’s ring is “To know only Jesus Christ and
Him crucified.”
Sister Claire’s service to the poor, sick and uneducated took her to every part
of the region served by the Baltimore Sisters of Mercy: Alabama, Georgia, Washington,
D.C. and Maryland. In her active years, she taught in Mercy-sponsored
grade schools, served on the staff of Mercy High School and Mount Saint Agnes
College in Baltimore, and taught at summer catechetical camps in the southern
United States.

Sister Claire then was assigned to healthcare, ministering at Stella Maris
Hospice in Baltimore and at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. She next
became an advocate for the homeless in Atlanta and then returned to Baltimore
to work in literacy education at the Learning Bank of COIL (Communities Organized
to Improve Life). When interviewed by Sister Irene Callaghan in 2004,
Sister Claire indicated that one of her favorite jobs was driving the mobile health
van of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta. “I drove an 18 wheeler and did patient
intake,” she said.
“She could run an army,” said Sister Sharon Burns, who lived with Sister
Claire for many years at Harmony House in Baltimore. “You could always count
on her to take care of things that needed to be done.”
Although she retired in 2006, Sister Claire maintained an interest in the work
of her sisters, especially efforts at justice for the poor and for women in church
and society. For many years she traveled south to join the protests at the School of
the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia. Sister Claire encouraged and attended the
newly founded Mount Saint Agnes Theological Center for Women in Baltimore
and supported theologian Elizabeth Johnson, whose books she eagerly read. In
her final years, reading was her great pleasure; she was seldom without a book.
Known for her dry wit and no-nonsense approach to problems, Sister Claire
was a staunch friend and ally. To be her friend, you had to be able to stand up
to her strong opinions.
Sister Claire is survived by her sister, Libby Carnes, and numerous nieces
and nephews.
By Mary Aquin O’Neill, RSM
Funeral Mass: January 9, 2012, The Villa, Baltimore, Maryland