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SPRING/SUMMER 20<strong>18</strong> PAGE 10<br />
Sr. Ruth Beaudoin<br />
Sr. Rita Beaudoin<br />
There is an article in the Holy Union Constitutions, the<br />
sisters’ rule of life, that states: “Our participation in the<br />
Community mission lasts all through life.” Just as they<br />
answered “yes” to the initial call to follow Jesus through<br />
religious life, many sisters find creative ways to live out<br />
this article as they age and are no longer in full time<br />
ministries.<br />
How is this happening today? Srs. Rita and Ruth Beaudoin,<br />
along with other residents of Mary Immaculate<br />
Residence in Lawrence, MA participated in a research<br />
project from Harvard University. The authors of the<br />
study asked them to complete a questionnaire which<br />
will help the researchers to glean more information<br />
about what makes older persons more or less possible<br />
candidates for Alzheimers, which affects so many older<br />
Americans today.<br />
MINISTRY<br />
OF PRESENCE<br />
Sisters at The Landmark Residence in Fall River make issues<br />
of justice part of their daily prayer as they gather<br />
each afternoon. At their daily Mass, they often ask the<br />
priest celebrating to offer prayers to mark world days such<br />
as for an end to Human Trafficking, and Prayers for Peace<br />
which Pope Francis has requested of all the faithful.<br />
Sisters can be found volunteering in hospitals and nursing<br />
homes, offering a listening ear and heart, praying<br />
with patients who are ill and have no family members<br />
to visit them.<br />
It is through these various opportunities that Holy Union<br />
Sisters continue to say “yes” to what God asks of them<br />
each day and participate in the community’s Mission in<br />
ways they would not have imagined in their youth.<br />
Mass of<br />
Gratitude<br />
On April <strong>18</strong>th, 20<strong>18</strong> a Mass of Gratitude was celebrated at the Landmark in Fall<br />
River, MA for our donors, families and friends. All the intentions sent by donors<br />
were placed near the altar in the Landmark Chapel and lifted up in prayer during<br />
this Mass. Msgr. John Perry, during the Prayers of the Faithful, mentioned in particular<br />
the intentions sent by benefactors. As people were gathered , a special<br />
tribute intention was sent by a long time benefactor that explains why our donor<br />
relationships are so lasting was read. Dr. Michael Pappafagos, Lighthouse School,<br />
Inc. writes “May all the Holy Union Sisters be blessed by God’s grace as a testimony to their<br />
longstanding devotion, sacrifice and unrelenting work that has elevated the lives of so many.”
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