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Honoring 300 years of service The five Medical Mission Sisters from North America who are celebrating 60-year Jubilees in 2009 represent a combined 300 years in mission. Five Medical Mission Sisters from North America are marking the 60th anniversary of their First Profession of Vows at a special Mass on August 16, 2009. Please join us in congratulations, prayers, and thanks for these Sisters’ many years of service. Sister Aquinas Hamilton, a New York City native, served as a nurse, midwife, and supervisor for many years in India. She was the Director of Nursing Education at New Delhi’s Holy Family Hospital for 6 years, and taught at Holy Family Hospital’s School of Nursing in Mandar for 18 years. Now living in Philadelphia, she is a passionate advocate for justice on the local, state, and national levels. Sister Jean Lorenz, an artist from Dubuque, Iowa, ministered as a local superior, fund-raiser, and medical illustrator. She was then in mission for 27 years in Kenya, creating manuals and posters to teach people about health, and serving as an associate chaplain at the psychiatric hospital in Nairobi. Today she works with incarcerated women, and at adult literacy centers, in the Philadelphia area. Sister Mary Elizabeth Johnson, who was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, served as a nurse-midwife and administrator in Rawalpindi, India, as well as in Karachi and Dacca, in Pakistan. In the mid-1960s, she returned to the U.S. and became involved in ministry and leadership teams, and the business and public relations aspects of our Community. She has lived for 29 years in Hartford, Connecticut, working at the Hartford Seminary, and providing administrative support to Sister Miriam Therese Winter, a well-known musician and published author. Sister Jane Coyle, who is from Atlantic City, New Jersey, served our Community for many years in formation, leadership, and administrative positions in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., England and the Philippines. In 1980, she moved to Baltimore, where she became involved in Corpus Christi Parish. Six years later, she was appointed the first female pastoral director in the Archdiocese of Baltimore – and one of the first in the world. Sister Jane now offers the parish her “retired” healing presence. Sister Kathleen Fitzgerald, a native of Long Branch, New Jersey, served in Rawalpindi, then in North India, where she became Directress of Holy Family Hospital’s School of Nursing. She was also a Novice Mistress in Lipa City, the Philippines, and South Shields, England, and a staff nurse at Holy Family Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. After returning again to the U.S. in the early 1970s, she worked as a nursing instructor. In 1992, she co-founded the Anna Center, a respite care center for homeless women, in Washington, D.C. She now lives in Baltimore and has a ministry with incarcerated women in Jessup, Maryland. August 1, 2009
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