Membership Information

Being in Mission is what being a Medical Mission Sister is all about. It's a job of a lifetime that asks you to use all of who you are. It's a task of being attentive to the experience of God in your life. It is a task of reaching out with loving hands in service, to nurture life and to promote wholeness.

Being in Mission means knowing yourself as "sister"

to all those who are down and out, rock bottom poor, cast aside or whose lives are made to be peripheral;

to feel the hurt and anger of dashed hopes;

to know the pain of broken bones and crushed spirits;

to grieve the life that has never had a chance to live.

Being in Mission means sharing your resources, whatever they may be, and joining together with others to create a more just and human world.

Becoming a Medical Mission Sister, a woman who chooses to live her life in mission, is really a life-long process of learning from life and of growing in a mature relationship with God, self and others.

Initial Incorporation involves

  • Pre-Candidacy – normally a 6 to 24 month phase of introduction to the Medical Mission Sisters
  • Candidacy – approximately 2 years of coming to a deeper understanding of a call to life in mission as a Medical Mission Sister
  • Temporary Commitment – 3 to 6 years of living as a Canonical member with vows of poverty, chastity and obedience
  • Profession of Vows for Life
For a brochure on membership in the Medical Mission Sisters, please contact Sister Marguerite Papineau at: mms8400@aol.com

 

 

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Sister Katherine Baltazar, who made her First Vows in Philadelphia, has a Master's Degree in Nursing. She has lived in many countries and speaks 6 languages. She entered our Community from Hawaii.