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The annual World Day of Prayer will be observed on Friday, March 2nd, in over 170 countries around the world. The theme for 2007 is “United Under God’s Tent.” Each year, women from a different country write the service – this year, women from Paraguay created it. For more information, please visit www.worlddayofprayer.net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday, March 8, is International Women’s Day. Medical Mission Sisters in many nations celebrate this day. Sister Juliana D’Cunha, Administrator of Kurji Holy Family Hospital in Patna, Bihar, India, explains that it is, "an opportunity we take to bring the women together to connect and foster relationships across borders because they are divided by factors such as caste (untouchables), class, illiteracy, poverty, violence, etc. The poverty they bear leaves no time for themselves but to meet the demands of basic needs. Most of the women we work with are below the poverty line."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Three of our Sisters recently attended a presentation by Sister Simone Campbell, SSS, Executive Director of NETWORK, a National Catholic Social Justice Lobby. Sister Simone spoke about the political dynamics in the U.S. over the past 25 years, and her hopes of what Congress may be able to accomplish in the next year. For more information, please visit www.networklobby.org.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Liturgy Schedule for Medical Mission Sisters’ celebration of Lent and Easter at our North American Headquarters in Philadelphia is now available. Evening Prayer takes place each Saturday in Lent at 5:00 p.m., and Sunday Liturgy at 10:00 a.m. For a copy of the full schedule, please contact us at mmsorg@medicalmissionsisters.org
March 1,
2007
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