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Medical Mission Sisters join our hearts in unity and prayer for the loved ones of those killed in the church bombing in Jolo, Sulu, the Philippines. Lord have mercy, hear our prayer.
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Sister Dr. Anke Boekenfoerde meets with people suffering from mental illness in Indonesia, gathering data she then shares with the Health Ministry, Ministry of Social Welfare, WHO and various universities.
The local women in Rubanda, Uganda, taught by Sr. Roselyn Ninsiima (in the black jacket), are weaving baskets they will sell in the MMS Health Clinic to support their families.
In Kerala, South India Medical Mission Sisters, including Sr Dolores Kannampuzha (on the right), provided shelter, food and supplies to displaced people after the deadly monsoon in August 2018.
Children in Ang’iya, Kenya enjoy creative expression with North American Associate Phil Pryjma, whose foundation Sawa Sawa supports the local school and MMS medical clinic.
Sr. Lorraine Ryan (center) stands with students at the program she started, Women’s Circle in Boynton Beach, FLA, where almost 300 immigrant and underprivileged women receive free classes and career training each year.
The soup kitchen in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, organized and run by Medical Mission Sisters feeds over 200 hungry residents in the barrio every day.
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Newly-vowed Medical Mission Sisters from around the world and local Associates gather in Germany for a celebration of unity and purpose.
Our Mission
Medical Mission Sisters are women full of passion…for wholeness, for justice, for life. Like our Foundress, Anna Dengel, M.D., “it eats us up” when individuals and communities are denied the resources and opportunities they need to live as human beings. It moves us to the core of our being when and where people are made poor, are oppressed or are overwhelmed with a sense of powerlessness.
In our broken, wounded world, Medical Mission Sisters are called to live as a healing presence. We try to bring about a world where all live in harmony and where no one is in want. We try to live as Jesus lived, with care and compassion for all.
A Community of dedicated women with over 500 Canonical members and 100 Associates, we share life and our own unique expertise with women, children and men on five continents today. We enter into their lives as partners, as peers, as friends. We work together with them to build one world, and be one world, where the gifts of all people, all cultures, all creation are affirmed and celebrated.
Healing Presence
When Indonesian Sister Agatha Titi Prawati was studying to become a Medical Mission Sister, she was struck by our Society’s message of empowerment.
“Empowerment is a part of our life and mission as MMS,” Sister Agatha shares. “I also began to understand that empowerment was what I received when I was in formation [to become an MMS].”
After earning a degree in education and entering MMS in 1992, Sister Agatha set about helping others to become empowered. She provided welfare services for children living in slum areas and income-generating projects for adult women. Working in Pakistan, Sister Agatha participated in a nutrition program for malnourished children. Today she has returned to Indonesia and is a healing presence at Fatima Hospital, accompanying people who are suffering from diseases like leprosy.
Sister Agatha reflects: “This a world with many nations, cultures, languages, ethnicities, traditions, backgrounds and ways of doing things. These realities make me more aware that I am part of this larger world and that I cannot live in isolation. This understanding helps me to connect to the people and all of creation as I become more conscious that what I do will have an effect on others in the world.”
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