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Medical Mission Sister Maigualida (Mai) Riera del Valle, visiting from Venezuela, shared with our Sisters, Associates and staff in Philadelphia what is happening for our Sisters and their neighbors in her home country.  Although Sr. Mai’s sometimes trembling voice expressed the emotional toll of seeing her neighbors in Barquisimeto suffer, she also described hope in the children singing in the Latidos Choir she founded and in the powerful experience of seeing neighbors helping neighbors.

Caption: Over 200 children from the barrio have joined the Latidos choir, bringing joy and healing to a neighborhood staggering under devastating hyperinflation and lack of resources.

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Sister Nirmala Chirackapurayidam, center, a nurse-midwife, offers assistance to a patient at the Medical Center in Rajabala, West Garo Hills, North East India.
Medical Mission Sisters Associate Yira Infante is a special healing presence to the barrio children in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
Brick kiln workers in Pakistan often have little or no access to medical care. Sister Pauline Sadiq started health services to help them.
Sister Joan Foley (center), Director, with volunteers at our Thrift Shop in Philadelphia. Proceeds from the Thrift Shop support our global mission.
In Ang’iya, Kenya, Sister Scovia Kiconco lovingly offers help to a woman who has fallen ill while harvesting in the corn fields.
Sister Jyoti Kujur provides guidance and hope to homeless Indian men and women in the United Kingdom.

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.

Your Support in 2018 has provided:

  • A water purification system so our Sisters, and those suffering TODAY in Venezuela, no longer have to purchase their only water in huge vessels off the back of trucks

 

  • A full year of tuition for youth in the lowest caste in India (disparagingly called rat-eaters), including nutritious food, transportation, books, and other necessities

 

  • New maternity wing in Rubanda, Uganda, giving new mothers and their babies their own space

 

  • Assistance with serving daily meals to over 350 of those without homes in North Philadelphia

 

  • Sewing machines, business workshops, cloth, yarn, and other supplies to help local women in Venezuela, India and Africa establish income-producing businesses

 

  • Aide to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

 

….. And much more!  Thank you for being our partner in mission as we continue to be a healing presence all over the world. 

Healing Presence

Associate Tom Sexton has been on a “search for self” for as long as he can remember,  and says that he was a very idealistic young boy.  He left his home in New Jersey at age 17 to join the U.S. Marine Corps and, in 1959, he entered the seminary at St. Jerome’s College in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Although he left after three years, opting to finish his education at Villanova University instead of entering the major seminary, his experience contributed greatly to his spiritual growth. He later found a job teaching English and Latin at Pitman High School in New Jersey, where he discovered his passion for coaching cross-country. He accepted a job at Cheltenham High School in Philadelphia in 1966, eventually publishing a book about motivating athletes respectfully called Creating a Team Like No Other.

Tom has been married to his wife, Marge, since 1982. They both had children from previous marriages and lovingly embraced their new “blended family.” When the couple lost their beloved son Ron in 2015 they were both devastated, and Tom did everything he could to be a healing presence for Marge. He shares: “I can’t describe what an honor it is to be married to Marge and to know that I am making her daily life more peaceful and manageable.”

As part of her determined effort to transform her grief into a healing presence, Marge made her First Associate Commitment in 2017 and, in October 2018, Tom made his First Commitment. He shares: “I feel God’s love here. I feel very grateful that the Sisters allow me to worship here and to be a part of the Community.”

 

 

 

 

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Medical Mission Sisters Websites
Medical Mission Sisters have created a number of
websites to share information about our Community,
its mission and its vision with a wide variety of people.
www.medicalmissionsisters.org presents our worldwide mission
of healing
www.medicalmissionsisters.org.uk is the new Society
website created by our Generalate in London
www.missionsaerztliche-schwestern.org is our German website
www.medischemissiezusters.nl is our Dutch website
www.medicalmissionsisters-uk.org  presents our life
and work  in the United Kingdom
www.misionerasmedicas.org is our Spanish Latin American website
www.mmsne.org focuses on our mission in North East India
www.medicalmissionsistersnorthindia.org is our North India website
www.mmssouthindia.org highlights our mission in South India
www.ayushyamms.org shares the work of our Center for
Healing and Integration in India
www.mmsheal.wordpress.com features our ecological ministry at
HEAL in the Philippines
www.mms-un.org tells of our involvements at the
United Nations

 

Medical Mission Sisters are an organization of Roman Catholic Sisters and designated as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit charitable organization by the IRS