Fall 2011

MercyWorks Committed to the Mercy Mission Sisters of Mercy of the Americas – Northeast Community 15 HighlandView Road Cumberland, RI 02864-1124 www. mercyne. org Fall 2011 Senior Sister’s Service—From Principal to ER Volunteer This story is one... More

MercyWorks Committed to the Mercy Mission Sisters of Mercy of the Americas – Northeast Community 15 HighlandView Road Cumberland, RI 02864-1124 www. mercyne. org Fall 2011 Senior Sister’s Service—From Principal to ER Volunteer This story is one example of how your support enables Sisters of Mercy in the Northeast to continue to be influential, effective agents of social and spiritual change. The following excerpt is reprinted with permission from The Evangelist, the newspaper of the Diocese of Albany, New York. While she once had to deal with disciplining children and the mild bedlam of recess, Sister Patricia Houlihan, RSM, now deals with flustered patients, distressed families and friends, and the daily chaos of a hospital emergency room. Sister Patricia recently made the leap from 53 years as a Catholic school principal to a position as the new volunteer patient liaison in the emergency department at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany. “The positions are Less