Fall 2012

Mercy Northeast  page 1  Fall 2012 Theologian, Sister Barbara Fiand, speaks at Northeast annual gathering Nearly 250 sisters and associates from across the Northeast gathered in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Saturday, September 8, to hear Barbara... More

Mercy Northeast  page 1  Fall 2012 Theologian, Sister Barbara Fiand, speaks at Northeast annual gathering Nearly 250 sisters and associates from across the Northeast gathered in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Saturday, September 8, to hear Barbara Fiand, SNDdeN, give a talk entitled, Seeing with New Eyes. Sister Lindora Cabral, president of the Community, welcomed those gathered and thanked the spirituality committee and members of the Northeast staff for their work in putting the event together. She also told those gathered that the event was being broadcast via live stream on the internet for sisters who could not travel and who watched from their own homes and/or gathering places throughout the Northeast. According to Kim Cardin, manager of information technology for the Northeast, there were 128 separate connections to the live event. At least 40 sisters gathered at the motherhouse in Albany to watch the event together. During her introduction, Lind Less