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February
Volume 10
9,
&
2001
Number
22
Serving Catholics
in
Western North Carolina
in
the Diocese of Charlotte
Inside Sisters continue Robert
remembered
outreach with charisms of
as veteran
mercy, charity
Gately
newsman ...Page
By JOANITA M.
NELLENBACH
Correspondent
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ROSMAN
— The
directions are
simple: Right after Victory Baptist Church, put your blinker on when you
come
And, around the curve to the right is the sign for the Frances Warde Health to the 45-mile-per-hour sign.
Aid
then, just
reaching
Service.
Indian
earthquake survivors
.
poor;
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...Page
Turn up the driveway and into the parking lot. The rocking chair is out front, and the "Welcome" sign on the door greets around 100 patients a week. A lot of those patients are the elderly
many
are children.
Warde
Health Service. Grants come from various sources such as foundations. A recent grant from the Sisters of Mercy of Belmont, N.C., for instance, will pay the salaries of the nursing staff this year. Medicare pays 80 percent of treatment
News
cost for patients eligible for that benefit.
Diocesan high schools
all or part of the remaining 20 percent, whatever they can afford, of
Patients pay
show sporting spirit ...Page
Asheville
Warde
Grants, donations and fees charged for services fund the Frances
Local
Photo by Joanita M. Nellenbach
Sister Carol Hoban, SC, family nurse practitioner at the Frances Health Service, consults with patient Brenda McCall.
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their treatment cost.
The
clinic subsi-
dizes about 45 percent of
its
patients
from such sources as the Good Samaritan Fund, the repository for all donations Frances Warde receives.
man answers
The
calltodiaconate
has a patient assis-
clinic also
tance program, in which drug companies provide medicines for patients
...Page
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who
principal
troit, said.
munity had
Mercy
Gretchen Hermanny, M.D., and Sister Jacquie founded the Frances Warde Health Service 18 years ago in nearby Balsam Grove. In a way, they were following in the footsteps of Sister Frances Warde, leader of the first group of Sisters of Mercy to come the United States. They arrived in America in 1843 and spent their lives founding Sister
hospitals, schools,
homes
for
orphanages and
women.
Sister Gretchen's specialty
nal medicine. Jersey, she
A
Sister of
is
inter-
Mercy of New
had researched regions that
are below a certain level of income, don't
were medically underserviced and de-
and have no health
cided that this area near Brevard in ru-
qualify for Medicaid,
insuranc e that pays for drugs.
What would
it
mean not
to
have the
program
a
called
New
Foundations that put people with the poor. Gretchen had finished her boards and was ready to go. She called me and " asked if I wanted to go. I said 'Sure.' They arrived in November 1983 and for the first 10 days lived in a travel trailer with no electricity or running water. 'We had a gas stove," Sister Jacquie said. 'We did a lot by candlelight, and we went to bed early." Father Joseph Mulligan (now pastor of St. Luke Church in Mint Hill) had recently been assigned as pastor of Sacred Hart Church in Brevard, and he helped them find a house that could serve as home and clinic.
"He was a great
ral Transylvania County was the place where she wanted to work. She called a
friend, Sister Jacquie, a
clinic available?
*" and pastoral minister. "I wanted something that was with the poor," Sister Jacquie said. "Our com-
'They'd owe doctors a lot of money, or they wouldn't go and they'd be dead," Mercy Sister Jacqueline Dewar of De-
help," Sister Jacquie
See SISTERS, page
former teacher,
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{very Week Entertainment
Editorials
.Pages
10-11
...Pages
12-13
Celebrating
& Columns
have called you by name mine.
"
— you
are
By
ALESHA M. PRICE Staff Writer
Blessed are you who are poor, for the
kingdom of God
yours. Blessed are you
are hungry, foryou satisfied.
-Luke
will
6:
HIGH POINT
— On
the Feast of
the Presentation of the Lord, a is
who be
20-21
commu-
Nursing Home resiPoor Servants of the Mother of
nity of Maryfield
dents, the
God
Sisters that staff the residential care
and nursing home facility, other men and women religious and area supporters gathered to celebrate the commitment many have made to ministry
honor of the World Day for Consecrated Life was held in the chapel at Maryfield Nursing Home in High Point on Feb. 2. According to information from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference (NCCB/USCC), the day, commissioned by the pope, has been observed in dioceses across the country for the past
Mass
in
several years to
Christ including diocesan and order priests,
rooted in the Lord.
A
Isaiah 43:1
life in
commemorate those
men and women who have answered God's call. All men and women religious,
live a consecrated life
— one
in
which
they pledge their lives to God through the profession of the three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Al-
though diocesan
priests
do not neces-
vows of poverty, chasand obedience, they do commit to
sarily take the tity
and celibate lives in service and the diocese. Although Feb. 2 is the day designated for the worldwide celebration, since the day fell on Friday this year,
lead simple
to their bishop
See
CELEBRATING,
page
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