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Submitted by SR. MARY RAPHAEL PARADIS, RSM
JACKSON--Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center in Jackson, an apostolate of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, MI, has announced to Bishop Quinn and its patients and many friends that it will close its doors on November 16, 2018. Sanford Health, at its local site of Sanford Jackson Clinic, has graciously accepted Sacred Heart’s invitation to take any patients who desire to transfer care to its providers. Mother Mary McGreevy, RSM, the superior general of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, MI, stated recently: The Sisters came to Jackson at the kind invitation of Clair Gilmore and several other prominent local citizens, to administer and staff Jackson Hospital in January 1981. Our convent was officially established with the permission of Bishop Loras J. Watters in the spring of 1981. The Sisters provided and stabilized services in the areas of hospital and nursing administration, nursing and respiratory therapy. In 1985, we purchased our Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center building from the City of Jackson for our medical services, and are especially grateful to Dr. Paul Wright, MD, who practiced from 1982 to 1996 at Sacred Heart. With the completion of her residency in Family Medicine in July, 1996, Sister Marie Paul Lockerd, RSM, DO, started her practice at Sacred Heart. We are especially grateful to Dr. Wright and to Dr. Lockerd for their longterm commitments to providing Catholic health care in Jackson. The field of health care has changed dramatically in recent years. In November, 2009, Sacred Heart entered into an affiliation agreement with Sanford Health as independent contractors, in order to have access to an electronic health record system as mandated by law. We have decided to close Sacred Heart due to the increasing administrative complexity of running a small medical practice. On behalf of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, I wish to convey our deep gratitude to the people of this area, our wonderful staff and patients.
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MAPLEWOOD--The Benedictine Center is issuing a call to Minnesota artists to participate in its eighth annual juried art show planned for January 30, thru March 2, 2019. Submissions are due January 16. Awards totaling $375 will be distributed to the top winners. The award for first place is $150; $125 for second; $100 for third. Winners will be announced at the official reception on January 30. Called Seeing God, this juried art show provides a venue for artists who think deeply about their work and whose creativity helps viewers experience the Divine. Benedictine Center Director Sam Rahberg said, “We believe art can be an interpretive lens into the mystery of God, so we are looking for works that capture that deep sense of wonder.” Contest rules, guidelines and submission form can be found at https://benedictinecenter.secure.retreat. guru/program/2019-juried-exhibit/. Or contact Artist/ Coordinator Kathy Fleming at 612-839-4439 or fleming450@ gmail.com. The Benedictine Center’s Seeing God art show has attracted about 200 local artists in its seven-year history. Its goals are to encourage artists in their ability to give form to God’s revelation in human life, nature and the cosmos; and to show how arts can expand our capacity to encounter God. The Benedictine Center is a ministry of the Benedictine Sisters of St. Paul’s Monastery, which is located at 2675 Benet Road in Maplewood.
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topic and are usually regional. For example, next year there will be a Special Synod on the Pan-Amazonian Region. Instrumentum Laboris is Latin for “working document.” It is developed before the meeting by a small working committee of Vatican officials and diocesan bishops, and frames synod discussions. During a synod, bishops make comments and observations on the working document, and meet in small discussion groups to propose changes to the text, or to suggest new texts and additional areas for consideration. A Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation is a document produced by the pope after synod assembly concludes. It generally reflects the recommendations made by the synod in its final document submitted to the pope, along with his own reflections. The most recent post-synodal apostolic exhortation was Amoris Laetitia, which was released after the 2015 Synod on the Family. New rules for the 2018 Synod of Bishops say that the pope may approve, as a part of the Church’s magisterium, the final report from the synod fathers instead of producing a separate exhortation. It is not yet determined whether Pope Francis will do this at the conclusion of the synod. Synod Fathers are the bishops and others who participate and vote in a synod. Auditors are people appointed by the pope to participate in synod discussions and interventions within the synod hall, but without a vote on documents. Laypeople and women religious participate in the synod as auditors. In a historic first, the 2018 Synod of Bishops has invited 34 young people participating as auditors. Circoli Minori are small discussion groups in which synod participants who speak a common language work together to produce a report on each section of the working document, along with modi, or proposals, to be included in the final document. At the 2018 Synod of Bishops, there are 14 language groups - four in English, three French groups, three Italian, two Spanish, one German group, and one Portuguese. Synodality is generally understood to represent a process of discernment, with the aid of the Holy Spirit, involving bishops, priests, religious, and lay Catholics, each according to the gifts and charisms of their vocation. This phrase has been emphasized in Pope Francis’ pontificate. In May, the International Theological Commission released a document on Synodality in Life and Mission of the Church.
Sacred Heart Benedictine Mercy Health Center Issues Care Center Call to Artists to Close
We are grateful to Bishop Quinn, the diocese and the Winona-Rochester guild of the Catholic Medical Association for their support and encouragement of our ministries, especially in the areas of teaching natural family planning, ethical medical treatment of women’s health issues, and morally acceptable palliative/end of life care. The Sisters of Mercy charism and presence will remain in the diocese, centered at Immaculate Heart of Mary Convent in Winona. Sr. Mary Raphael Paradis, RSM is the administrator of Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center in Jackson.
November, 2018 w The Courier