Our Lady’s Missionaries in Guyana

By Jean MacInnis
April 2000

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Sister Cecile Turner and Sister Doris MacDonell, both of Our Lady’s Missionaries, have shared their love and talents here in Guyana for the past six years. They are our security blanket and our very good friends, not just to the Scarboro mission team, but to a great many residents here in New Amsterdam.

The Sisters are very capable nurses, experts at ouchless needles and stitch removal. I know, I have personally tested them out. They attend to the health care needs of residents at three seniors homes. As well, many sick and elderly persons are cared for in their homes by the Sisters who do dressings, monitor the taking of medication or bring in a doctor when needed. Their health care ministry includes, too, the residents at Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity Home for orphans and for senior men. They also nurse and encourage the patients at the National Psychiatric Hospital. They are ‘on call’ to the Scarboro Missions team and to the many residents of New Amsterdam.

Blessed are you...

Blessed are you who take time to listen to defective speech
for you help us to know that if we persevere
we can be understood

Blessed are you who walk with us in public places
and ignore the stares of strangers
for in your companionship
we find havens of relaxation

Blessed are you who never bid us “Hurry up”
and more blessed are you who do not snatch our tasks
from our hands to do them for us

Blessed are you who stand beside us
as we enter new ventures
for our failures will be outweighed by times
when we surprise ourselves and you

Blessed are you who ask for our help
for our greatest need is to be needed

Blessed are you who, by all these things
assure us that what makes us individuals
is not our peculiar muscles
nor our wounded nervous system
but the God-given self that no infirmity can confine

Blessed are you...

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