Guyana

By Summer 2000

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Sr. Doris MacDonell tells of inspiration as she and Sr. Cecile Turner minister in Guyana.

Here, in our Church of the Ascension Parish in New Amsterdam, Guyana, our banner for Jubilee year reads: “Loving God, thank you for the birth of Jesus into our world. Help us in this new time, to bring Good News to the poor, to bind up hearts that are broken and to proclaim liberty to captives, to give sight to the blind and to proclaim the Lord’s year of favour.” (Isaiah 61)

In our ministries to the women patients of the psychiatric hospital, to many sick and lonely persons in their homes, as well as to the residents of three seniors’ homes, we try to live out this Jubilee call. In turn, daily we are made aware of our own fragility and sinfulness while drawn to a deeper trust in a loving God. This helps us to understand yet more clearly that in ministering to these our sisters and brothers, we are invited to a more profound commitment to be Jubilee people.

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