This year from April 14 -20 we celebrate National Volunteer Week. This provides an opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the many volunteers who give their time, empathy, energy and service to our communities and our world.
The theme for this year is Every Moment Matters. This theme highlights the importance of every volunteer and recognizes the vital part volunteers play in creating and sustaining relationships, in community-building and in their overall contribution to the well-being of individuals and communities.
Este año, del 14 al 20 de abril, celebramos la Semana Nacional del Voluntariado. Es una oportunidad para reconocer y celebrar a los muchos voluntarios que dedican su tiempo, empatía, energía y servicio a nuestras comunidades y a nuestro mundo.
El tema de este año es Cada Momento Importa. Este tema destaca la importancia de cada voluntario y reconoce el papel vital que desempeñan los voluntarios en la creación y el mantenimiento de relaciones, en la construcción de comunidades y en su contribución general al bienestar de las personas y las comunidades.
Our sisters and brothers in these areas and in other parts of our world are experiencing profound suffering on a daily basis. In his Easter message, Pope Francis urged the world to resist “the logic of weapons” and made a strong appeal for Gaza’s access to humanitarian aid and for an immediate ceasefire in the area.
She was received into the novitiate and given the name Sister M. Camillus Joseph on the feast of Our Lady of Mercy in the same year. Her novitiate companions were Sister M. Ligouri Carmody and Sister M. Ignatius Guinane, two young women from Limerick, Ireland, along with another Newfoundlander, Sister M. Clare Tarrahan, who haentered the community a year earlier.
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