On the Feast of the Sacred Heart, the Cabrini Lay Missionaries (CLMs) renew their commitment to embrace the charism of St. Cabrini and to growth in the Cabrini Missionary Identity. This year, at The Cottage in Radnor, PA, CLM Melanie Paccillo renewed her commitment as a CLM for three more years. It was a joy and an honor to witness Melanie’s recommitment. Blessings and thanks, Melanie, for the ways in which you are ‘a bearer of the love of Christ in the world’.
Celebrating Our Diverse Cultures
Cabrini of Westchester’s Cultural Awareness Committee organized a special day to recognize the many cultures and ethnicities that make up the unique staff at Cabrini of Westchester! On June 20, 2019, employees were invited to wear their native attire for a multi-cultural parade. The events also included a multicultural food tasting! Thank you to the committee for the hard work and dedication in preparing for this wonderful day and to all those who participated!
The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Tomorrow, on the Feast of the Sacred Heart, we pause to consider that within every religious tradition there is such a variety of ideas and images that individuals tend to gravitate towards those that attract them or provide particular meaning. For Frances Cabrini, it was the human heart of the suffering crucified Christ that resonated strongly within. She saw expressed in the image of ‘The Sacred Heart of Jesus’, the love and kindness of the unseen God, his passion for all creation, and his chosen capacity to share in and ultimately redeem the suffering in the world.
The significance of heart symbolism to Frances cannot be overestimated. The motivation and the energy welling up within her came from a passionate love for God and a deep compassion for those in great distress – something which led her to profound self-sacrifice. Above everything else, she was motivated by love and inspired by a vision of loving that knew no bounds. Seeing herself as a sacred offering in the service of others, she felt called to make up for, in some small way, the heartlessness of the world.
Mother Cabrini came to recognize, in the person of Jesus Christ what could only be described as ‘Love itself’. She had known from the very beginning that this would be the most important relationship of her life. She recognized that within the heart was the foundation of all meaningful activity and the place of ultimate decision about the orientation of a person’s life. ~ Mark Davis, A Passionate Life
The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a most hallowed and celebratory day for the Missionary Sisters and the Cabrini Lay Missionaries (CLMs). It is on this day that the Sisters renew their vows and the CLMs renew their commitment. Let us ask God’s blessing upon them, that they may be strengthened in their dedication to be “bearers of Christ’s love in the world.”
Cabrini University Announces Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program
Cabrini University announces the establishment of a new Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program after being granted approval by the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing (PASBON).
The program is slated to begin in fall 2020. Applications will open Aug. 1, 2019.
“Our new Nursing program complements Cabrini’s robust academic offerings in the sciences,” said University President Donald B. Taylor, PhD. “As the need for nurses continues to increase, Cabrini nurses will thrive as essential members of complex and diverse healthcare systems.”
The timing of Cabrini’s Nursing program coincides with an expected escalation in the demand for nurses: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects remarkable growth for the nursing profession over the next decade—15 percent from 2016 to 2026.
Cabrini Nursing majors will be admitted directly into the program and take discipline-specific courses starting in their first year. Students will gain immediate insight into the theories and concepts essential to nursing practice, professionalism, and their roles as members of interprofessional healthcare teams. Cabrini’s coursework will prepare graduates to pass the NCLEX-RN examination, which is required of all registered nurses.
In addition to their community and acute care off-campus clinical experiences, students in Cabrini’s BSN program will benefit from a state-of-the-art Clinical Simulation Center (CSC). This innovative learning environment will allow students to enhance the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they garner in their classroom and off-campus clinical experiences. The CSC will optimize students’ ability to refine their skills in order to foster confident, collaborative leaders in nursing practice. These on-campus clinical simulations, as well as off-campus clinical experiences in diverse community and healthcare settings, will provide students experiential learning opportunities in order to develop sound clinical judgment skills.
“The Cabrini Nursing program is positioned to collaborate with innovative healthcare systems and impactful community partners,” said Jennifer Specht, PhD, RN, Founding Director of Cabrini’s Nursing program. “Our graduates will be prepared to competently practice and thrive in complex healthcare environments. They will develop leadership skills which will allow them to inform and influence education, policy, and practice in nursing and healthcare.”
To learn more: https://www.cabrini.edu/about/media-hub/news/2019/cabrini-establishes-bachelor-of-science-in-nursing-program
The Greenlight Bill has been Signed into Law
On Monday night, we watched as New York made history by becoming the 13th state to provide access to driver’s licenses to all residents, regardless of immigration status. Now all of our immigrant community members will be able to drive to work, drop their kids off at school, and get medical care without fearing being separated from their family. We are proud to have been part of this long and difficult campaign to restore access to drivers licenses for our community members and are thankful to the many advocates who never gave up over 18 years of organizing. Over the past few months our community leaders and members have hosted letter writing and calling drives, shared their stories, and travelled around the city and state to attend rallies and speak to elected officials. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this incredible victory!
The new law will go into effect 180 days after Governor Cuomo signed it, on December 14th, 2019. You can learn a little bit more about what this will look like and the protections included in the lawhere. We will be working over the coming months to ensure our community members receive the information they need about the new law — If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out!
We look forward to continuing to work with you in the coming months and years towards more victories for our immigrant community!
En la lucha,
The Staff at Cabrini Immigrant Services – NYC
Sharing International Friendships and Cuisine
Back in January on the feast of the Epiphany, those of us at the Cabrini Retreat Center shared with you the Archdiocesan celebration of National Migration Week at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. As part of that celebration the Office for Immigration chose to extend that celebration with an international “pot-luck” dinner for the numerous participants representing the diverse cultures of immigrants here in the archdiocese.
On Sunday, June 16, those participants gathered at Casa Italia to share fellowship and their national cuisine with one another. When registering, participants were asked to list the name of the dish they would bring and what nationality it represented. Sr. Cathy Fedewa, CSFN, from Cabrini Retreat Center, in Des Plaines, IL, listed her country as U.S.A. and so brought a typical picnic dish, pasta salad.
It was a great celebration, and the foods from Guatemala, Philippines, India, Mexico, etc. were a big hit with all the participants and an opportunity to share their diverse cultures from a different perspective. It was also a meaningful way to begin the week celebrating World Refugee Day on June 20.
Cabrini Mission Foundation Celebrates 20th Anniversary
On Thursday, June 6, 2019 Cabrini Mission Foundation celebrated 20 years of service with a gala at New York’s prestigious Metropolitan Club. Reverend Monsignor Gregory Mustaciuolo and Sister Lucille Souza, MSC were honored for their missionary spirit and service to immigrants, women, and children in need. Both honorees were joined by their family members.
Approximately 300 guests were in attendance including his Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan. They were treated to a cocktail hour featuring live harp, violin, and cello music. The marble hall was filled with happy conversation and music. Following a cocktail hour guests entered the main dining room and enjoyed a three-course dinner.
Joe Piscopo, renouned comedian and musician was master of ceremonies. What a hit! He entertained everyone with jokes and two Frank Sinatra songs. We were so lucky to have him with our guests for the evening.
We are so grateful to everyone who sponsored or attended this wonderful event. It was an incredible success because of the generosity of our friends and supporters.
To see more photos from the Cabrini Mission Foundation 20th Anniversary Gala: http://bit.ly/CMFGalaAlbum
To see the journal from the 20th Anniversary Gala: https://cabrinifoundation.org/events/20th-anniversary-gala-e-journal
June 20th is World Refugee Day
World Refugee Day 2019 is on June 20th. This is an annual event, held on the same date each year, and 2019 is the 19th year of the event, run by the United Nations Refugee Agency, to state that the world supports and stands with refugees. The event is about raising global awareness of global responsibility for refugees.
World Refugee Day honors the strength and courage of refugees and encourages public awareness and support of the refugees, people who have had to flee their home lands because of conflict or natural disaster.
Refugees are vulnerable and in need, and are often misunderstood and maligned, and often have very little or nothing of their possessions and little food, they often have to leave their homes with nothing or with what they can carry. They suffer cold, hunger, trauma, despair, disease, violence and loss. The awareness day is to help public understanding of refugees as well as raising support and help.
Across the world, agencies, both governmental and non-governmental, work tirelessly to help refugees, but with people being made refugees daily, more help and awareness is constantly needed, to ensure that refugees are treated fairly and provided for, rather than being neglected or shunned, and there are projects to re-settle and provide for refugees. So World Refugee Day highlights all of this.
The United Nations Refugee Agency and thousands of civic groups around the globe host events to raise awareness of the plight of refugees.
It is observed in more than 100 countries and involves government officials, humanitarian workers, celebrities, civilians and refugees. This year’s theme is Global Compact on Refugees.
Background
Every minute, 20 people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution or terror. There are several types of forcibly displaced persons:
Refugees
A refugee is someone who fled his or her home and country owing to “a well-founded fear of persecution because of his/her race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion”, according to the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention. Many refugees are in exile to escape the effects of natural or human-made disasters.
Asylum Seekers
Asylum seekers say they are refugees and have fled their homes as refugees do, but their claim to refugee status is not yet definitively evaluated in the country to which they fled.
Internally Displaced Persons
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are people who have not crossed an international border but have moved to a different region than the one they call home within their own country.
Stateless Persons
Stateless persons do not have a recognized nationality and do not belong to any country.
Statelessness situations are usually caused by discrimination against certain groups. Their lack of identification — a citizenship certificate — can exclude them from access to important government services, including health care, education or employment.
Bishops Debate Extent of Lay Involvement in Sex Abuse Response
~ Michael O’ Loughlin, America, The Jesuit Review
Preliminary discussion about proposals aimed at bishop accountability evinced some frustration among U.S. bishops at their spring general assembly this week in Baltimore, especially when it comes to the degree of lay involvement that can be mandated to be a part of the process. Bishops expressed their intention to adopt protocols aimed at accountability, but they are still hammering out the details ahead of a vote on Thursday.
Bishop Robert P. Deeley, who heads the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops committee on canonical affairs and church governance, told the assembly that any rules they adopt cannot exceed a policy promulgated by Pope Francis last month in the moto propio “Vos estis lux mundi.” In that document, the Vatican decreed that allegations of sexual abuse or misconduct, as well as mismanagement leveled against a bishop must be investigated by a metropolitan bishop or someone he appoints, or by a senior suffragan bishop if the metropolitan is accused. It suggests that bishops rely on lay experts to carry out the investigation but stops short of mandating lay involvement. Several U.S. bishops have said that as a result, they cannot mandate lay involvement in their own protocols. Some bishops sought reassurance that lay people will be involved in every stage of future investigations.
“A number of us are looking for ways to insert into the plan more robust lay involvement,” Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego told the plenary group. He asked if the USCCB could adopt a rule that says that anyone enlisted to examine allegations of misconduct or mismanagement by a bishop “needs to be a lay investigator.”
Bishop Deeley said no.
“We have said that he ‘should’ use lay people, the bishop said, but added, “we cannot say ‘must.’”
The possibility that bishops would have the option of handling claims of misconduct or mismanagement without the involvement of lay people troubled Franceco Cesareo.
To read the full account: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/06/11/bishops-debate-extent-lay-involvement-sex-abuse-response
Calls for Greater Lay Involvement as Church Tackles Abuse
~ Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service
National Review Board chairman Francesco Cesareo offered the U.S. bishops meeting in Baltimore a series of recommendations that he said will strengthen the church’s response to the ongoing clergy sexual abuse crisis.
The recommendations made June 11 during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ spring general assembly in Baltimore included a call for a greater role for
laity investigating allegations of abuse or reaction to reports of abuse against bishops.
Cesareo said that National Review Board members recommend a thorough review of the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” and a revision in the audit process regarding diocesan implementation of the charter, which governs the church’s response to clergy abuse allegations.
Strong measure are necessary to show that while progress has been made since the charter’s adoption in 2002, the bishops would demonstrate that they are serious in their response to clergy abuse in response to the mistrust and serious questions laypeople still harbor.
Cesareo stressed to the bishops the need to carry out what Pope Benedict XVI described as the laity’s co-responsibility to help build the church.
He told the Catholic News Service that co-responsibility means “together we can have a role to play for the well-being of the church.”
Cesareo also admitted that he has used strong and firm language in delivering the review board’s recommendations “to show the urgency of the situation and that we can’t just keep pushing this down the road.”
In his address to the assembly, Cesareo said that the audit is a means for the bishops to establish their credibility with laypeople.
“A strengthened audit would provide a means for improving your dioceses’ existing methods to protect and heal,” Cesareo said. “Virtually all your dioceses, including those where problems came to light under the microscope of the media and attorney generals, have easily passed the audit for years since the bar is so low. Now is the time to raise the bar on compliance to ensure the mistakes of the past are not repeated.”
Casareo also recommended that the charter “should be revised immediately to explicitly include bishops and demand for greater accountability.”
“You have a great opportunity,” Casareo said, “to lead by example and help show diocese and episcopal conferences around the world not only how important it is for lay involvement to ensure greater accountability and transparency, but also how laity and the episcopacy can be co-responsible for the church’s well-being.”
To read the entire account: https://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2019/cesareo-repeats-call-for-greater-lay-involvement-as-church-tackles-abuse.cfm
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