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Family Visit Educational Module

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We are so happy that you will be joining us soon!  Please view each of the following documents and complete the quiz. We have also attached the consent form that you will be given when you sign in.  God bless you! How to Don and Doff a Face Mask How to Don and Doff an Isolation Gown How to Don and Doff Gloves Social Distancing Hand Hygiene Respiratory Hygiene and Cough Etiquette Education Module Quiz                      In-Room Visit Checklist              COVID-19 Visitor Consent Form             
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Sister M. Anselma's letter

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Dear Family and Friends! I write to you on this beautiful, sunny Feast of Our Mother of Good Counsel, April 26th! I am so grateful to Mary, as we continue to experience the miracles of her guidance and protection (along with St. Joseph!) during these challenging times. I am constantly comforted by the fact that we have friends in heaven who are watching over us and helping us! It has now been more than a month and a half since we have seen your smiling faces… and we miss you all so very much!! We are so ready for a great big, family party!! But that will still have to wait a bit. It was March 10th that we went on visitor restrictions and started this very painful process of isolating our Home in order to protect from the deadly COVID-19 virus. But I do not want to talk much about the virus itself. We are all well-enough educated as we watch the news every day. It is enough to say that we have worked to understand as much as scientifically possible in order to make the...
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St. Joseph the Worker

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The Feast of St. Joseph the Worker is May 1st A worker produces something. A worker provides something. A father provides for his family. Provides not only food but something else. This St. Joseph did to the nth degree. But this is getting a bit ahead…let’s take a quick look at the When and the Why of this feast. May 1 was the celebration of “May Day” by the Communists. To counter this secular celebration of what work meant to them, in 1955 Venerable God Pope Pius XII instituted this feast of St. Joseph the Worker. It also had another main purpose — to increase devotion to the saint who was the model of workers, providing for his wife Mary and foster son Jesus. It also reminded about the dignity of work. In 2005 Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI noted: “It is necessary to live a spirituality that helps believers to sanctify themselves through their work, imitating St Joseph, who had to provide with his own hands for the daily needs of the Holy Family and whom, consequently, the Chu...
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