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The Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood sisters celebrated 60 years of presence in Malaysia recently. In conjunction with our diamond jubilee, let me take you on a whistlestop journey through the past six decades.
Our Lady’s Hospital in Ipoh started operating in 1963, though the sisters were already busy preparing in 1962. The palatial mansion, gifted to the sisters by millionaire philanthropist, the late Mr Foo Yet Kai in 1960 was initially converted into a 32-bed general hospital, the main focus was for poor children.
We continued to be guided by the Spirit, when, in 1990, our sisters in response to the Church’s call for ‘preferential option for the poor’, accepted the invitation from the late Cardinal Soter Fernandez, to serve in Port Klang and the surrounding areas. We tried to provide the means for better education for the children and ministered to deprived families. As the need for counselling grew, a community was opened in Melaka in 2005 at the request of Bishop Paul Tan SJ .
Today all our sisters are in the diocese of Penang, serving in various areas according to the gifts and capacities of the individual sister. Some are in pastoral care, counselling, spiritual direction/spiritual accompaniment, family ministry, a listener, or simply being a friend/companion to the elderly, lonely or sick. However, life is not all about ‘doing’, it is also about the quality of our ‘being’.
The thanksgiving liturgy was beautifully celebrated with an excellent choir, put together by Terezinha, who was once with us. Fr Joseph Stephen CSsR, vicar for religious of the Penang Diocese was the main celebrant. He gave an inspiring homily.
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