Mission Presentations
January 2010

Medical Mission Sister Barbara Brigham addressed students in the Medical Careers Academy at Archbishop Wood High School.  Sister Barbara shared with the students how she witnessed to her Catholic faith while serving as a medical professional in India and Peru. 

St. Philip Neri PREP in Lafayette Hill prepared for Lent by listening to the HCA Mission Education Coordinator describe their role in Mission.  The children promised to remember in prayer the families and Missionaries of Senegal, our country of focus this Lenten season.

Members of the PREP at Immaculate Conception Parish in Jenkintown celebrated the Feast of the Epiphany with a Mission prayer service.  Maureen Rilling, HCA Mission Coordinator, told the children how they could bring gifts to Jesus through their prayers and sacrifices for the Missions.

Advent 2009

Krista Goebel, an eighth grader at Immaculate Conception School in Jenkintown, was recognized in the 2008-2009 HCA Christmas Artwork Contest.  Krista’s design (above) was one of 24 selected from 10,000 entries in this national contest, and was featured as an e-greeting on the HCA website for kids, www.hcakids.org.  Pictured below are Krista and her family with Monsignor John E. Kozar, the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States, after the December 11, 2009 Mass at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

HCA Mission Education Coordinator Maureen Rilling visited Holy Trinity School in Morrisville and Saint Bridget School in Philadelphia as the students prepared for Advent.  Mrs. Rilling reminded the children that just as they were waiting for Jesus, many young people in Mission Dioceses were preparing to hear the Christmas story for the first time.  Children at these two schools joined other HCA members in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and across the United States in praying in a special way for families and Missionaries in Nepal during Advent.

Second graders from Saint Bridget School in Philadelphia offer
the traditional Nepali greeting, “Namaste.”

November 2009
Sister Marie Janesch, MSC and Sister Nanette Wisser, MSC shared stories and artifacts from their experience in Mission in Namibia with the children at St. Patrick PREP in Malvern.

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