Sr. Marie Bosco Wathen, OSU, (right), is happily surprised when Sr. Susan Mary Mudd, OSU, delivers her goody bag from Immaculate Parish. COURTESY OF MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH
Goody bags, visits, remind homebound that they are not forgotten
BY MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH STAFF, SPECIAL TO THE WESTERN KENTUCKY CATHOLIC
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, church ministers have rarely been able to visit their parishioners in nursing homes. Ursuline Sr. Margaret Ann Aull, OSU, coordinator of pastoral care for Immaculate Parish in Owensboro, has instead led an effort to provide goody bags at all the nursing homes where Immaculate members are living.
“Someone had the idea that we should do this for the sisters at the Mount,” Sr. Margaret Ann said. “That made me happy.”
On Sept. 23, 2021, Sr. Margaret Ann and parishioner Linda Rocco brought bags full of treats for each of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph residing in Saint Joseph Villa. Each bag was filled with candy, holy cards, reading material, prayer books, puzzle books and rosaries. Linda’s husband, Steve, made labels for each bag that read, “At Immaculate Parish we are thinking of you and praying for you every day. May you receive all of God’s abundant blessings!”
The three put the bags together and wrote personal cards to all the sisters. They dropped off the bags in the morning and Sr. Susan Mary Mudd, OSU, and Mount employee Pamela Paulin delivered the bags to each sister’s room.
Originally printed in the November 2021 issue of The Western Kentucky Catholic.
