Covid Update within Maryknoll - Celebrating Life

As of Sunday, 4/19/2020, I am not aware of any Maryknoll Lay Missioners or Affiliates who have tested positive for Covid-19.  Sadly, that is not the case for the Maryknoll Sisters, Fathers & Brothers.  Many in the Congregation and Society have been infected with the virus and several have passed on to new life.  So many elderly Sisters became symptomatic (without adequate testing it is difficult to know for sure if it’s coronavirus) that the Sisters’ leadership team had to make the decision to send 27 Sisters to a nursing home in Manhattan for more extensive care. Due to HIPAA regulations, the list of those with Covid-19 has not been given.

Please keep in your heart and prayers the following Congregation and Society members who have died since February.                             

Congregation

Sr Joan Berninger

Sr. Veronica Mary Martin

Sr. Madeline Giusto

Sr. Rose Christopher McKeegan

Sr. Patricia Noble

Sr. Virginia Farrell

Sr. Frances Calcaterra

Society                                                                           

Fr. Ernest Brunelle                                                     

Fr. Richard Ouellette                                         

Fr. Gerry McCrane                                                    

Br. Don Mariani                                         

Fr. Don McGinnis                          

Fr. Brendan O’Connell

Fr. John Hudert

In our sadness, we express our heartfelt gratefulness for the service of these good people and for the unique expression of love they each brought into our world.

''The task of a missionary is to go to a place where he is not wanted but needed, and to remain until he is not needed but wanted.''  (James Edward Walsh)