The Medical Missionary magazine in its 1970 Fall edition relates how the Ernest Oppenheimer Hospital in Welkom, South Africa, 'challenged the creativity of Medical Mission Sisters', when they agreed to staff it for the Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa in 1951.
According to the Medical Missionary magazine, September - October 1959:
“June 11, 1959, was a Red Letter Day for the Medical Mission Sisters. On that day, our Holy Father, Pope John XXIII, granted the Decretum Laudis to the Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries. As the Society is the first ex-professo Medical Mission Sisterhood, it may be of interest to trace the steps from its erection as a PIOUS SOCIETY to Papal Approval …”
THE RAWALPINDI MEDICAL MISSON TO INDIA
Twenty Fifth Anniversary, 1937
The Society’s founder, Dr Anna Dengel, shows us in her own words how to use a jubilee year creatively
In 1937, in the Medical Missionary magazine, Anna Dengel wrote:
The Medical Missionary magazine in 1964 describes the Feast of Epiphany as follows:
At Christmas, when cribs abound around the world, we share with you some of those most special to the Medical Mission Sisters.
Let’s go back to the year 1948, when this article appeared in the Medical Missionary magazine:
The 1953 edition of the Medical Missionary magazine has images and text which show how Advent was lived in the community in North America that year.
As ever, it was a time of making Advent wreaths and filling every nook and cranny with greenery, a time of joyful anticipation and meditation, including on the prophecy of Isaiah, and a time when all were called, “Prepare ye His ways."
The wreath, which held a place of honour during the four weeks of Advent, symbolised the 4,000 years of expectation.
On this day when Medical Mission Sisters and Associates in Unit North America are gathering to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday together, and a turkey dinner, we are displaying a picture of what is called a radio phonograph. This gift was presented to Anna Dengel by the Dutch sisters to give thanks on the occasion when an honorary degree was awarded to her by the University of Nijmegen in The Netherlands in November 1958.
When Society Coordinator, Sister Agnes Lanfermann, and the Society Leadership Team returned from Kulmasa, Northern Ghana, where the Centenary year was launched on 30th September 2024, they recalled how joyful the inauguration of the new family clinic had been.
1968 will be remembered as a year that brought significant change within the Catholic Church after Vatican II urged, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, renewal to make it increasingly faithful to the Gospel of Christ.
The dedication, Causa Nostrae Laetitia (Cause of Our Joy), is written by hand by Anna Dengel.
