Students from the Universityof North Carolina in Chapel Hill choose
Alternate Spring Break Good Works
For the fourth year in a row, Alternate Spring Break Good Works drew students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to Philadelphia where they enjoyed hospitality at the Medaille Center and Mount Saint Joseph Convent.
From March 6 through 12, the students served as tutors and worked in after school programs to assist students at four urban schools: La Salle Academy, Our Mother of Sorrows/Saint Ignatius, Saint Hugh, and Visitation. They also spent time helping at Our Mother of Sorrows Soup Kitchen. Ariel Nogales and Steve Burges served as UNC student leaders and Sisters Kathy Claflin, Frances Hart and Rose Andrea Loughery made sure all pieces of the students service week came together.
UNC students joined the Motherhouse community
at Mount Saint Joseph Convent Chapel
for the Sunday Celebration of Eucharist.
One of the group’s evening gatherings included a visit to Elizabeth House where Sister Mary Beth Hamm gave a presentation on Immigration. On another evening the team met for dinner and conversation with SSJ Mission Corps Volunteers Caitlin, Jackie and Mary Beth, who shared stories of their experience of giving not a week – but a year – of service.
Sister Rose said, “Alternate Spring Break Good Works gives us the opportunity to share our SSJ Mission. These UNC students see our mission in action as they carry out their good works, and we are amazed as we witness the generous spirit of these young adults. We are enriched by the reflections they share about all that the experience comes to mean to them.”
Sisters Mary Corbet and Margaret Mary O'Connell, participated in a prayer of blessing led by Sister Kathy Claflin as the UNC group prepared to head home.
