Rosa Mystica Health Mission: Rosa Mystica Health Mission 2008

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Rosa Mystica Health Mission 2008

WHERE WILL THIS YEAR'S MISSION BE?
This year the medical-dental mission will be in the capital town of Sarangani Province, Alabel, where there is no hospital, where poor residents do not have access to proper medical care.

WHEN WILL THE MISSION BE?
The mission will be on August 11-15, 2008. The orientation for volunteers will be on August 10, and the conference will be on August 16.

HOW MANY PATIENTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SERVED THIS YEAR?
The plan is to serve a minimum of 2,000 indigent patients from all ages in Alabel, Sarangani Province.

HOW CAN I HELP THE MISSION?
One can help the mission by volunteering to render free services as a doctor, a dentist, or whatever relevant health service. One can also help by donating medicines, clothes, food for the hungry poor or for the support of the volunteers. Donations can be in cash or in kind.

WHAT DO I GET BY HELPING?
By serving the poor, one can grow in the love of God and can hope for God's mercy and blessings. By serving in the mission, one can get acquainted with fellow Christian doctors, nurses and health professionals, and develop a spiritual friendship that can encourage one in spiritual growth. The conference on moral concerns can strengthen one in the midst of dilemmas in the practiceof the health profession.

HOW DO I SIGN UP FOR THE MISSION?
One can join or support the mission by communicating with the Secretariat at ACIM-Asia Office, 2400 De Dios Street, 9500 General Santos City, Philippines. Or one may call [63] (083) 301 8824. or through mobile phone: +639212990327, or send email to: rosamysticamission@ymail.com.

WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTSTO VOLUNTEER FOR THE MISSION?
The Rosa Mystica Health Mission requires that each volunteer shall be:
1. God-fearing - to observe the Christian principles of healthcare practice.
2. Mature - to expect to serve the poor without any return.
3. Emotionally stable - to endure the inconveniences of the mission without tantrums.
4. Healthy - to withstand the environmental challenges
4. Generous - to give without regretting the loss.
5. Pschologically fit - to serve the suffering without giving way to depression.
6. Spiritually strong - to trust in God's Wisdom and Providence in the face of all suffering witnessed.
7. Charitable - to preach God's love by kind words and actions.
8. Professional - to provide safe, efficient care to the sick. Health professionals must present their credentials (diploma, resume/curriculum vitae, and professional license) for proper evaluation.

WHY SHOULD I HELP THE MISSION?
Charity is a divine friendship between man and God. Like every true and perfect friendship, it extends beyond the person of the friend to all who are his, to all who are related to him. "And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also" (1 John 4:21). We are commanded to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. (cf.: Matt. 19:19).

COME, LET US BE GOOD SAMARITANS.

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Care of the Sick on the Missions

.... We [...] wish at this point to pay the highest tribute of praise to the care taken of the sick, the infirm and afflicted of every kind; We mean hospitals, leprosaries, dispensaries and homes for the aged and for maternity cases, and orphanages. These are to Our eyes the fairest flowers of missionary endeavors; they give us as it were a vision of the Divine Redeemer Himself, Who "went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed." (Acts 10:38)

Such outstanding works of charity are undoubtedly of the highest efficacy in preparing the souls of non-Christians and in drawing them to the faith and to the practice of Christianity; besides, Our Lord said to His Apostles: "Into what city soever you enter, and they receive you... heal the sick that are therein and say to them: the Kingdom of God is come nigh upon you." Luke 10:8-9.

However, the brothers and nuns who feel that they are called to undertake such work must, before leaving their own country, acquire the professional training and knowledge which are today required in these matters. We know that there are nuns with full professional qualifications who have earned well-merited recognition by the special study of loathsome diseases, such as leprosy, and by discovering remedies for them. These and all other missionaries who are giving their service so generously in leper hospitals have Our paternal blessing, and their exalted charity compels Our admiration and praise.

With regard to medicine and surgery, however, it will certainly be advisable to enlist the services of laymen, provided not only that they have taken the necessary degrees for this work, and are willing to leave their homeland in order to help the missionaries, but also that in the matter of faith and morals they leave nothing to be desired.

Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Evangelii praecones, June 2, 1951.

The Social Mission of the Country Doctor

“The Christian doctor, any doctor whose honesty is worthy of this trust, can do much to raise the moral level of the people...”

“Your virtues, your goodness, will not be denied the noblest recompense. God will reveal Himself more fully to you if in the loyalty of your heart you correspond faithfully to His invitations.”
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Accustomed as he is to a life of exhausting effort, the country dweller who cultivates the soil can usually bear discomfort and illness much longer than the city dweller, so that when he calls the doctor, the sickness is, generally speaking, serious, and the pain well-nigh intolerable. Sometimes, too, the elementary and inept remedy which he has ignorantly tried before summoning you has simply aggravated the evil.

And then to your science and ability, your heart must add the balm of delicate understanding, for the very person who in health seemed coarse and hard, perhaps, often becomes in sickness as sensitive as a child, and like a child, feels the need for moral comfort. After the priest, no one better than the doctor can provide this. And thus he earns the confidence of the sick person and of the family, and by that very fact acquires over them and over the whole population a deep influence, and one which is eagerly accepted.

The Christian doctor, any doctor whose honesty is worthy of this trust, can do much to raise the moral level of the people, in restraining or repressing abuses, vices and habits which conscience reproves. The delicate task of preparing the way for the ministrations of the priest, of dissipating prejudices and unreasonable and disastrous apprehensions, not rarely falls to him.

And yet this task, so beautiful for the good it does to your neighbor, is very hard on you. It offers not only a frequent but a continual occasion for self-denial, for troubles and discomforts, often devoid of due appreciation, without gratitude, without equitable recompense. Not rarely, too, the country doctor while dedicating himself wholeheartedly to the sick, feels a sense of loneliness, especially if he cannot have his family with him, if he cannot ensure, in the little out-of-the-way town to which he is perhaps bound, suitable instruction and formation for his children. We therefore express the wish that your just aspirations in the moral and economic orders may receive due satisfaction, to your greater advantage, and that of all to whom you so assiduously lend your service.
And now, beloved sons, look up to heaven, and you will feel the comfort and the light of the divine Doctor of humanity. Your virtues, your goodness, will not be denied the noblest recompense. God will reveal Himself more fully to you if in the loyalty of your heart you correspond faithfully to His invitations.

Allocution to country doctors, September 18, 1950, Pope Pius XII.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

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