Celebrating Mercy Day at Mercy University Hospotal, Cork, were Rev Pat McCarthy (MUH Chaplain), Michael Bradley (Nurse), Annie O’Neill (Social Work), Bishop Fintan Gavin, Diana Rodrigues (Nurse) and Rev Declan Brennan (OSA)The values of a hospital are the values of the people who work in the hospital, Bishop Fintan Gavin has said as he celebrated Mass for Mercy Day at Mercy University Hospital in Cork.
“It’s the values of the people that patients meet and experience when they come into the hospital for treatment and care,” he said.
The Catholic faith which informs these values in a Catholic Hospital, Bishop Fintan said,
is a very practical faith and finds expression in how we meet Christ and respond to him in the other person.
“This is something very public and not simply private. We are called to be as as the Gospel reminds us – “a light for our world” – in other words, people should know our actions and experience our values not just by our words but by our deeds.”
Siobhán Kenny, Values & Culture Lead at MUH, said that Mercy Day Mass is a celebration of Venerable Catherine McAuley who opened the first House of Mercy in Baggot Street, Dublin, in September 1827.
“It is a day celebrated by all Mercy organisations across the globe as a day to pause and reflect on our history of yesterday and our mission of today which is to bring Catherine’s vision to life through caring for the vulnerable and most marginalised in our society," she said.
Together we celebrate all that Mercy University Hospital community is or as Catherine Mc Auley put it “who we are together”, Bishop Fintan said.
“This finds expression in what you do each day in living those core values with one another and for the patients so that we can shine Christ’s light and hope into all around us.”
The Sisters of Mercy Provincial Team (Southern Province), Bishop Fintan Gavin, Margaret McKiernan (CEO, MUH) and Ann Doherty (Chairperson, MUH Board of Directors.
