Dear Future Mercy Volunteer, First and foremost, congratulations! A year of service is a big commitment, one that has the potential to change your life forever and for the better. I am midway through my second year and I can…
The Catholic Migration Services (CMS) office in Sunnyside Queens offers a variety of services to immigrants in the community who often respond with tears, some of joy and some of anguish. The livelihood for many of these people is fickle…
Every day when I walk into work and turn on the lamp at my desk, I take a moment to look at one of the “decorations” on my corkboard, a note card that I received from a Sister of Mercy…
I cry a lot more than I used to. Maybe the humidity down south causes me to have a surplus of water in my tear ducts and they can't help but leak. (It’s a good thing I wasn’t a biology…
Over the last three months, I have been in the process of retreating from the worldly view of success and attempting to focus on my relationship with God and with others. It is easy for me to say that these…