Homabay, 14 December, 2023 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception of Ivrea (SCIC/Ivrea Sisters) have been lauded for the “ministry to the sick” during their 50 years of service in the East African nation.
In his homily during the Golden Jubilee celebration of the sisters at our Lady of Fatima Verna Health Centre, Bishop Michael Cornelius Odiwa of the Catholic Diocese of Homa Bay also lauded the congregation for transforming the Parish and the neighborhood through health services.
“The Job of nurses is to open the eyes of the newly born and also close their eyes when they depart to the creator. This is the work that Ivrea Sisters came here to do from 1973 to date,” Bishop Odiwa said in his Thursday, December 14 homily.
The Local Ordinary of the Kenyan Diocese that was first to receive the Sisters’ congregation added, “We therefore have a reason to thank God for this ministry to the sick.”
The congregation was founded by the Italian Catholic Nun, Antonia María Verna, and recognized with civil approval in 1828. It received diocesan ecclesiastical approval in 1835, and pontifical approval in 1904.