Monthly Archives: January, 2013

Chaplaincy story #1

When I was a Chaplaincy Student, I struggled to find my niche because I was not ordained clergy like many of my classmates and neither was I a nun like so many of my fellow Catholics asked for. What I brought to situations would eventually reveal itself. I was doing an 18 hour overnight shift …

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My time as a Chaplaincy student

When I was a very new nurse, I worked in a large University Medical Center in a Peds ICU. One night we had a baby who was doing poorly and we called a Chaplain because the parents had asked that the baby be baptized. I assumed that the Chaplain would be an old man…when a …

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