The third Mercy Works Service Project - Tend the Sick will serve as a volunteer recruitment opportunity. Anyone interested in donating their time at Archdiocesan nursing homes in the Philadelphia-North Vicariate is invited to attend an open house.
Visitors are welcome to take a tour and talk to staff members about volunteer opportunities.
Reverend Monsignor Francis W. Beach, Vicar for Philadelphia -North, will preside at a Prayer Service at Saint John Neumann Nursing Home in Philadelphia. After the service, student volunteers from Father Judge High School, in Northeast Philadelphia, will deliver more than 500 potted plants to residents at Saint John Neumann Nursing Home and nearby Immaculate Mary Home, the two Archdiocesan nursing homes in the Philadelphia-North Vicariate. The Mercy Works Service Projects are based upon existing Archdiocesan volunteer efforts and are intended to be reminders that we are called upon to serve our neighbor all year long. Each Mercy Works Service Project will take place in a different Vicariate of the Archdiocese. In April 2001, volunteers worked at three homeless shelters in the Philadelphia-South Vicariate.