{"id":2065,"date":"2016-07-08T23:57:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T11:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2016-07-08T23:57:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T11:57:57","slug":"hospice-work-brings-qsm-by-michael-otto-nz-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/?p=2065","title":{"rendered":"Hospice work brings QSM &#8211; By Michael Otto, NZ Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2066 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SisterMaryLCM.jpg\" alt=\"SisterMaryLCM\" width=\"146\" height=\"150\" \/>A Little Company of Mary sister who has been involved with the hospice movement in New Zealand since the 1980s has been awarded the Queens Service Medal. Sr Mary Scanlon, LCM, of Wellington, received the award in the Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours. She was appointed as the Mary Potter Hospice education officer in Wellington in 1986 and coordinated terminal care education programmes for hospice staff at Calvary Hospital. She later took on the role of principal nurse and helped guide major changes for the hospice, including the building of a new hospice in Newtown and setting up the Mary Potter Hospice Trust.<br \/>\nIn the late 1980s she was instrumental in introducing care for those suffering from Aids. She joined the Hospice New Zealand Executive in 1987 and served as President in 1989 and 1990. After retiring as principal nurse in 1990, she took on various roles, including counselling, training and governance.<br \/>\nSr Mary told NZ Catholic that her QSM award recognised 102 years of prayerful and loving service by LCM sisters to healthcare in New Zealand. <em>\u201cTogether we draw inspiration from the vision of Venerable Mary Potter, in her words: \u2018We will watch and pray with the dying as Mary did on Calvary\u2019.\u201d<\/em> Sr Mary said her award also honours the LCM sisters in the province of the Southern Cross (Australia, New Zealand and Tonga), who, despite age and infirmity, continue to pray, live and work in the spirit of Mary Potter.<br \/>\n<em>\u201cMy QSM is a huge honour for me from the country of my birth, she said. I am, as it were, the poster girl representing religious women who work tirelessly for the good of our neighbours, especially those sick, suffering, dying and in need.We do what we do cheerfully, knowing that we are also needy human beings.\u201d Sr Mary said prayer has always been the backdrop of their care in hospitals, hospices and in the community. She noted the importance of the sisters\u2019 daily prayer for the dying.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Little Company of Mary sister who has been involved with the hospice movement in New Zealand since the 1980s has been awarded the Queens Service Medal. Sr Mary Scanlon, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/?p=2065\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}