Sister Cecelia Home residents celebrate feast day

Those who stay behind the “scenes” are often the people who are working the hardest to bring joy to the lives of others. Some of those people are the Mercy Sunshine Group. For many years, Sister Cecelia and her Mercy Sunshine Group have been working with the residents of the Sister Cecelia Home and Rockview Hospital. The task has not been easy and support has dwindled over the years but the group is determined to make a difference any way they can. On Monday, they combined the feast day of St. Cecelia, Thanksgiving and a little bit of Christmas into one big fiesta.

Lourdes Gallaty, Mercy Sunshine Group

“You would think that they don’t know what’s happening but there was one month and we didn’t make it. Things came up and they surely remembered we didn’t come.”

Sister Cecelia

“The thought comes to me that they say your reward, you will be rewarded in Heaven by our Heavenly Father and at this moment, I feel rewarded on earth.”

Veena Sadarangani, Mercy Sunshine Group

“I don’t feel bad begging. I go around and I explain to them that there’s a day when we all will be old and we don’t know where we’ll land. Maybe we land right here so it’s right now when we help. I know we will be helped also.

They feel very good when we come here. It’s not the food that they get, but they feel that they are wanted.”

Leopold Balderamos, Chairman, Board of Governors

“It would help immensely if we had the next of kin, relatives visit more frequently so they can feel that we care for them and that they will be able to see that it is really worthwhile being here.”

About fifty-four elderly Belizeans call Sister Cecelia “home” while sixty others live at Rockview Hospital. The Mercy Sunshine Group operates strictly on donations which can be made by contacting the Sister Cecelia Home or Helpage Belize in Belize City.