DEAR CATHOLIC NURSES,
Before we were nurses, it was easy to dream and ponder our nursing employment and how we would conduct ourselves. In reality, we know that nursing is multifacted and often complex, requiring much from us. To be good nurses, it takes our talents, intellect, generosity, and natural and spiritual depths. It takes great integrity, perseverance, and even bravery. You all are these good nurses.
Good nurses hold high standards of honesty, resourcefulness, holding the highest work ethic. The craftsmen call it “pride in workmanship”. We call it devotion to our calling. Maybe we call it “being Jesus’ hands and feet”, ministering to the image of God in each and every person. It takes growing in self-mastery, that is in virtue, a laying down of one’s life for others, a holding of the tongue, a high degree of humility.
All Catholics have the high calling of standing for truth. Our times are especially challenging in this regard. Nurses are at the juncture of the truth and the lies that press in on our society.
Thank you for standing; thank you for persevering; thank you for growing in the Faith, so as to serve the good and not the darkness.
In Jesus' Holy Name, Your President, Ellen Gianoli, RN 
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