{"id":492,"date":"2009-06-30T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/06\/and-then-there-were-nuns-benefactor-finds-work-for-unemployed-sisters.html"},"modified":"2009-06-30T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T17:29:00","slug":"and-then-there-were-nuns-benefactor-finds-work-for-unemployed-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/06\/and-then-there-were-nuns-benefactor-finds-work-for-unemployed-sisters.html","title":{"rendered":"And then there were nuns: benefactor finds work for unemployed sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the In My Own Backyard Desk: a generous and anonymous benefactor is giving back to the Church that gave him so much — and a group of recently unemployed nuns is reaping the benefits.<\/p>\n

The scoop, in the NY Daily News<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A godsend for poor Brooklyn students is also turning into a miracle for a quartet of laid-off nuns.<\/p>\n

An anonymous benefactor who is bankrolling the soon-to-open Pope John Paul II Family Academy in Bushwick has also hired the Catholic school educators whose school was set to close.<\/p>\n

“It was divine providence,” said Sister Natalina Rotatori.<\/p>\n

Rotatori taught for 34 years at the St. Brendan’s School in New Haven, which merged with another school and will shut down for good in August.<\/p>\n

“For two weeks, we were jobless,” Rotatori said. “We prayed.”<\/p>\n

Just when the laid-off sisters were starting to lose hope, Sister Mary Antoinette Cappelli answered a late-night phone call.<\/p>\n

On the other line was the patron of the new school in Bushwick.<\/p>\n

He credited his success to Catholic education and said he wanted to give something back.<\/p>\n

“I feel it was a call from God,” Cappelli said Monday. “We were not looking for anything else, and I had never heard of this gentleman.”<\/p>\n

The donor offered to hire all four nuns who had lost their jobs.<\/p>\n

“Without even asking for it, the Lord has granted me the grace for working in a school for poor children,” she said. “I feel very grateful to God for this special favor.”<\/p>\n

Cappelli, Rotatori, and Sister Daisy Kollamparampil are now set for a new mission in an underserved and demanding neighborhood.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be a big challenge for us in so many areas,” Rotatori said.<\/p>\n

The new Family Academy, located at 139 Menahan St., will offer free tuition to students whose families are under the federal income threshold for poverty.<\/p>\n

The school, with 10 faculty members, will serve 100 students from pre-K to third grade in its first year, said headmaster John Murphy.<\/p>\n

“The idea of us creating this school in this neighborhood and having four sisters who dedicated themselves to Catholic education and living,” Murphy said, “I think that’s nothing short of a miracle.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out more details from the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

P<\/span>HOTO:<\/span><\/b> <\/span>Sisters Marykutty Edavazhickal (l.) and Mary Antoinette Cappelli outside of what will be the school at St Barbara’s church in Bushwick.<\/span><\/i> From the NY Daily News. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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