Mercy Outreach

Built upon a longstanding Mercy tradition, service activities play an integral role in supporting students in learning the meaning of Mercy by reaching out to those in need.  Service activities span every grade level and draw the entire school community together to foster a sense of responsibility for the less fortunate.  Each school year, our students and their families can be counted on to give selflessly of their time, talent and treasure to many organizations, including the following: 

¨ Pennies for Peru, a traditional Mercy Day celebration collecting pennies for the Sisters of Mercy Peruvian mission.  This year Pennies for Peru will be collected on September 24th.  All students are urged to bring in their pennies (although we also accept larger currency) for this friendly grade vs. grade competition.  All donations are totalled on a grade basis and the announcement of the big winner is eagerly anticipated. 

All monies collected as part of Pennies for Peru are donated to the Sisters of Mercy's sponsored works in Peru which operates to aid women and children by promoting the development of practical career skills.

Third grade celebrates the announcement that they collected the most Pennies for Peru.

¨ Manna on Main Street

¨ Mercy Hospice

Mercy Connections

Mercy Connections is an ongoing outreach program in which each grade level is paired with a Mercy-sponsored ministry and focuses its outreach activities on this mission.  This program aids many worthwhile ministries, such as McAuley Convent, a retirement home for the Sisters of Mercy,  St. Elizabeth’s School: Before and After School Program, Project Mercy: Before and After School Program, Mercy Hospitality Center, Women of Hope and Calcutta House.

 ¨ Spring House Estates, where Service Club members visit with “Senior Partners” in the medical facility.

 ¨ Project H.O.M.E.

 ¨ Needy families in St. Vincent’s and other Philadelphia parishes who have had their Christmas enhanced by gifts purchased with the proceeds from the National Junior Honor Society bake sale, the Student Council poinsettia sale and all the gifts collected on our Christmas Family Prayer Service.