Holy Family Hospice

 At the end of life, there may be things you still want to say. You may want to make peace with someone you love or hear a prayer you’ve known since childhood. For a family facing goodbye, it can mean so much to have someone there who will listen, pray with you, or simply sit beside you.

In 1896, Venerable Rose Hawthorne began caring for people with incurable cancer who had nowhere else to turn. In 1956, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne brought her ministry to Parma when they opened Holy Family Home.

Seventy years later, spiritual care is still at the heart of our Catholic hospice ministry. We ease pain, care for the spirit, and honor each person’s beliefs.

Providing spiritual care day after day is a significant, ongoing expense for Holy Family. It takes a full-time, on-site chaplain and a dedicated pastoral care team with time to sit beside a patient who is afraid or alone, listen to what’s weighing on them, and support families through difficult conversations and goodbyes.

Help us raise $15,000 for the Chapel & Spiritual Care Fund. Your gift helps sustain the team that brings prayer to the bedside, makes Holy Communion and Anointing of the Sick available to those who request them, and supports daily Mass in our chapel. It also helps keep grief support available free of charge to families and the wider community.

Please consider a gift this #WEGIVECATHOLIC so the next patient and family have someone to turn to. Give here from November 21 through midnight on Giving Tuesday, December 1. To give by mail, through stock, or through an IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution, please visit bit.ly/HFLegacyOfCare.

P.S. Thanks to our donors, the $400,000 first phase of the window replacement project at Holy Family Home is complete. If you’d like to help care for the home the Sisters entrusted to us, you can also designate a gift to the $400,000 second phase, planned for spring 2027.