True sister of mercy to homeless

From EndCanadianPoverty.ca

• Date: January 25th, 2007
• Source: Toronto Star
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" She is an angel of mercy in street clothes. On a blustery winter day Sister Susan Moran, 68, kneels next to a homeless man, a regular at Bay and Bloor Sts. during the mid-mornings. She hands him a hot coffee and a sandwich. She's visited him there for about five years now.

William Haddley, 51, looks up from his station against his breakfront of steel garbage bins. She touches his shoulder. Her eyes meet his. And he smiles a big grin that plays up some missing front teeth and blue eyes.

Haddley explains he had luck securing some dry cardboard to place under his sleeping bag. "I don't know where I'll stay tonight," he says. He collects tokens for his trip later to a shelter. "I want to go to that new place in the Beach (St. Aidan's)," he said. "I saw it on TV."

Moran tells him St Aidan's is open only on Monday nights. With space for 12 people, it's the newest of 31 Out of the Cold interfaith-based programs that shelter and feed the homeless in Toronto during the winter, in churches, synagogues, temples and mosques, one night a week at each location"

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