Saint Marry’s Hospital in Taitung sells famous St.-Marry Cake (sister blessing cake). It is often reported in the media. It is also recommended in the network again and again. St.-Marry Cake is made by a group of foreign sisters according to their hometown bakery cuisine for the purpose of raising enough funds for the only hospice in Taitung and for permanent management.

I have tasted St.-Marry Cake and it is really delicious, crisp, refreshingly sweet, and abundant. But to my sentiment, from the person in charge of the orders I know more about the long story of the foreign sisters. In the past people in Taiwan were poor and the sisters raised funds in foreign lands when the hospital was short of money. Nowadays, Taiwanese are getting richer and richer; on the contrary, St.- Marry Hospital is still lacking in money. We can not do anything about it! They always do what other people won’t do and they save people regardless of cost. They have no more good reasons to raise funds from their countrymen. They can do nothing but turn their interest to the way of making money.

In the very beginning, they got warm response and lots of orders. They had to bake about seven or eight kinds of cakes and it was almost beyond their power. Anyway they were sisters of seventy or even eighty years old. Their pressure grew greater according as the orders were becoming more. On the one hand, they had to hurry up. On the other hand, they were afraid their cakes were not good enough. Some of them fell ill for being too busy. They were scared to death. They were forced to cut down the amount and to set a limit to the dates (a funny way of running). One of them is Sister Xiau Yu-ming, winner of 12^th Medical Contribution Medal. She is seventy-seven years of age now. She has been in Taiwan for forty-four years. When she got on to the stage, she asked the organizer whether or not the medal could be changed for cash because Taitung St.-Marry hospital was ( is always) much in need of money.

Though they love money, their spirit is impressive and touching. Their contributions to Taiwan have made us (feel) ashamed. Another sister in the hospital Shi yia-pu is also a winner of the Medical Contribution Medal. She went back to America for rest because of eye disease. When the time for her to leave Taiwan came, she said; “ I came to Taiwan to help Taiwanese. Now I am aged; I do not want myself to become the burden of Taiwanese. The best way is to choose to go back where I came from. There I can be well taken care of by my family.”

Alas! They take good care of our countrymen with their lives. Though old, they do not expect us to take care of them. What they do hope is that we can take of our own countrymen all together. For the time being, the sisters are out for church retreat, so I can not see them. I think we can help them think up some good ways of bakery procedure. I do not think it is harder than curing sick people of the doctors.

在這重視低鹽、低糖、低油養生的時代，我還推薦【台東聖母醫院賣蛋糕】短文，促銷好吃、但精緻的蛋糕，恐有違養生之道。孩子，你錯了！當然，因為服用藥物忌吃或糖尿病患者或膽固醇偏高的人，淺嚐即可，不宜貪吃，至於正常的人，偶而大快朵頤，自我犒賞又何妨？也可訂購蛋糕分送育幼院、教養院或安養院等公益團體，或逢認養的孩子生日時做生日禮物，送【愛心】可以使人快樂，也能帶給自己快樂。

附註：

1.《台東聖母醫院賣蛋糕》是台東聖母醫院執行長陳世賢先生《真愛烘焙坊》書中的一篇短文，愛心洋溢，感人肺腑，徵得陳世賢先生同意，特別轉載於部落格，表達崇高的敬意，並表達支持與響應的意思，希望更多人看到而加入捐助行列。能有機會向大家推薦【愛心文章】，很感榮幸。

2.我大女婿老家是台東知本，受台東聖母醫院全體工作人員的犧牲與奉獻精神所感動，女婿、女兒、孫女三人，去年捐款台東聖母醫院，添購儀器，以感謝台東聖母醫院照顧台東人、造福台東的辛勞付出。我們夫妻、二女兒、兒子則捐助故鄉嘉義東石聖心教養院與新設的敏道家園，或捐助現金，或認養院童。應該【為善不欲人知】，實話實說，只是希望能【拋磚引玉】。

3.【請大家告訴大家。】捐助公益團體，既可助人、又可節稅，利己利人。【送愛心靠大家】，讓我們【有錢出錢、有力出力】，伸出愛的雙手，牽著偏遠地區、弱勢族群、窮苦人家的孩子以及身心障礙朋友的手，手牽著手，一起迎向【明天會更好】【有光的地方】。

4.修女祈福蛋糕，訂購專線：089-322833

5愛心捐款帳戶  

郵局劃撥：   戶名：台東天主教聖母醫院   帳號：0662081

6.愛心捐款帳戶  

郵局劃撥：   戶名：財團法人天主教會嘉義教區附設嘉義縣私立敏道家園

帳號：   31585264   (在嘉義縣朴子市另新設私立敏道家園)