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Sister Catherine Alberta Kunkler
“ … the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves.” (Luke 22:26b) “Today we talk much about the nobility of service for others, but strangely enough, few want to be known as a servant. Or if we are, we expect to be a well…
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Q and A: The new cosmology: a Providence perspective
This article is reprinted from the fall 2009 issue of HOPE. Editor’s note: In the previous article, “The new cosmology: an evolving universe,” Sister Jeanne Knoerle provides an overview of the new cosmology. In the following article, Sister Jeanne explores this subject more by asking two sister-theologians some probing questions. Responding to her questions are…
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Theology: faith seeking connection
How do you picture God? Pray to God? Understand God? Throughout the centuries, theologians have tried to help us grasp the idea of God. As our knowledge of the world around us changes, so, then, does our way of thinking about God, the Creator. As part of a series of stories from the fall 2009…
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A Guide to the Trees at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
In the early 1990s, the Mission Advancement office (OCA) in conjunction with the Eco-justice Task Force published A Guide to the Trees at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. The research and drawings were completed by Sister Alma Louise Mescher and the booklet was designed by Katrina D. Thielman. The purpose of this booklet was to invite visitors…
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Foley Hall: A Portrait
Foley Hall — the name conjures up many memories for graduates of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and for countless Sisters of Providence. Foley Hall was known throughout its long history by several names including Saint Mary’s Academic Institute and the Academy. The cornerstone of this structure was laid Aug. 15, 1860, with the quote, “Wisdom hath…
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Sister Kay Manley
Sisters of Providence were known in my home at a very early age. My parents knew the Duffy, Doherty, McNulty and Patrick families all of whom had daughters who were Sisters of Providence, (SPs). Some of the SPs in those families wrote to me or had other prospective SPs write to me about the possibility…
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Installation of statue at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
Installation of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin statue at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, June, 2009.
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Sister Adelaide donates handmade puppet collection to day care
Sister Adelaide Ortegel can’t help herself. Recently, she was showing a couple of teachers how to operate the marionettes that she made so they could learn the techniques. When the music started, she quietly walked to the rack where other marionettes were resting, picked up a control bar and started dancing and moving the character…
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Sisters fear Know Nothing agitation
But not so Mother Theodore. The Community was terrified. ‘At every moment we imagine we can see the Know-Nothings coming to set fire to our house,’ noted the Foundress in the diary.
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Sister Wendy Workman
“Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing.” (Psalm 23:1) “But now finally from heaven where she’s listening, Sister Wendy would ask us to read what Sister Dorothy Hucksoll has written of her in the text, ‘Sister Wendy’s Story.’ It is this message Sister Dorothy gives us all: ‘Hers may be the greatest achievement of all…
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Truly a masterpiece
“Souvenir of the Fiftieth Anniversary, or Golden Jubilee, of St. Mary’s Academic Institute, St. Mary of the Woods, Vigo Co., Ind.” written by a former pupil and published in 1891, describes how the inside of St. Anne Shell Chapel was designed by Sister Mary Joseph Le Fer de la Motte. (Please note, this book refers…
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Sister Marsha Speth
With the Sisters of Providence as my teachers in both grade and high school you could say that I sort of imbibed the spirit or charism of the Congregation without ever knowing it. But that alone does not explain why I am here today. It is both a graced mystery and series of many choices….
The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, are a congregation of Roman Catholic women religious (sisters) who minister throughout the United States and Taiwan. Saint Mother Theodore Guerin founded the Sisters of Providence in 1840. The congregation has a mission of being God's Providence in the world by committing to performing works of love, mercy and justice in service among God's people.