Jean Lynch is a Providence Associate from Sarasota, Fla. She attended Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I., where she earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She now ministers as the director of the preschool at St. Patrick Parish in Sarasota.…
An engineering degree was practically required in order to understand the 1960 instructions for the new caps and collars worn by the Sisters of Providence. The instructions read in part: “The cap should be worn just in front of the…
After the 2008 election and the inauguration of President Barack Obama on Jan. 20, 2009, the Sisters of Providence were asked by the staff members of Archives to reflect on this event. The following are portions of their reflections. As…
The only surviving sibling of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin was her sister, Marie Guerin-Le Touzé. Three of her daughters entered the Sisters of Providence of Ruillé-sur-Loir, France, and came to the United States to serve at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Only one…
This article is reprinted from the winter 2009 issue of HOPE. On this day, it’s raining. You fumble with an umbrella and hustle inside the back door of St. Ann Dental Services, which has been at its current site since…
This article is reprinted from the winter 2009 issue of HOPE. Let’s take a quiz. What do these things have in common? • An affordable and flexible Catholic college prep school • A teenager who emigrated from Nigeria and settled…
Reading from Psalm 100: All the Earth cry out to you with shouts of joy, O. God. Serving you with gladness; coming before you singing for joy. “Didn’t we, in our youthful years, come to this place to serve God…
One of the most cherished pieces of the Congregation’s history was conserved and digitized with the assistance of the Indiana Historical Society’s Historic Document Preservation Program and the Preservation Imaging Lab. Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s journal, which is written in…
This is part of Religious Life through the Generations, a series of features illustrating what has motivated women from different generations to enter religious life and how their concepts of the vows were similar or different. This project examined the…
This is part of Religious Life through the Generations, a series of features illustrating what has motivated women from different generations to enter religious life and how their concepts of the vows were similar or different. This project examined the…