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To Mother Theodore and companions
...a litany chanted down the years. Theodore, St. Vincent Ferrer, Basilide, Marie Xavier, St. Ligouri, Olympiade, with St. Francis Xavier scurrying after you another year. Daughters of your founding in that Woods we too call home, we round the season’s corner to another Autumn. The leaves turn gold in honor of your coming. Like new psalms chanted with the old we celebrate our anniversary Eucharist with you, Ladies of the past. You look on us amazed, as women will at...
Reflections for Foundation Day 2020
...… ”A Vision for the Future of Religious Life”. She reminds us that it is in our “Founding Stories” that we find these seeds of hope! We as SPs, Associates, and ministry partners have incredible Founding stories to rely upon…today we celebrate 180 years since the arrival of Mother Theodore and her companions here at the Woods, … and this past September 29th, we began our celebration of the 100th Anniversary of our Founding in Asia led by Mother Marie...
Special Retreat ‘treats’
We would not typically update you on the annual retreat for the Sisters of Providence at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods through the Providence Partners e-newsletter. However, this year’s retreat concluded a year-long celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Mission in Asia and, in light of recent hate-motivated actions across our country, it is important to be reminded of the 100-year legacy we share with our Missionary Sisters of Providence and supporters in Asia. In commemoration of the celebration, Sister Dawn Tomaszewski,...
Honoring all teachers during National Teacher Appreciation Week
...as principal at St. Rose School in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Sister Margaret Quinlan teaching a class at Evansville Reitz Memorial High School in 1981. Sister Trinita O’Brien (RIP) speaking with students at St. Rose School, Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1993. Sister Margaret Norris walking with children on the track at 10th Street School in Jasper, Indiana, during the 150th anniversary of the Sisters of Providence ministering in the city, which took place in 1992. Sister Anne Clementine (RIP) in her first-grade classroom....
Get to know Providence Associate Cathy Allen
...two great-granddaughters. My husband and I will celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary in September. I have been an avid reader since childhood. (My mom was too and she taught us to love reading.) I make quilts and do hand work like cross stitch and embroidery. I have been a Christian since I was 10, and joined the Catholic Church a few years ago. I’d felt drawn to Catholicism for many years but didn’t follow through on it. But after a...
Journals and Letters week 49: The death of an angel
(Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” page 422 to page 429 mid-page starting with Death of Sister St. Francis. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week.) This week’s post happens to fall on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, a tragic day in our country. How painful it is to lose someone from your life. Whether it is death or some other type of separation, when someone you are close to departs it is...
Newsnotes from the Sisters of Providence fall 2021
...anniversary White Violet Center! To learn more about our ecological justice ministry, visit WhiteViolet.org Bonjour Bon Appétit! This summer we welcomed Bon Appétit food management to the Sisters of Providence family. Bon Appétit is now handling all catered events and Sunday Brunch at the Woods. You can expect prepared-from-scratch meals using the freshest ingredients purchased from local sources whenever possible. Sunday Brunch at the Woods is served from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in O’Shaughnessy Dining Room. For menus and...
Let the Sisters of Providence pray for you!
...their ministry to prayer? we post “elevator lists” in sisters’ residences at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods noting special dates of our donors to remember in prayer, such as birthdays, wedding anniversaries and the first anniversary of the death of a spouse? we reply with personal notes or emails to many of your prayer requests? For the Providence Community, prayer is a much-loved ministry. We love serving you and each other through prayer. Originally published in the winter 2022 issue of HOPE magazine....
And now, a brief word from O’Shaughnessy Dining Hall
...1989. But I was preserved and continued to be used by the college students. Visitors also began to come to me for an elegant Sunday Brunch. And the Sisters of Providence rented me out for festive, exciting events — weddings and receptions, proms and formals, workshops and seminars, meetings and conferences, family and class reunions, bridal and baby showers, anniversary and graduation parties. The sisters held many summer gatherings in me — Annual Meetings, Chapters, Golden Jubilee parties, even dances...
Newsnotes from the Sisters of Providence winter 2022
...took place. Sisters attend celebration in North Carolina Sister Betty Paul and Sister Kathy French with Bishop Luis Zarama, Bishop of Raleigh The Sisters of Providence were invited by St. Patrick Catholic Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina — the oldest Catholic Church in the state — to attend the parish’s 200th anniversary. Sisters Betty Paul, SP, and Kathy French, SP, both of whom minister in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, represented the Congregation. The two sisters attended a celebratory...
Sister Donna Marie Fu
...an article Sister Nancy Nolan prepared for the 100th anniversary celebration of the SP mission to Asia, she recounts a 1990 trip to Kaifung that led to a desire and a commitment on the part of the Congregation to strengthen the connection between ourselves and that mission to Asia. One of the recommendations coming from the Congregation Council at the time was to explore the possibility of sisters volunteering to go to China as teachers of English. Sister Anna Fan...
Sister Rita Clare Gerardot
...very hard As the years went by, And always kept listening To that voice in the sky. Blest with good health And still looking nifty’ She recently celebrated Anniversary number fifty. And now all of a sudden The voice in the sky, Says “Rita slowdown” Let the world go by. You’ve served me well A job all can admire, Now the time has come For you to retire. But knowing Sister Rita Like all of us do, We doubt she...