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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...
Oral history: Sister Patricia Geis, a life of adventures and little ones
...Sister Patty’s ministries through the years. St. Mark School in Chicago 75th Anniversary in Sept. 1981. Sister Patricia Geis, left, and Sister Ann Maureen Loaney (RIP), right, greet a former student and her children.” Little kids and service to others “I loved Kindergarten and preschool.” Most of Sister Patty’s career in education has been spent as a teacher, principal, director and tutor. She has with a particular penchant and love for Pre-School and Kindergarten students. “I decided I wanted to...
We’re Surrounded!
...every Eucharistic Liturgy here at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, at the time of the general intercessions, we hear read aloud the names of the sisters and associates whose anniversary of death was on that date. We also are reminded to recall family members or friends who have run the race and kept the faith. They become my circle for the day. (And, as I get older, I recognize many of the names!) They are indeed, so great a cloud of witnesses. Examples...
On healing touch and the wall at the border
...to see and learn about a portion of the wall and many experiences that people have at the wall. During the walk we also encountered the memorial site of a teenager, José Antonio Elena Rodriguez. He had been shot 13 times at the wall by a U.S. Border Patrol Agent. His death occurred 10 years ago. The memorial for his anniversary of death took place a few days before I arrived. Sister Tracey told us that School of America Watch...
Oral history: Sister Cathy Campbell the storyteller
...going to work for the United States Information Agency, in a US embassy, or as an alternative perhaps, working as a sportswriter for a major newspaper. Again, Providence intervened. About a month prior to her graduation, while acting as a tour guide for SMWC, Cathy escorted Indianapolis Star Feature Writer Philip Clifford as he developed a story about the college’s 125th anniversary. At the end of the day, Clifford gave Cathy his card. He encouraged her to give him a...
Sister Anna Fan shares her story as a fully professed Sister of Providence
...quickly. I refused each time. My reasons were: I am too old. I have no interest. That life doesn’t fit me. Yet, I prayed for vocations for others frequently. Finding treasure I attended a liturgy on Aug. 8, 2012. It happened to be my first anniversary of working at Miracle Home. The reading of the Gospel of that day was: “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and...
Sister Helen Vinton (formerly Sister Helen Jean)
...group in Canada and Norway to save heritage seeds. These seeds, should there be an international disaster, would restart agriculture to feed the world. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Helen’s induction into the Public Interest Hall of Fame in Washington, D.C. Sister Helen was inducted into the group “for her commitment to environmental protection, sustainable development and social justice. She has worked with fishers, farmers and former sugarcane workers on issues such as minimum wages, inflated land prices,...
Sister Linda Kaliker (formerly Sister Marie Theodore)
...in joy/ and be led forth in peace;/ the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing.” The first volume of the history of the Sisters of Providence recounts that on August 24, 1840, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, seeing in her superior’s wish the will of God, yielded and agreed to lead a little troupe of missionaries to America. August 24 was an anniversary of such moment in her life that she kept it in faithful remembrance...
Oral history: Sister Marian Brady the scholar
...his first case, Marian’s mother asked the Sisters at Dunblane Elementary to pray for him. So they placed a vigil light in front of the tabernacle. Her father won his case. School days Sister Marian, right, in 1999, at her Golden Jubilee, 50th anniversary of being a Sister of Providence celebration Sister Marian recounted that when she was a student at Dunblane, the Mother Superior of the Sisters of Providence came to Immaculata to visit. All the girls were to...
‘We’re all grateful for your CONNECTION’
...and the places from whence you came, do this one thing in your sphere of influence — your workplace, school, house of worship or home. Stand in love. Stand CONNECTED in love. Love makes peace possible. Tomorrow, we will celebrate the 183rd anniversary of the arrival of our foundresses in the forests of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. I will close with what I believe is Mother Theodore’s greatest prayer of connection and her fondest hope for all of us who walk in...
The Sisters of Providence: A history of justice
...also established the Freedom School in Albany, Georgia, teaching youth and adults how to read, write and do mathematics. Sister of Providence Dorothy Gartland, far left, joins other 8th Day Center for Justice staff members in advocating for equality during the Center’s tenth anniversary celebration in 1985. In 1974 the Sisters of Providence were one of six founding religious congregation’s of the 8th Day Center for Justice in Chicago. First Sister Dorothy Gartland, SP, then Sister Kathleen Desautels, SP, ministered...
Our trip to Ruillé sur Loir
...during which time each of the delegates — Jeanne and myself included — were called by name, asked to respond “Here I am,” and then instructed to take and place a small vigil light on the altar. We placed our lights near the relic of Mother Theodore, given primacy of place on the altar, next to the wood carved rendering of the Prayers of Reunion recited faithfully by both our communities. When Carole Kimes and Jeanne attended the 200th anniversary...