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Where Your Treasure Is
...by thick concrete walls and by a system that had labeled her as less than human. As Congress begins negotiations for the 2019 budget, we know the Trump Administration has requested more resources to remove beloved residents like Sonia from our communities. The administration’s requests include: A massive increase in immigration detention – to 51,379 people in detention across the country every day Funds to recruit and hire 1,000 additional ICE officers, and Funds to compensate more local police to...
Conscience, Candidates and Discipleship in Voting – Part two
...background of abortion, climate change and the culture of exclusion, it is clear that the faith-filled voter who seeks to be guided by Catholic social teaching is confronted by compelling moral claims that cut across the partisan and cultural divides of our nation. The pathway from these crosscutting moral claims to decisions on particular candidates is not a direct and singular one in Catholic teaching, rooted in one issue. For this reason, the drive to label a single issue preeminent...
Witness
...the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.” I believe Will LeCroy can teach us an essential truth: Who among us deserves to be labeled, judged, discarded even, according to the worst thing we ever did? Rather, are we not called to honor human dignity and extend God’s loving design to all creation? To all persons? Surely just as we know that God loves us always and is never far from us, so are we...
Sister Mary (Mary Agatha) Carlton
...Officially Sister Mary was the volunteer coordinator and in that position interviewed volunteers and supervised their orientation. In addition, according to Sister Pat, Sister Mary assisted with the taking in and labeling of medications, restocking examination rooms, picking up supplies, cleaning the clinic and doing fund raisers. Sister Pat attributes their many returning clients to Sister Mary’s influence. Ever the gracious and generous woman, she did indeed ‘heal the oppressed,’” shared Sister Mary Roger. “Over the last five years, Sister...
Sister Ellen Catherine Conroy
...75th anniversary as a Sister of Providence, one of her former students from Sacred Heart School in Evansville, Ind., wrote to her congratulating her on the anniversary. This woman said, ‘You taught me in fourth grade. I remember that you were an especially patient, kind teacher. How in the world you ever managed to have a class of over 50 students is beyond me. I, too, have become a teacher, so I can truly appreciate all you did during those...
Prayer in troubled times
Sister Denise Wilkinson in a moment of prayer. Some days ago I received a request from a local newspaper reporter who was preparing an article about the 10th anniversary of the catastrophic events here in the U.S. on 9/11/01. She asked me if I thought people tended to turn to prayer at times of tragedy or turmoil. If so, why did I think that was so? I have to admit, I was uncomfortable with the questions. Maybe not as uncomfortable...
Centenary of St. Anne Chapel, 1876-1976
The cover of the St. Anne (Shell) Chapel, 1876-1976, brochure In 1976, the 100th anniversary of the St. Anne Chapel — or St. Anne Shell Chapel as it is commonly known — was celebrated. This small chapel is located in Providence Park near the cemetery. In thanksgiving for a safe journey during an arduous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1843, Mother Theodore Guerin built a log chapel to honor St. Anne, patronness of sailors in her native Brittany, France....
The remarkable life of Mother Marie Gratia Luking
Mother Marie Gratia Luking led the Sisters of Providence mission to Kaifeng, China, in 1920. By Sister Mary Roger Madden On Oct. 29, 1989, in Shalu, Taichung County, Taiwan, a group of clergy, lay people and women religious gathered at the burial site of Mother Marie Gratia Luking. They were there to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of a simple woman religious from the United States known throughout Taiwan as a missionary; educator; builder; helper of the poor...
Sister Mary Evangelista Herber
...Pentagon and some monuments on the 40th anniversary of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Some of our sisters were present for the anniversary remembrance. The portion of the banner read, ‘We Are Family,’ with Earth in the background,” shared Sister Mary. “How appropriate that Vangie was called home to God for all eternity on All Saints Day! Saint Mother Theodore says, ‘What have we to do in order to become saints? Nothing extraordinary; nothing more than we do every day....
Anniversary of our first mission
Room 201 at St. Joseph School before the fire. The Sisters of Providence have a long history of mission work in Jasper, Ind. This week marked the 172nd year the school has been in operation. St. Joseph school located in Jasper, Ind., was the first establishment of the Sisters of Providence outside of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Mother Theodore was asked in 1841 to provide three sisters for Father Kundek’s school, but she thought it best to wait until the following year....
Eleven Sisters of Providence celebrate Jubilees
Photo album of the event Ten Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods recently celebrated their 50th anniversary as members of the Congregation. They are Sisters Carole Ann Fedders, Mary Beth Klingel, Constance Kramer, Mary Mundy, Rosemary Nudd, Loretta Picucci, Barbara Reder, Joan Slobig, Marsha Speth and Ann Sullivan. In addition, one Sister of Providence, Sister Mary Ryan, recently celebrated her 25th anniversary as a member of the Congregation. 25-year Jubilarian Sister Mary is a native of Salem, Mass. She currently...
Sister Ann Sullivan celebrates golden jubilee
Sister Ann Sullivan, founding director of White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, was one of 10 Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods who recently celebrated their 50th anniversary as members of the Congregation. We join in the celebration by congratulating Sister Ann on this special anniversary! You see, in 1991 there was no White Violet Center, but the seed of that possibility was alive and growing is Sister Ann. It was Sister Ann who provided the soil in which this ministry...