Search Results for label/Ann Sullivan
Getting too many results? To search for an exact phrase, try putting multiple word phrases in quotation marks (such as "Saint Mother Theodore") to narrow your results.
Sister Dorothy Evelyn Laughlin
...was incredibly intelligent, graceful and strong,’” shared Sister Ann. “On March 17, along with the bridegroom, her parents and brother, Robert, I imagine some of her former students and colleagues were behind that heavenly door when it opened. All welcomed her home as she entered with her brightly lit lamp,” concluded Sister Ann. The Mass of Christian Burial for Sister Dorothy Evelyn was celebrated March 31, with the Rev. Daniel Hopcus presiding. She was preceded in death by her brother....
Mother Theodore dioramas
...Prizes are awarded during commencement exercises July 31, 1848. Before. Original title/caption: Mother Theodore’s Sturdy House for Her Daughters Looks Down on the St. Anne Procession Which She Established. Second Providence. July 25, 1875. “Saint Anne Procession”. After: additional colors and landscape added. The annual July 25 procession makes its way to the Saint Anne Shell Chapel, built in thanksgiving by Mother Theodore for safe passage in a raging storm. “Fire of 1889”. No original. A fire completely destroys all...
Shared roots: bonds that unite beyond culture, time and place
...building. I explored the bath house where the sisters used to bathe. No heat, two spigots for cold running water. Buckets were filled with water and then poured over one self. Great idea on a summer evening but a cold winter eve? One day I came upon St. Anne’s Chapel. Again, I felt transported back to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and our St. Anne Shell Chapel. St. Anne, mother of Mary, is very much revered in France as the patron of sailors....
Sister Barbara Ann Zeller: modern-day foundress
Sister Barbara Ann Zeller is CEO and founder of Providence Self-Sufficiency Ministries in Georgetown, Indiana. Like Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and her companions who sank the roots of Providence into the wilderness of Indiana 174 years ago, Sister Barbara Ann Zeller continues the course of planting Providence. Over the past 20 years, Sister Barbara has founded in Georgetown, Indiana, a multi-faceted campus that serves peoples’ real and complex needs. At Providence House you will find reunification and strengthening homes for...
Providence Family Services’ Annual Rummage Sale Breaks Records
Last year, Sister Patty Fillenwarth was quite pleased that the Providence Family Services annual rummage sale cracked $6,000 in proceeds. However, she couldn’t be happier with the results of this year’s sale, which took place at Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church in Chicago, Oct. 3 and 4: $7,654.13 was raised to help fund the services provided to those living in Humboldt Park and the surrounding areas of Chicago. “I don’t know if we’ll get to $8,000 next...
Throwback Thursday: Remembering Commencement 1987
...Sister Ann Christopher Herald, OP, and Sisters of Providence Marilyn Herber and Ann Margaret O’Hara. The program was the college’s first master’s program in the school’s 147-year history at the time. In addition, Rev. Osborn was the first man to ever receive a degree from the college. Sister Barbara was the president of the college from 1984-98. Currently, she ministers in prayer. In addition, Sister Marilyn currently ministers as a volunteer at Miracle Place and the Abbie Hunt Bryce Home...
Connecting with Creation
...Congregation in 1867 and died in 1937. “We are making sacrifices by cutting the beautiful flowers for the chapel; but that is the special aim in cultivating them,” she wrote. “Faith alone is not sufficient for all kinds of characters, so we adorn the house of the Lord with flowers which have been cut without pity.” According to the Sisters of Providence Archives, the earliest greenhouse was located west of St. Anne Chapel, facing south. It was built by Pére...
Sisters of Providence Annual Meeting summer 2017
Sisters of Providence gathered from near and far for their summer annual meeting June 24-30, 2017 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The annual meeting to bring all Sisters of Providence together for a time of rest, prayer, community fun and business dealings has been a much-anticipated yearly tradition for the sisters since the time of their founding when Saint Mother Theodore Guerin would call them all home. Enjoy these photos from this year’s gathering!...
Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, 2018 reflection
...in Crow Agency, Montana, among the Native American people. I then asked him about the inspiration behind the shrine; what was he trying to accomplish in the way he had helped design the journey of Mother Theodore’s life, beginning in France and culminating in Indiana. His reply? “I wanted to show what holiness looked like in pioneer Indiana.” *** We are here this morning because of the mark of holiness that one Anne-Therese Guerin put on this particular place in...
When I was in prison, you prayed with me
For many years, Sisters of Providence and friends and Associates have helped lead prayer services with inmates at the Federal Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. Sister Alice Ann Rhinesmith, SP Sister Alice Ann Rhinesmith, SP, has ministered with this group for the past five or six years. Sometimes the sisters have led communion services for the inmates. Other times they assisted with Mass when a priest was available to preside. One sister has even led a Bible study group. Sister...
Miracle place: it’s more than just a name
...much they had helped him. He kept saying they had ‘saved his life.’ I finally found out he was talking about the sisters at Miracle Place,” Annie said. “He said he felt like it was a safe place for him, a loving place where he could go. When you think about being a 12-year-old boy and feeling alone, then someone reaches out to you, that is a big thing!” Sisters Barbara and Rita Ann also discovered that the senior citizens...
Journals and Letters week 50: Mother Theodore and Summit City
...Mother Theodore. Along with Sister Ann Casper, I know of Sister Donna Butler, Sister Rita Clare Gerardot, Sister Mary Ann Fox, Sister Linda Kaliker and Sister Carol Lindly. In fact, I had the pleasure of driving Sister Donna’s brother, Steve, to visit his beloved sister at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods several times over the two years I lived in Fort Wayne. While I was at a gathering once, shortly after I moved to Fort Wayne, I mentioned where I worked. A new...