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Sister Francis Edwards (formerly Sister Francis Bernard)
...Photo provided by Sue Weatherwax. She stayed on at McGinnis as librarian for another year and then after the death of her father, moved to California where she served for 20 years as librarian in three high schools as well as a seminary. In an article in our newspaper Community, the principal of St. Genevieve’s High School in Panorama City states that she “is the best librarian in the western hemisphere. … She is well read, professionally current and dedicated...
Sister Marie David Schroeder
...and California. It appeared that she enjoyed teaching the lower grades, but she was told that she was too tall to teach little children, so she got assigned to the upper grades, and throughout her teaching career, she taught all eight grades. Virginia (Rojo) Johnson had Marie David in eighth grade. She felt like Marie David tried to instill in her students a sense of responsibility. She would often give long lectures to the class, but the students didn’t mind...
Newsnotes
...Valley, California, Sister Mary Jo extends God’s Providence to all as she holds vulnerable, tiny newborns; encourages the sick and lonely and their families; and offers peace during patients’ last days. Congratulations and deepest thanks to Sister Mary Jo for being the face, heart, and hands of Providence to the people in southern California. New faces in vocation ministry Sister Joni Luna is the new Sisters of Providence director of vocations. She will accompany women as they explore and discern...
Allowing for God’s presence: Sisters of Providence hospital chaplains
...and trials. Working together Sister Mary Jo Piccione is present to these new parents in her ministry as hospital chaplain in Apple Valley, California. As chaplain at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Apple Valley, California, Sister Mary Jo Piccione, SP, has learned the art of “getting out of the way.” She observes that sometimes the chaplain needs to step aside and let someone else be the minister. She observed a young nurse struggling with the same issues as a patient....
Sister Jessica Vitente professes first vows
For Sister Jessica Vitente, Saturday, August 14, 2021, almost seems like a blur. Sister Jessica, a native of Pomona, California, entered the Congregation on September 10, 2018. And on Saturday, August 14, she professed first vows as a Sister of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, during a celebration in the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sister Jessica Vitente on the day of her vows “The liturgy and day happened so fast,” Sister Jessica admitted. “And I am...
Sister Agnes Maureen Badura
...She entered the Sisters of Providence in July of 1947, took first vows in 1950 and final vows in 1955. She later wrote, “The possibility of affecting the lives of so many students and other persons never really entered my mind when I joined the Community. I thought simply of using the gifts God had given me to be of help to others. I also never dreamed I would travel as much as I have in Community, teaching in California,...
Sister Rosemary Borntrager (formerly Sister Rose Cecile)
...her “psychiatrist.” She had several flower beds around Owens Hall and also used her talents in the chapel to create liturgical environments. She did not use her artistic talent in a formal way beyond her six years of teaching art. She did, however, do a watercolor exhibit as part of her sabbatical experience and later designed cards for Linden Leaf Gifts. Another SO Rosemary story was related by Sister Janice Smith. While ministering in California, she was awakened at 5...
Sister Carolyn Glynn (formerly Sister John Michael)
...spent 22 years as a primary teacher in Indiana, Massachusetts, California and Illinois. After completing her ministry degree in 1980, she served in parish ministry for 12 years in the Chicago archdiocese and then for seven years in the diocese of Venice, Florida. Providence Associate Sheila Donis was a first grader in Sister Carolyn’s first class at St. Mel in Chicago and recalled that Sister Carolyn told the whole class to put on their coats, go outside and go home...
Sister Paula Damiano: Full Circle
...a world beyond the Catholic Church filled with other faithful followers of God. These experiences were foundational to her later involvement with the Interfaith Council of the Wabash Valley. Admiration Growing up in Pennsylvania, Sister Paula wanted to become a religious sister. But when she moved to California, she temporarily set that desire aside. It was during her junior year at Marywood High School, when most were planning where they would attend college that she began to reconsider becoming a...
Sister Alma Louise Mescher
...children, Marjorie Anne Mescher was born Jan. 6, 1915, in Burlington, Iowa, to Alois and Florence (Krueper) Mescher. The family moved to California where the children attended Holy Cross Grade School, Los Angeles. Sister Alma Louise graduated from Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles. She then entered Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles where she earned a bachelor’s degree in education. “Sister Alma Louise always felt a call to religious life and felt that it was a fortuitous circumstance that...
Sister Sue Pietrus
...mission and a community who encouraged her to use the talent she possessed to the fullest. She never stopped. That sense of mission probably wore out her body, but never dimmed her spirit. Her first mission as a Sister of Providence was Marywood High School in California. As if the regular teaching load wasn’t enough, Sue promptly started a chorus for the many foreign students living in the dorm there at the time. The mix of accents was incredible —...
Sister Elizabeth Rose Weisenbach
...Indianapolis; and St. Jude, Fort Wayne. In Chicago, she ministered at St. Mark, St. Angela and Immaculate Conception. She spent four years in California at St. Joseph, Hawthorne, and St. Therese, Alhambra. In the 1970s, Sister Elizabeth Rose changed her ministry focus by enrolling in a Clinical Pastoral Education program. She served hospitals in Indianapolis and Louisville, Ky. She served two years as a pastoral associate at St. John, Newburgh, Ind. In the early 1980s, Sister Elizabeth Rose served in...