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Finding courage and joy as a caregiver
...insisted on being in her own home. A home she had lived in for over seventy years! Sister Bernadette Mary had just retired from her ministry working in the Los Angeles parish office. In order to care for her sister, she would have to forego her planned move to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and move to Pasadena, California. As Catherine’s caregiver, Sister Bernadette Mary cooked, cleaned, shopped for groceries, administered medications, and drove her sister to and from appointments; anything she could...
Sister Lourdes Kline
...schools across the country. Among them were Marywood, Anaheim, California; Providence High School, Chicago; Marywood, Evanston, Illinois; and at other high schools in Galesburg, Illinois, and Fort Wayne. She loved to teach math. She earned a master’s degree in education from St. Louis University and also spent summers at a variety of colleges and universities to become certified to teach home economics. She taught in that program at Immaculata Junior College in the late 1950s. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College was her...
Providence Associates living out their commitments
Providence Associates strive to live out within their own lives the Sisters of Providence mission of honoring divine Providence by works of love, mercy and justice in service among God’s people. What this looks like played out in individual lives is full of variety. These photos show some of our associates in action. Providence Associate Joann Kennelly of Gardena, California, second from left, lives out her commitment as a Providence Associate in her retired years by ministering to senior citizens....
When I’m rich: Providence dreams in the Desert
...centers around a small town in the California Central Valley, near Bakersfield. The Central Valley produces a huge percentage of the year-round crops that feed our entire country and beyond every year. Nearly everyone in the town is Latino. The high school boys work in the fields with their fathers before and after school, and no one seems to have any thought that they might have a better future. This scene of laborers hard at work in the fields is...
All things possible: Sister Marilú Covani
...said. “I really felt called to work with the Hispanic Catholics in the United States. I asked to come here [Southern California] after my canonical novitiate year.” She has served as pastoral coordinator for Hispanic ministry and coordinator of Hispanic Liturgy in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. She now serves as director for worship for the Diocese of San Bernardino. She also has helped lay women at Casa Providencia, where women contemplated religious life while living, working and studying with...
“Sister” gathers the bills at the theatre
...Nite Catechism. So, Mary stands at the door as “Sister” and gathers in the bills as people leave the theatre. Still very much in her “Sister” role, I’m told that she lays quite a guilt trip on anyone who tries to pass her by without placing something in the “hat.” She has taken that stance often in theaters in the Chicago area, but she’s also performed the play in other states: California, Michigan, Iowa, Massachusetts, Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania,...
Sister Alexa Suelzer
...I was still living in California and when I was home for a pre-chapter meeting, I decided to see if Alexa would be open to helping me discern. I asked her if she had some time for me to do some discerning with her. She looked me straight in the eye and said, “Well, I will talk with you, but I am not going to vote for you.” Sometime later, when we were living together, she told me that in...
Sister Margaret Louise Bernard
...deathbed. Maggie entered the Congregation in 1943. Given her easy disposition and her ability to enter any situation with grace and competency, she was changed from one mission to another every two years or so. She taught in California, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland and Florida. When Maggie was missioned at St. Anthony’s in Indianapolis, the doctor diagnosed blindness in one eye. Maggie never told anyone lest she be taken out of a classroom. When she recounted the event years later,...
Hospitality remains a strong charism of the SPs
...doors in Owens Hall; those that lead out to the courtyard area. Over the past 48 years I would return to the Woods from California or Chicago or Terre Haute and chuckle to find the signs in the same place, year after year. Now that Owens Hall is “closing”, the signs have taken on a whole new meaning for me. “KEEP THIS DOOR CLOSED AT ALL TIMES. THANK YOU.” It’s been anything but! The doors to Owens have never been...
What brings you here? What are you searching for?
Providence Associate candidate Jeanne Rewa spends some time with her Sister of Providence companion Sister Rita Clare Gerardot at the Providence Associate orientation Oct. 10 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. We’re all searching for something, aren’t we? This past Saturday, 36 new Providence Associate candidates gathered for orientation at Saint Mary of-the-Woods. (Two couldn’t make it and four more will gather for an orientation in California soon, bringing this year’s total number of Providence Associate candidates to 42!) One of my favorite...
Three Sisters of Providence celebrating Golden Jubilees
...Jo, formerly Sister Mary Joel, entered the Congregation on Sept. 12, 1966, from Holy Name, Beech Grove. She professed perpetual vows on Aug. 15, 1978. She graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. She received an associate of applied science degree in nursing from Indiana Central. Sister Mary Jo has ministered in Indiana, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and California. Sister Linda Thompson Sister Linda Thompson is a native of Orange, Calif. Currently, she ministers as a...
Sister Ann Kevin O’Connor
...elementary teacher and principal in several states (Indiana, Illinois, Texas, Missouri and California) for 34 years; service as support staff in schools, and for provincial and Congregation administrators and in Congregation departments at the Woods (the Mission Advancement office, the Office of Records, White Violet Center and Residential Services). There may be many former students of Ann Kevin’s “out there,” who felt about her teaching the same way as former sixth-grade student, Tom Gawne, now a retired teacher himself. Tom...