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My Current Situation in Asia: A Quadrillion Blessings
Sister Anne Therese Falkenstein Note: This blog was written by Sister Anne Therese Falkenstein, Professor/Special Assistant to the President and Trustee at Providence University, Taichung Taiwan. To say that my life as a Sister of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods has been abundantly blessed is an understatement. I entered the Community in 1979 and had the privilege of teaching in schools in California and Chicago prior to becoming involved in Asia in February 1995. During my first two years in Taiwan,...
HOPE winter 2018 — The bonds that unite us
...Whole classes of people face discrimination on a daily basis because of how their realities overlap: discrimination in housing, the workplace, our churches, our criminal justice system, health care, our immigration system. Online only! 2017 alumnae reunion photos Find photos and updates from alumnae reunions! Immaculata, Washington D.C. Indianapolis All Girls Catholic High Schools Reunion. Marywood, Evanston, Illinois. Marywood, Orange, California. Providence High School, Chicago. Providence Juniorate/Aspirancy. St. John Academy, Indianapolis. St. Rose Academy, Vincennes, Indiana. Newsnotes Obituaries Upcoming events...
Sisters honored at annual Bishop’s Dinner
...the event. In addition, almost all the Sisters of Providence in southern California were present at the dinner; their tickets were provided by Margaret Monahan, a long-time friend of the community who also attended the gala. Also in attendance were April and Don Bradley, members of the National Advisory Board of Guerin Outreach Ministries, the umbrella organization of Providence in the Desert. The name of the Amar Es Entregarse Award is the bishop’s episcopal motto. It means “Love is the...
Giving Voice scholarship awardee in Oaxaca, Mexico
...days. I felt I had landed in the arms of Providence after meeting Sister Hermana Soledad Hernandez, of Trinitarians of Mary from California. She was staying with her biological sister for a few more days in the same house I would be staying. What a blessing she was to me during those first few hours upon my arrival. Thank you, Hermana Soledad, for your kindness. I started school officially on July 9, but I felt my education started the moment...
Simbang Gabi the Terre Haute way!
...As a young adult, I remember the first time I went to the Philippines for Christmas (2003). That is when I heard about Simbang Gabi. My cousins invited me to go. I was turned off by waking up at 4 a.m., so I didn’t go. In 2014, for the first time, I completed the nine-day novena by attending the 5 a.m. Masses at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Rowland Heights, California. Some believe that if you complete the nine-day...
Newsnotes: winter 2019 updates from the Sisters of Providence
Welcome Jessica! We are so blessed! Jessica Vitente of California officially entered the Sisters of Providence as a postulant Sept. 10, 2018. Here Jessica shows off the key to her new home at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods during a welcoming ceremony. Sister Jeanette Lucinio, SP, who accompanied her on her journey, is at left and General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, SP, is at right. Baby Ruth This fall we welcomed a new baby (cria) to our herd of alpacas. Providence Ruth was...
Thanking the Sisters through social media
...the SPs!” Hard at work, Sister Carol Nolan helps Rufina Martinez improve her English. While she was a student at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Sirrea Hayes Whittaker had an English class with Sister Rosemary Nudd, which affected her profoundly. Sister Rosemary Nudd “She helped develop my understanding of Shakespeare,” Sirrea said. “I still take a moment of reflection.” Carol Cragin Howe was taught by the Sisters of Providence at St. Anthony of Padua School in Gardena, California. “From Sister Marie Michael...
Sister Jessica Vitente enters novitiate with Sisters of Providence
...in human development from California State University, Long Beach. Sister Marsha Speth and the rest of the Congregation applaud for their new novice, Sister Jessica Vitente During her canonical novice year, Sister Jessica and Sister Janice Smith, who ministers as the Congregation’s director of novices, will live in St. Louis at the Collaborative Dominican Novitiate (CDN). This particular entity consists of women from various Dominican communities all of whom are part of the larger Inter-community Novitiate (ICN) study program of...
Faces of our future: a new generation of Sisters of Providence
...organizer at NETWORK — a Catholic social justice lobby in Washington, D.C. Emily is living in a local community with two other Sisters of Providence in the D.C. area. Sister Jessica Vitente Sister Jessica Vitente was received into the novitiate of the Sisters of Providence on Saturday, Aug. 3. Sister Jessica is from California and first “discovered” the Sisters of Providence at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress where she visited our information booth and met Sister Editha Ben, our...
Sister Marie Alexis Geiger
...our band entered, we seemed to enter in clusters. We had one sister from California, but also five from the East, six or seven from the Chicago area, and five from Saint John in Indianapolis, Sister Marie Alexis’ alma mater, and eight from the Juniorate. You would think that would put us into cliques but instead, from the very beginning, we clicked as a group, united but not always docile. Our novitiate was strict, but our fun-loving solidarity got us...
Sister Mary Jo Piccione honored by Diocese
...Stephen Damiani, a Public Health Physician, “Sister Mary Jo is aligned with Father Damien in her total immersion in her ministry at St. Mary’s Hospital as ‘Cultural Competency.’ She has a calming and comforting presence at that very crucial and vulnerable moment for the sick and dying.” Sister Mary Jo ministers as a Chaplain at Providence-Saint Mary’s Medical Center in Apple Valley, California. The Indianapolis native has ministered at the center for 10 years. In her reaction to receiving the...
The reunion finale for Providence High School
“You ARE and HAVE BEEN pretty amazing!” Sister Dawn Tomaszewski told this to the 475 alumnae who attended the final Providence High School Homecoming Luncheon, which took place on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, at The Diplomat West Banquets near Chicago. Sister Dawn with Janet Trzaskas (left) and Lorraine Niski Trzaskas (right). Janet went to Mother Theodore Guerin High School and Lorraine graduated from Providence High School in 1944. She traveled from California to attend the reunion. Graduates attending the gala...