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Oral history: Sister Cathy Campbell the storyteller
...for the interview unless he was going to offer her the job. As she hung up, Cathy admits she questioned her own sanity. But Bo Connor appreciated strong women on his staff. Soon thereafter, Cathy received a “start” date to begin as Teen Star Editor. One-way trip Sister Cathy lights a candle at a Sisters of Providence Chapter in 2016 She did the job for a year. And again, Providence took hold. Even though Cathy loved the Teen Star...
Sisters of Providence celebrating Jubilees
...from Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. Her ministries include: Teacher, Providence Cristo Rey High School, Indianapolis (2008-09), Teacher/Mission Program Coordinator, Guerin College Preparatory High School, River Grove, Ill., St. Therese Chinese Catholic Church, Chicago, (2012-13) Teacher, Guerin College Preparatory High School (2013-16), and Teacher, Oldenburg Academy of the Immaculate Conception, Oldenburg, Ind. (2016-21). Sister Susan Paweski was born in Chicago. Currently, she ministers as the Co-Director of Providence Associates for the Congregation and resides in Brookfield, Ill. Sister Susan entered...
Rejoice with us: A Silver Jubilee Reflection
Note: The following is the reflection General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, SP, provided for the Silver Jubilee celebration on Saturday, August 19, honoring Sisters Anji Fan and Sue Paweski for 25 years as Sisters of Providence. It seems to me that there is no better way to mark this silver jubilee celebration of Sisters Anji Fan and Susan Paweski than to use the words of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin that they themselves chose to have read to us this afternoon....
Sisters of Providence welcome new postulant
...of the Lake University in San Antonio. She also earned a master’s degree in early childhood development at Texas A&M, also in San Antonio. After receiving her master’s degree, Stephanie started teaching at a reservation in South Dakota, but COVID-19 reared its ugly head and she began to feel something might need to change. “I wasn’t expecting to not be with students,” she said. “So, I used that time to teach and discern.” Following her teaching stint in South Dakota,...
Honor your favorite Sister of Providence
...me to my lifelong friends, and directed me not only in musical, performances but in life. She taught me the meaning of Henry Van Dyke’s quote, ‘The Woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.'” — Angela White, SMWC class of 1986, pictured center with Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, left, and the late Sister Sue Pietrus, right Donate in honor of your favorite sisters Originally published in the Fall 2023 issue of HOPE magazine....
Sister Marilyn Kofler: Breaking boundaries through education and gentle influence
...were mostly men. Because of my position in the Archdiocesan Schools Religious Education office, I frequently was the token woman,” she explains. Her place in the Catholic Church: Sister Marilyn at Mass, one of her most beloved forms of prayer. Despite a call to priesthood, a dedicated lifetime of service in the Church and having earned a doctorate in ministry, Sister Marilyn remains in the pews due to her gender. How did Sister Marilyn make a difference in her long...
Crossing the bridge into community: Postulant Stephanie Rivas
...Crossing over Stephanie Rivas knocks on the door of Providence Hall during her entrance ceremony to the Sisters of Providence in September. In September, Stephanie Rivas became the newest woman to join Sisters of Providence. Being a risk taker and breaking boundaries is not new to Stephanie. The first in her family to earn a college degree, she attended Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. She began a career at a community college using her business...
Oral history: Sister Barbara Ann Bluntzer
...Childhood church Sister Barbara Ann’s father was Catholic, and she attended church with him in nearby San Patricio, a small village that had been settled by Irish Catholics. It had become a skeleton town in the 1930s and ‘40s, with a few homes, a filling station, and a small church with a pump organ played by Barbara Ann’s cousin. San Patricio is still there, a small village that hosts the “World Championship Rattlesnake Race” attended by a great crowd each...
Sister Mary Catherine Keene
...her that she was “like her favorite flower, the Sunflower. She seemed to spread sunshine herself.” And Sister Susan Dinnin recalled how her heartwarming laughter made the day a better one for everyone at A Caring Place. Sister Mary Catherine loved life and loved it passionately. From her earliest years, she was completely enthralled and fascinated by life in all its forms – from the tiny chicks and the horses on the farm, to the dogs and cats and the...
A Note from Providence Associates Jane Fischer and Pearlette Springer, September 11, 2024
...develop as early as preschool” (p. 108). Surely not! I came from a great town with wonderful teachers! But I do have early recollections of first seeing a black person…and the admonishment I received from my grandmother for walking on the lawn of a non-Catholic church that was next to her house. Where did I learn to identify someone as non-Catholic? Here’s a common sentence from my small-town childhood: I played with Susan today…she’s not Catholic. I couldn’t say that...
Lourdes and the Immaculate Conception
...in the local dialect, “Que soy era Immaculada Counceptiou.” The translation is, “I am the Immaculate Conception.” Bernadette was astonished. She did not know what the phrase could mean. The official Lourdes Sanctuaire site explains, “Bernadette was ignorant of the fact that this theological expression was assigned to the Blessed Virgin. Four years earlier, in 1854, Pope Pius IX declared this a truth of the Catholic Faith.” The Lourdes grotto at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods An ‘Important Belief’ The Immaculate Conception is...
Sister Monica (Patricia Ann) Withem
...Monica had volunteered for the mission in China, it was to Peru that the Congregation sent her in 1963 to teach at the Colegio San Jose in Arequipa. Before going there, she and the other sisters assigned to the mission studied Spanish in a ten-week course at Georgetown University. She was a scholar of language and studied diligently, but she was frustrated by her difficulty in speaking Spanish. Sister Monica remained in Arequipa, except for one short period back in...