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Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp says there’s more to do after receiving Lifetime Achievement Award
...served previously on the faculty at the University of San Francisco where she was director of teacher education for the entire USF system and a member of USF’s Institute for Catholic Education Leadership. Sister Jeanne helped found Providence Cristo Rey High School in Indianapolis. It is a Catholic, co-educational, college preparatory high school for economically disadvantaged on the near west side of Indianapolis. She mentioned that this is the second time she has been honored by the city of Indianapolis....
Grandma’s rituals: Holy Week & Easter 2013
...— the chapel of the Felician sisters. This chapel had “a scaffold” erected to the side of the sanctuary. On the top of the scaffold was a cross. The message was clear — even to a kid. This was no ordinary time of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. The crucifixion of Jesus was near. Good Friday, between noon and three, Grandma would sit my sister, brother and me on three chairs in our living room. We could not talk to...
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: a place of welcome
...of heart.” ~ Jeanne Stanbaugh Terre Haute “The beauty, the simplicity and the warmth of the many faces that call the Woods home will bring you back! It’s a special place where I step on the grounds and feel an overall sense of peace and tranquility. There’s a strong connection.” ~ Susan Dinkel Terre Haute Saint Ann Shell Chapel at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Saint Mary’s feels welcoming to me because it feels like home. I spent some of my most formative...
Reclaim the season of Advent
Reclaim the season of Advent. Create an Advent wreath and mark the days and weeks leading up to Christmas. Advent is my favorite season of the Liturgical Year. I love this quiet time before Christmas. It isn’t a penitential time like Lent. It is a time of quiet anticipation. Anticipation is naturally in the air. Children certainly anticipate Santa Claus and time off from school. Adults anticipate a break from work, getting together with family and friends, the chance to...
Thirteen Sisters of Providence celebrate 60 years with SPs
...Kofler served in Brownsburg at St. Malachy School (1959-1961). Sister currently volunteers in immigration services in Chicago. Sister Jeanette Marie Lucinio ministered in Sellersburg (1955-1956) and at St. James the Greater School in Indianapolis (1959-1960). She currently ministers as director of the office for women religious in the diocese of San Diego in California. Sister Ann Paula Pohlman, a native of Indianapolis, taught at St. Catherine School (1968-1974) and served as principal there (1974-1976). Sister currently tutors at St. Joseph...
Life-changing technology
...Denise Wilkinson’s response declares an end to an invention from her childhood: correction fluid. “I’d have to say it is Microsoft Word software,” she said. “I am a terrible typist and the software saves my sanity — no more Wite-Out™!” Sister Su-Hsin, age 48, values relationships. A native of Taiwan, Sister Su-Hsin is glad computer technology exists to help her stay in touch with loved ones. “It really helps me to connect with my family,” she said. “I have used...
Our Lady of Providence Shrine to be re-dedicated
...the painting. After his work in Rome was completed, Monsignor Rawlinson traveled to the Church of San Carlo, where the Barnabite Fathers showed him the Shrine of Our Lady of Providence. The Sisters of Providence shrine was established in 1928 and remained in place in Foley Hall until 1989, when Foley Hall was demolished. The shrine was then moved to the Providence Spirituality and Conference Center, which became the official “front door,” to the Sisters of Providence community. About the...
Anniversary of our first mission
...was a public school. In 1917 the sisters received word that in the future every teacher in the country who had taught in a public school for 35 years would benefit from a retirement fund, and would then retire from the public schools. A new school building was completed during the 1926-27 school year. Beginning in June 1942 the Benedictines withdrew, and diocesan clergy were assigned. In 1943 the Jasper City Schools took over providing the salaries, including the principal...
Volunteering for your future
...for volunteering; all students are required to have 20 hours of volunteer work per semester, which, of course, was not a problem for Mandy, who spent countless hours volunteering at A Caring Place in Indianapolis under Sister Susan Dinnin. After graduation, Mandy plans to earn a master’s degree in healthcare administration with an emphasis in nursing home administration. “After working with Gerald [director of Providence Health Care] and realizing how much I love an environment like this, I know I...
Sister Kathleen Bernadette Smith: Joyful collaboration in a prophetic mission
Sister Kathleen Bernadette Smith, center, serves as godmother at the baptism of this infant several years ago at St. Felicitas Parish in Chicago. Sister Kathleen has served as pastoral associate there for nearly 20 years. Sister Kathleen Bernadette Smith has ministered almost 20 years as a pastoral associate at St. Felicitas Parish in Chicago. She collaborates with parish staff, parishioners, local community leaders, archdiocesan and SP-led teams and committees to proclaim the Gospel in a joyful, prophetic way richly textured...
Father Daniel Hopcus to celebrate 50-year Jubilee
...Dan attended the Los Angeles College Junior Seminary for four years, followed by two years of junior college at Our Lady Queen of Angels, San Fernando, Calif. He then studied theology at St. John’s Theology, Camarillo, Calif., for four years before being ordained. Father Dan was ordained in 1964 within the Orange Diocese. He began his ministry as an associate pastor for Holy Family, Orange, Calif., (1964-69), followed by a stint at St. Joan of Arc, West Los Angeles, (1969-74),...
Honored for service!
...she said, “really interested me.” “I felt we had exploited Mexico so systematically and over such a long period of time that we owed them something,” Sister Carol said. “But as I had previously arranged to spend three years in Taiwan, the ministry in Mexico did not materialize.” After the stop in Taiwan, Sister Carol traveled to California to work in the diocese of San Bernardino. After researching what needs were a high priority, she learned the most underserved area...