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Sister Elizabeth Grannan
...way to chapel and grabbed a chaplet from the hook belonging to tall Sister Marie Esther. Of course, Betty’s then was dragging on the floor and Marie Esther was up above her knee. At her Golden Jubilee celebration, Betty did the reading from Acts in which the angel says to Peter, “Hurry, get up! … Fasten your belt and your sandals!” But instead, she read, “Fasten your seatbelt,” and caused a few snickers from those who were alert. When she...
Annual gathering of Providence Associates 2014
...Ellen Kehoe, Barbara Bluntzer and Nancy Nolan. Sisters Marie Victoria Podesta and Mary Imelda Coulup greet Providence Associate Sheila Donis during Sunday’s social. Providence Associate Maria Fan, right, engages in lively conversation with Sister of Providence Charles Van Hoy at Sunday’s social. White Violet Center for Eco-Justice Director Lorrie Heber hands the microphone off to Providence Associate Kathleen Morris as tables report their discussion on the land ethic to the larger group. The group from Kentucky sang their state proud...
A companion in the dying and rising of daily life: Sister Jane Iannaccone
...I invite the children up to the sanctuary to help. In this ministry I feel I have come full circle. I am once again involved directly with little ones and teaching them. I am not only educating the children but also their parents. Often in my daily encounters, people are experiencing great sorrow and pain. I cannot take their pain away. However, I can be a supportive caring presence. I am willing to stay with them in their pain. I...
Cleveland bishop: value in women’s leadership
...God and God’s people, and they bring different perspectives and aspects of human relationships to conversations and decision-making that enrich the whole process,” Bishop Lennon stated. “When I was ordained in 1973 for the Archdiocese of Boston, the women in ministry I knew were involved in schools and catechetical endeavors. Especially after Vatican II’s Decree on the Laity, I have observed women broaden and deepen their involvement in various pastoral and diocesan roles,” he said. “In the last 40 years,...
Ministry in the marriage tribunal
Sister Evelyn Ovalles Editor’s Note: Several Sisters of Providence minister in church diocesan marriage tribunals. Here they help people who are divorced and want to remarry within the Catholic Church to navigate the process to a marriage annulment. Currently divorced Catholics who remarry without first receiving an annulment are excluded from receiving sacraments. Here Sister Ann Casper interviews three sisters who serve in marriage tribunals: Sister Maureen Abbott (formerly Sister Maureen Francis), defender of the bond and case instructor in...
90s Party 2014
...Sister Mary Maxine Teipen Sister Ann Casper and Sister Mary Roger Madden Sister Mary Imelda Coulup and Sister Mildred Giesler Sister Suzanne Smith and Sister Francis Edwards Sister Alexa Suelzer and Sister Suzanne Smith Sister Su-Hsin Huang and Sister Rosalie Marie Weller Sister Mary Moloney and Sister Marceline Mattingly Sister Mary Esther Lane and Sister Joyce Brophy Sister Marilyn Trobaugh and Sister Mary Loyola Bender Sister Mary Terrence Haag and Sister Susan Dinnin Sister Joan Kirkpatrick and Sister Rita Lerner...
Filled with the life of our dear Mother Theodore
...in that chapel will mirror her love of God’s creation. The Woods WAS her sanctuary. For her, God was all in all. Will these symbols, will this new shrine touch the pilgrims who travel here and grant them grace and strength for their own journey? It already has. Mark Joseph Costello, OFM, the liturgical design consultant and creative mastermind of this project, reminisced yesterday about the eight-year journey to create this shrine. “Mother Theodore really meant nothing to me when...
Immaculata High School time capsule from 1955 to be opened Saturday
...Lisa Stallings will welcome those in attendance and also offer a blessing prior to the opening of the time capsule. In addition, Tenleytown Historical Society Advisory board member and Immaculata Preparatory 1969 graduate Susan Jacquet, and Sister Marian Brady – who served as Immaculata College President from 1967-81 – will speak, along with a host of others. The opening of the capsule coincides with the Immaculata All-Schools Reunion, which will begin at noon on Sunday, Oct. 12, at the Kenwood...
Sister Barbara Ann Zeller: modern-day foundress
Sister Barbara Ann Zeller is CEO and founder of Providence Self-Sufficiency Ministries in Georgetown, Indiana. Like Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and her companions who sank the roots of Providence into the wilderness of Indiana 174 years ago, Sister Barbara Ann Zeller continues the course of planting Providence. Over the past 20 years, Sister Barbara has founded in Georgetown, Indiana, a multi-faceted campus that serves peoples’ real and complex needs. At Providence House you will find reunification and strengthening homes for...
Patricia Gray, Montrose, CO: “It has been a privilege”
...and the alumnae with moderators Sister Gertrude Helene, Sister Annette Cecile and Sister Susan Paweski, and now to have a lay-led association, helped greatly by Rosie Blankenship, with hearts still burning for the Sisters of Providence. I hope to visit at St. Mary of the Woods this coming summer. In the meantime, I am already on your mailing list by email, and enjoy visiting your website. May God bless you all, multiply the work of your hands (and minds and...
Sister Dorothy Marie Ahern
...making her final vows here a year later. She earned bachelor’s degrees in English and in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, and a master’s degree in education from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. Sister Dorothy Marie was known as an excellent teacher, but not many teachers wanted her as their principal, for she was reported to be very strict, especially on teachers. Sister Bernadette Mary relates the story that a teacher made an error in her...
Warm hearts welcome postulant Anna Fan
General Superior Sister Denise Wilkinson (right), gives postulant Anna Fan a hug after the entrance ceremony. A winter chill was not about to dampen anyone’s spirits Thursday evening, Nov. 13, when Anna Fan entered the postulancy with the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. After a short, candle-lit prayer service in Owens Hall with Sister Editha Ben, vocation director, the two sang a short Taizé Magnificat in Chinese that would be sung again with the larger group. She and Sister...