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“You are worth everything” Sister Barbara Sheehan and Urban CPE Consortium
...as human. Every person feels welcome.” Ezra said it made a deep impact on him to hear Sister Barbara say, “You are worth everything.” Sister Barbara said those words stem from her growing understanding of the relationship we have with God. Sister Barbara Sheehan, right, visits with homeless men as they wait in line for a sandwich at one of the Night Ministry stops where Urban CPE Consortium in Chicago assists. “Each person is totally loved by God and has...
Disrupting apathy and injustice: Sister Tracey Horan and World Meeting of Popular Movements
Indiana delegation to the U.S. Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements. The group includes members of grassroots movements, organizers and people in church leadership from the Indianapolis Archdiocese and the Diocese of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Sister Tracey Horan is at front left. “Now, we must all become disruptors.” Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego addressed a crowd of nearly 600 clergy, women religious, and grassroots activists at the first regional meeting of the World Meeting of Popular Movements. Bishop McElroy...
No time for despair: climate change reality
...driving the denial narrative in this part of our world. This is not a partisan issue. To be sure, the shift from fossil fuels has been painful for our friends and neighbors working in those industries. But a recent study estimated that the cost of taking the roughly 70,000 people in the United States currently working in the coal industry, retraining them for a new career and relocating them, if necessary, would cost about $180 million. In citing the relatively...
Online exclusive: Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and Sisters of Providence seek more collaboration
...more collaborative future. President King, a Providence Associate, spoke of her excitement about bringing the two groups together. She called it the “beginning of conversations to come.” Trustee Alice Shelton said the retreat was very important. “The public tends to view Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and the Sisters of Providence as being very close together.” Providence Associate Susan Weber facilitated the retreat. Trustees and MAB members defined what they meant by cooperation, coordination and collaboration. They reviewed current collaborations occurring, from...
Newsnotes HOPE summer 2017
...Sisters of Providence in Jasper, Indiana. More than 20 Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates attended the celebration. The festivities included a one-woman dramatic presentation on Saint Mother Theodore by Providence Associate Sandra Hartlieb, Mass with the bishop, the statue blessing/dedication and a reception for sisters, parishioners and guests. 40 years! Sister Theresa Clare Carr was honored Feb. 19 with a special Mass and reception celebrating her retirement after 40 years teaching at Nativity School in Indianapolis. Sister Theresa Clare...
Singing for the sisters
...and me, Providence Associate Sheila Donis, to sing along with him. The most touching duet was that of Rod and Sister Terese Marie Havlik, Rod’s 8th grade teacher, whom he hadn’t seen in almost 49 years. Sister Terese Marie knew every word, sang and moved gently to the music. Rod Marino “The Casual Crooner” entertains in Providence Health Care with his former 8th-grade teacher Sister Terese Marie Havlik and his wife Diane. Rod has had Parkinson’s disease for 17 years....
Go out and make a difference
...pay a six-figure salary. On the contrary, I have no earthly idea where the pursuit will take me, but I am learning to trust in Providence. The Providence, which, our foundress Saint Mother Theodore reminds us, “has never failed us.” When I look at the person in the mirror, I like who I am becoming. Invitation to “go out and make a difference” I had an opportunity to see and meet Sister Joan Chittister at a conference in San Antonio,...
Sister Tracey Horan recognized by USCCB
...thank the leadership of the USCCB for their support of work that puts faith into action to create a more just world. The Bishop’s Conference in Indiana under the leadership of then Archbishop, now Cardinal Tobin, followed by Bishop Rhodes, and soon to be Archbishop Thompson has made social justice a priority. Ralph McCloud, the National Director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and our local Archdiocesan Director, David Bethuram, who help ensure the campaign’s ability to change systemic...
One step at a time: Sister Dina on upcoming vows
...Undoubtedly, I am merely an instrument that has said yes to the Holy Spirit along the way, not always willingly. God has beckoned me to move forward day by day to do the next right thing. May God’s will be done in this life, and may all glory be given to God alone! With all my heart, I say, “Yes, my God!” “When the darkness falls on my final days, take the very breath that sang your praise. Give me...
Providence Juniorate and Aspirancy 2017
Over 120 women reminisced, laughed, sang and danced at the Providence Juniorate/Aspirancy reunion June 23, 2017. Sisters Dorothy Rasche and Joseph Fillenwarth provided an update on their ministries while a raffle for the quilt stitched by Sister Lucy Lechner and Merry Dragon raised $171 for each of the ministries....
Sustainable farm living and learning
...from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College to Indiana State University. Elaine Haby, of Hondo, Texas, is a 2017 graduate of Texas A&M University in Kingsville with a degree in animal science pre-vet. Ezra Kyle Meadors, who began his internships on Nov. 11, has a journalism degree from Brigham Young University and master’s in communications from University of Central Florida will be heading back home to Chicago in early August. Sasha Pitkofsky, of San Carlos, California, is a recent graduate of New Haven...
News Notes
...in need of food, gas, money, furniture, clothing or basic services since it began in 1997. TheConnectingLink.SistersofProvidence.org High School reunion at the Woods Alumnae of the former high school at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods for girls considering entering the Sisters of Providence gathered June 23, 2017. More than 120 women reminisced, laughed, sang and danced at the Providence Juniorate/Aspirancy reunion. The high school was in operation from the 1930s until 1965. (Originally published in the Fall 2017 issue of HOPE magazine.)...