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Providence Family Services: support and welcome for the neighbor
...in Chicago. Delores lives in the Humboldt Park neighborhood in Chicago and attends Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish there. “In the beginning, I kind of shied away. I thought, a nun, are you kidding? But I was really, really sad. So I went. And I just kept coming back,” she said. Delores jokes about being the longest returning client. She said she has sought help from Sister Patty at Providence Family Services, a ministry of the Sisters of...
Former Sisters of Providence General Superior passes away
...Sister. I know I was influenced by the Sisters who taught me. That is important because my two sisters joined the Community before I did, but I remembered I wanted to join before they did.” Sister Nancy earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, a master’s degree in education from the University of Illinois and another master’s degree in pastoral studies from Loyola University in Chicago. Her teaching ministries took her to schools in Indianapolis, Chicago and...
Sister Joanna Valentino (formerly Sister Marie Dominic)
...which we were created: To use our gifts to love and serve our God and those around us. Her early days in ministry were in teaching at Lockport, Illinois, and Saint Andrew’s and Francis Borgia’s in Chicago. At Saint John’s Bellewood, she was principal; and, then had the pain-filled experience of closing the school where she was unjustifiably accused of being the “cause” of its closing. In Chicago, she was principal at Our Lady of Sorrows, a teacher and administrative...
Sister Marie Victoria Podesta
...to be read at her wake, said Sister Margaret Quinlan in her commentary for Sister Marie Victoria, who Tuesday, Sept. 8. She was 92 years old and has been a Sister of Providence for 71 years. Considering her dedication to the life and mission of the community, this reading is appropriate. In 1994, Sister Marie Victoria received an award from former students who were then at Gordon Tech in Chicago, stating that she was the most influential teacher they had...
Honoring all our work: a history of Labor Day
American Railway Union workers on strike confront Illinois National Guard troops during the Chicago Pullman Strike. Grover Cleveland signed into law Labor Day as a national holiday six days after the the dispute ended. Labor Day will be celebrated Sept. 5 this year. It is a statutory holiday, signed into law by President Grover Cleveland in 1894, six days after Chicago’s Pullman Strike was quelled. The strike came after many unresolved disputes between George Pullman, the president of the Pullman...
Cubs win! Sisters react to Chicago Cubs’ World Series victory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3AlcTNzB8A General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski and Sister Nancy Nolan https://youtu.be/3ELUMMv-Qt0 Sister Alice Ann Rhinesmith https://youtu.be/zvd2MeG5HA4 Sister Maureen Ann McCarthy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYRX44RbvBo Sister Noralee Keefe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rHV5vQsePs Sister Rita Clare Gerardot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Kz-bQRyFI Sister Mary Cecile Grojean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aBkShY2CHk Sister Rosemary Nudd Sister Nancy Nolan and General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, were founded by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin in 1840. More than 30 years later, the Chicago Cubs history began, as the team joined the National...
Sister Ruth Ellen Doane
...of northwestern Illinois. We traveled to Chicago to experience the CITY and be of service at Providence-St. Mel High School. We were warmly welcomed by Paul Adams and Sister Ruth Ellen. Ellen coordinated our time with work projects, eating in the cafeteria with students, and observing some classroom experiences. A highlight was an extracurricular side trip one evening to The Second City Comedy Club and theatre in downtown Chicago. Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp remembers: “Ruth Ellen and Paul Adams gave me...
“You are worth everything” Sister Barbara Sheehan and Urban CPE Consortium
...her students while receiving treatment at Bonaventure House in Chicago. Here the two participate together in a Chicago AIDS Run/Walk in 2015. Sister Barbara said students in the program give 300 hours of service within an agency that is part of the consortium. Sister Barbara walks with the students as they serve others. “They do group work and individual clinical supervision in order for them to become more effective practitioners,” Sister Barbara said. “We work on the integration of their...
Providence spirituality in action: Sister Kathleen Desautels and 8th Day Center for Justice
...I found myself with the 8th Day staff and friends from many social justice organizations throughout Chicago in a tense nonviolent direct action outside the Federal Building in Chicago. Our group was blocking the door of the building in protest of the Guantanamo Bay prison human rights abuses. Chicago Police gave repeated orders that we would be arrested if we persisted. That’s when I saw Sister Kathleen. She spoke to the police and then to those taking part in the...
Sister Linda Kaliker (formerly Sister Marie Theodore)
...(1987-89); Consultant, Sears Telecatalog, Fort Wayne (1989-93); Adult Literacy Consultant, Idea Center, Huntington (1993-94); Manager, Providence Center Gift Shop, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1995-98); Gift Shop Staff, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1998-205); Assistant Manager of Gift Shop, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2005-07); Volunteer in health care, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2007-08); Prayer, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2008-2023). In Illinois: Teacher, St. Genevieve, Chicago (1964-67); Tutor, Maternity BVM, Chicago (1981-82); Social Service Worker, Center for Human Services, Forest Park (1982-84); Coordinator of Parenting Events, Archdiocese Office for Family Ministries, Chicago (1984-87)....
Sister Joseph Ellen Keitzer: Blessed by the African American Catholic Community
When Sister Joseph Ellen Keitzer, SP, was assigned as a music teacher to St. Angela School on Chicago’s west side in 1976, she had no idea how much her experience there was going to enrich her life. When she first arrived, there were five priests serving the mostly white parish. Sister Joseph Ellen Keitzer, center, loves the parish family from Chicago’s west side that she has been a part of for more than 40 years. Here she poses at St....
Sister Kathleen Dede (formerly Sister Marie Arthur)
...all of which she was well prepared for with degrees in education, social work and theology studies. But back to the ball of twine … she ministered in Indianapolis, Chicago, back to Indianapolis, Linton, the Village, St. Louis, back to Chicago, Terre Haute, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Davis, California, Booneville, Mississippi, and Dunedin, Florida, and, lastly, in retirement back to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Her ministries were equally as varied: Teacher and principal, social worker (in the field as well as a college instructor),...