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Sister Susanne Gallagher
Download complete interview with Sister Susanne Gallagher (PDF) Current ministry:Assistant director, SPRED Agency, Archdiocese of Chicago. Years in the Congregation: 54 Contact Sister Susanne at: Susanne@spred.org, or 312-225-9119 Q. What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of God? A. God is Love. God is my caregiver. Q. What do you like best about Saint Mary-of-the-Woods? A. The peace I experience in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, the cemetery, walking amidst the beautiful trees, the love I...
Organizations find something to believe in at Providence Family Services
To know Providence Family Services (PFS) is to believe in the work it does; or so seem to attest two recent grants awarded the not-for-profit charity. From its beginnings in 1993 with two bi-lingual counselors, Providence Family Services, located at 1540 N. Monticello Ave. in Chicago, has grown to also include English-as-a-Second-Language classes, after-school homework help, computer classes, parenting classes and citizenship classes. A sponsored ministry of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind., PFS serves the largely Spanish-speaking...
Sisters of Providence welcome new postulant
...Stephanie found herself compelled to volunteer with the Vitae Corps program in Chicago. During her stay in Chicago, she met with many Sisters of Providence who lived in Northlake and began furthered her discernment process with Sister Teresina Grasso, SP. “I had to know who I was as a person,” Stephanie said. “I was learning myself and the history of religious life. I wrestled with it.” Even though she continued to visit with other congregations, Stephanie always felt her heart...
Sister Jan Craven
...later brought change to the United States’ political landscape. In 1968, Jan, a recent high school graduate, campaigned for presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy at the Democrat National Convention in Chicago where social tension generated devastating riots. “Society was changing rapidly and I loved it,” Sister Jan said, admitting she was too excited to understand the tremendous danger that lurked on Chicago streets. But if society’s hair was blowing in the tailwind of the white-knuckle transformation, some observers would say the...
Giving the gift of self: Sister Carol Meyers
...God along the way, Sister Carol is looking forward to what the future may hold. Carol grew up in Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Chicago. She entered the Sisters in Providence in 1957. She professed perpetual vows in August 1964. Now ministering as a parish volunteer and parish council member, literacy tutor and Montessori school substitute, Sister Carol proudly notes that she has taught as a full-time teacher at every level from elementary school through college except...
The Sisters of Providence: A history of justice
...also established the Freedom School in Albany, Georgia, teaching youth and adults how to read, write and do mathematics. Sister of Providence Dorothy Gartland, far left, joins other 8th Day Center for Justice staff members in advocating for equality during the Center’s tenth anniversary celebration in 1985. In 1974 the Sisters of Providence were one of six founding religious congregation’s of the 8th Day Center for Justice in Chicago. First Sister Dorothy Gartland, SP, then Sister Kathleen Desautels, SP, ministered...
Sister Mary (Mary Ephrem) Hickey
...Born July 28, 1909, in Chicago, Mary Hickey was one of 11 children of Benjamin and Loretta Hickey. Mary attended St. Joseph Grade School, Indianapolis, and graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Academy. “According to information from our Archives, Sister Mary actually entered the Congregation twice, the first time in February of 1926 when she was given the religious name Sister Gertrude Loyola. However, she was evidently sent home. She told a friend in later years that the mistress of novices told...
Sister Rose Angele Spalding
...Her first mission was St. Angela, Chicago, in 1936. In Illinois, she also ministered at Our Lady of Sorrows, Chicago; St. Alexander, Palos Heights; and St. Francis Xavier, Wilmette. She spent three years at St. Ann, Washington, D.C. Indiana schools she ministered in included St. Patrick, St. Andrew, St. Bridget, Nativity and St. Luke, Indianapolis; St. Michael, Greenfield; and St. John the Baptist, Fort Wayne. In 1985, she left the classroom to serve as a clerical assistant at St. Gabriel...
Sister Barbara Sheehan
Current ministry: Executive director and CPE supervisor in Urban CPE Consortium, Inc. in Chicago Years in the Congregation: 46 years Something that I have always wanted to do: Give service in Africa September 30, 2006 I celebrated my 50th anniversary from St. Philip Neri Elementary School in Indianapolis with my 1956 classmates. The general theme expressed was of being special in the lives of our teachers who were Sisters of Providence. This was expressed as: “When we were here there...
Sister Adelaide donates handmade puppet collection to day care
...Adelaide has donated a collection of her “international friends” to Woods Day Care/Pre-School at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Teachers will learn how to handle the marionettes and share stories with the children who are part of the Day Care’s family. Sister Adelaide has used the marionettes for years in the Chicago area in her “Puppets for Peace” show. Each of the puppets donated to the Day Care represents a different nation or culture. “They love to dance,” she said. And so they...
Sister Paul Marie Gutgsell
...vows Aug. 15, 1938, and 1944, respectively. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s degree in education from Indiana State University. Sister Paul Marie’s initial ministries took her to the East Coast. In 1938, she briefly taught at Holy Redeemer, Berwyn, Md., and then ministered at Sacred Heart, Malden, Mass. She then returned to the Midwest, starting at St. Mel, Chicago. Her other Illinois classrooms included St. Andrew, Chicago, and St. Joseph, Galesburg....
Against All Odds: The life of Mother Marie Gratia Luking
...the Congregation on Sept. 5, 1906. Her maturity was such that she was allowed to make an early profession of final vows on Aug. 15, 1914, and the following year was named superior at St. Leo, Chicago, and then at St. Mary’s in Richmond, Indiana. After a year as superior at Our Lady of Providence Academy in Chicago, she was serving as superior at St. Augustine in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1919, when the call went out for volunteers for...