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Mel Marino Wolff: “Thank you for bringing us together!”
...of Mercy Parish (Chicago), where the Sisters of Providence ministered as teachers, just in time for me to begin kindergarten. I attended there through 8th grade and gradually fell in love with the Sisters and stories of St. Mary-of-the-Woods. I then attended the Aspirancy and entered the Novitiate as a Postulant – sadly having to leave the Woods due to the illness and passing of my mom. There were many changes over the following years, but I always felt a...
Sister Barbara Sheehan receives Distinguished Service Award
...prophet, a risk-taker, a woman of integrity and a leader. Sister Barbara ministers as the executive director of Urban Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Consortium, Inc., Chicago. “Our dual mission is compassionate care and advocacy with the most vulnerable and the formation of persons in the art of urban pastoral care,” she said. Sister Barbara said the CPE Consortium was created in 2005 under her leadership with many theological educators and social agencies serving the poor. The agency’s goals are personal,...
Looking racism in the eye: there is still much to do
...community has a long history of working to combat racism. I also had some encounters with racism since entering the Sisters of Providence Congregation. In 1996, the Sisters of Providence sued a landlord in Chicago for housing discrimination. Two white Sisters of Providence had lived in an apartment on the northwest side of Chicago for three years. One sister transferred ministry and moved out. Another sister, who happened to be African-American, moved in. Within a week the management told the...
Sister Mary Rita Griffin (formerly Sister Mary Paula)
...into the novitiate on January 23, 1955, pronounced first vows in 1957, and perpetual vows on the same date in 1962. Sister Mary Rita went to her eternal reward on March 6, 2020. Mary’s life of public ministry began in January 1957. Mary’s service started in Indiana but took her to many other places such as Washington, D.C., Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Chicago, Taiwan, and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Twenty-eight of those years were spent as a teacher, mostly middle and upper...
Sister Laura Ann McLaughlin
...return from Peru, Laura ministered one year at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and then went to Maternity BVM in Chicago, for seven years. Her next step was to Emmanuel College in Boston, where she received an MSW in Clinical Pastoral Counseling in 1987. She returned to Indianapolis and worked for three years in the Counseling Department and as Dean of Students at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis. Following this, Laura went to Emmaus House in New Jersey, where she ministered until...
Sister Patty talks love, mercy and justice
Sister Patty Fillenwarth ministers at Providence Family Services in Chicago. “They have a hard, hard life. People don’t come here [illegally] because they are rich and want to get richer. At least nobody I know. They come here, they walk across the desert, or they swim across that river, some of them come a long, long distance. They come because they are poor and they are needy and they want to have a better life,” Sister Patty Fillenwarth said. Sister...
Sister educators reminisce about Sisters of Providence Schools
Sister Theresa Clare Carr with her classroom of second graders at Our Lady of Mercy School in Chicago in 1957. Several Sisters of Providence recently took a walk down memory lane reminiscing about Sisters of Providence Schools where we once taught. “Our goal always was to empower the students. My goal as a journalism and English teacher was to help them find their own voice and to figure out how they could make their own imprint on the world,” Sister...
Sister Agnes Arvin (formerly Sister Agnes Virginia)
...Agnes made her first profession on Aug. 15, 1941, and her final profession on Aug. 15, 1947. She earned a bachelor’s degree in social studies from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College on the 20-year plan (!) and went on to earn a master’s degree in education from Indiana University. Agnes spent 25 years ministering in elementary education in Chicago, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne and Terre Haute. Many of those years were spent teaching seventh- and eighth-grade, and six of those years were spent...
Sister Judy Birgen: parenting SP style
...kids who just fell into my lap,” she explains. Judy Birgen, left, spends time at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods with Bry’Chell Johnson. Sister Judy has helped raise her since Bry’Chell was 9 years old. Social worker invests her heart In the 1980s, Sister Judy was working as a social worker in Chicago through Catholic Charities. A woman in the parish was dying of cancer and also raising five young grandchildren. She was referred to Sister Judy for help. Sister Judy jumped in...
Enriching the lives of the elderly: Susan Dinnin
...Chicago neighborhood. Sister Susan is a member of his “care team,” that provides him 24/7 assistance so he can age in place in his home. Stan is one of several frail elderly for whom Sister Susan cares on a regular basis. Sister Susan evolved into this outreach ministry after retiring in 2013 after 20 years ministering at A Caring Place, an adult day services ministry sponsored by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. “Through this ministry, I hope that...
Tracing Providence: a Providence Associate reflects
...and I dated for three years, I graduated and moved to Chicago to start my dream job of traveling and visiting exciting, new places. We were to be married after she graduated and live in Chicago. While occasionally exciting, traveling was exhausting and lonely. My grandmother was ill, I was homesick, and I couldn’t bear to travel and leave my new wife home alone and away from her family. I took a more sedate job back in Cincinnati and we...
Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the mission to Asia
...church, and in absolute silence lined the avenue on both sides down to the outside road. The missionary band and the sisters who were to accompany them to Chicago or to the Pacific Coast entered the automobiles which were stationed on the plaza of the academy. While the cars passed down the avenue, the students sang the beautiful hymn, “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name” in full chorus. The arrival story from “Against All Odds ” A long twenty-five hour...