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Advent 2018: So many possibilities in the waiting
...deal with it. That’s the upside. The downside is that waiting can be such a mixed bag of eager anticipation, worry, patience, impatience, indifference, puzzlement, annoyance, hard work, surprises of all kinds. Still, we’re used to waiting. That’s why the days of Advent, the Church’s season of waiting, holds so many possibilities for us. During the liturgies of Advent, the Scriptures will recall events before the birth of Jesus. Once again, we’ll hear the familiar and oddly comforting stories of...
Sister Elizabeth Meyer (formerly Sister Joseph Aloyse)
...had a cookie story. “Each Christmas season, we would discuss whether we would make the family cookies – Springerles! We usually had failure we laughed about and compared how we would attack the next batch! I will miss these talks so much! I hope she can send me the secret of these cookies from heaven as I will continue to bake them and miss her input for them!” Elizabeth herself definitely had a sweet tooth. Susan Outlaw Stallings, who often...
Sister Agnes Clare Buckley
...days baking pies and cooking lasagna for police and firefighters who worked on Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. They all knew her for she taught most of them! She, along with other sisters, would knit and crochet year-round, making scarves, baby sets, hats, sweaters and afghans for the annual St. Rose bazaar and for family, sisters, friends and medical staffs. These years, of course, were interrupted by the extraordinary event of her heart transplant in 1989, the first woman to undergo...
Witness
...while an act of extreme violence is being inflicted upon another human being … a person whom Jesus referred to when enjoining us to “love our neighbor as ourselves.” As of this writing, the federal government has inflicted revenge killing, or executions, on seven persons starting on July 13, 2020. Three more are scheduled before Christmas: Orlando Hall on Nov. 19; Lisa Montgomery on Dec. 8; and Brandon Bernard on Dec. 10. Sadly, Terre Haute has become the killing fields...
New Year’s 2012
New Year’s fireworks What’s the New Year’s equivalent of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas? I’d qualify. By way of disclaimer, I do enjoy much of this holiday … a paid holiday for many workers … time with family and friends that’s not as frantic as Christmas … the sense of newness and being able to begin again … honoring Mary and her life-long fidelity to the designs of Providence. But on the other hand — the “grinchy hand,” it’s getting...
Christmas greeting cards of yesteryear
A photo album of Christmas cards sent by the Sisters of Providence general administration through the years....
The remarkable life of Mother Marie Gratia Luking
...where he had been appointed to an administrative position. His 40 years as a missionary in China had left him physically exhausted and in need of rest. Although his departure would deprive them of a friend and protector, the Sisters of Providence, along with the Benedictine Sisters, decided for the sake of their ministry to remain in China. Little did they realize that that Christmas of 1940 would be their last one in Kaifeng for seven years. World War II...
Father Dan raises a village
It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes Father Dan Hopcus to raise a village at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Father Dan Hopcus talks about the Christmas village. Father Dan (pictured, at left), chaplain for the Sisters of Providence, welcomed sisters and staff members to his Dec. 22 open house to view the village he has worked on, and added to, for three decades. So just how did this fascination with the village people and miniature town begin?...
Blessing of the Christmas tree
This Christmas card was sent by the Sisters of Providence General Administration in 1976. Dear God, Two thousand years ago, you brought your son, Jesus, into this world to teach us the power of love and sacrifice. As we raise this tree, we remember his birth and the meaning of his life for us. Bless this tree as a symbol of our celebration of Jesus’ birth and our gratitude for his sacrifice. May the joy this tree brings and the...
Sister Mary Eleanor Galvin
...and a resurrected Christ. Yes, I am minister, and because I am, I hope, like John, to say of those to whom I minister one can show no greater love than to lay down her life for her friends. Sister Mary Eleanor Galvin, SP “A child of Christmas, born in Advent, dying during the novena for Christmas, buried on the vigil of the Wise Men, now Mary Eleanor lives forever in that temperate valley where there are no seasons save...
SP mission: alive with the times
...parents, brother and I (at 13) moved from Pennsylvania to California, the tradition altered … fewer dishes (although Mom stuck with at least seven), and no more bacala (none of us really liked it). But what remained the same was the story. We recalled it every Christmas Eve. And, until my mom’s death, there was never a Christmas Eve meal without fish. My niece and nephew know the tradition and the symbolism behind it. They know about keeping vigil with...
Cards and Christmas carols
...to my room, but I continued to hear shrieks of joy coming from the card room. Another added diversion As I have mentioned, Sister Chamila teaches at the public school next door. Though most of the students are Buddhist, the school honors all traditions and so there was a Christmas play on Dec 3. She asked if I would teach a group an English carol and I heartily agreed. She chose something I didn’t know well — “Long time ago...