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No time for despair: climate change reality
...leaders about this issue. In a surreal moment, I realized that two of the three people sitting in front of me in a panel discussion were Nobel laureates. They and we are now among nearly 12,000 climate leaders who’ve taken a pledge to address climate change through education and action wherever and whenever we can. Gore is as passionate as ever about global warming and how we can stop the devastating impact of an environment that keeps getting hotter and...
The Mission to Asia: A reflection for Foundation Day
Mother Marie Gratia Luking “When my mind becomes occupied about the future of this foundation, it seems a matter of such importance that I can almost sink through weakness and can only get strength by casting it all into the arms of God’s Providence, living one day at a time, expecting everything from him.” Those words were spoken by Mother Marie Gratia Luking in a letter to Mother Mary Bernard Laughlin during World War II. At the time, Japan had...
A brief history of the mission to the Chinese
...Kaifeng. On March 22, 1943, the Sisters of Providence and all other U.S. missionaries were interned at a concentration camp in Weihsien in Shangtung Province. Five months later U.S. internees were again relocated, this time to Peking where they were placed under house arrest with the Spanish Daughters of Jesus. Sister Monica Marie Rigoni shares in recreation with Providence Sister-Catechist novices. Aug. 17, 1945, two days after V-J Day, the Sisters of Providence learned that the war had ended. A...
A reflection for the 2018 Senior Jubilee Celebration
...— oh so hard! Maybe not like Mary but as Linda who found adjustment so difficult. My roommate was so helpful!!! I kept asking my God to give me courage. I did pray and pray…. ‘Linda, do not be afraid. I love you… I’m with you all the time, you know this — as in years past.’” Sister Rosemary Ward reflected on some of her own “Do not be afraid” moments: “There were times of growth, trust and letting go;...
Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...Mary-of-the-Woods: General Secretary, Sisters of Providence (2006-13), Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Coordinator, Office of Records (2013-14), and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and Colombo, Sri Lanka: Coordinator, Office of Records, and English as a Second Language Teacher (2014-15). Sister Rosemary Ward Sister Rosemary Ward is a native of Chicago. Currently, she ministers in social justice and as the director of an English as a Second Language site in Bolingbrook, Illinois. Sister Rosemary, formerly Sister Sebastian, entered the Congregation on July 22, 1958, from St. Ita,...
Sister Mary Cecile Grojean
...to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Not long after, her mom joined the work force to help the war effort, and with her brothers gone to military service, Mary Cecile remembered World War II as a difficult time in her life. She graduated from Providence High School in June 1949 and went to work in a Wieboldt’s department store office until her departure for Saint Mary-of-the-Woods the following February. Apparently, hers was one of the famous train trips allowing Chicago girls entering the...
A community of hope for homeless young adults
...track down the needed phone number. Safe Place Services of Louisville, a day shelter for homeless young adults, lives up to its name. It’s not everywhere that homeless young people can let their guard down, kick off their shoes and feel at home. It’s not everywhere they can find private showers, clothing, a personal locked cubby to store belongings, a warm meal and a loving and accepting community of people. Making things happen At the hub of this drop-in day...
Sister Adrian Marie Conrad
...in Vincennes. With war on the horizon, Adrian and Charles enlisted while she contributed to the war effort by entering the work force. On July 22, 1943, she entered the Congregation. It was a small band of only five until January when Sisters Michaela Galvin and Catherine Denise Duplace arrived from the eastern postulancy to join them. After professing first vows on Jan. 23, 1946, she moved across the state to Richmond and began her teaching ministry in the middle...
Sunday, December 6, 2020: Second Sunday of Advent
...Isaiah’s poetic prophecies rang through the centuries down to our time. This COVID-19 germ is every bit as pervasive as the wars and rumors of wars that the Israelites had to deal with as they prepared. Our call during Advent is to live hope even though this Christmas will be different than any Christmas we’ve known. This year, because of our isolation, some of us had more time to think, time to realize what our family means to us at...
Sister Suzanne Buthod (formerly Sister Mary Judith)
...years. Sister Rosemary continued: Suzanne Louise Buthod was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on October 24, 1929. Her father, Victor, who grew up in Oklahoma, met her mother, Louise Brightman, when he was stationed in Texas during World War I. After the war, the couple settled in Texas where their four children were born. Suzanne was their last child. Her two brothers, James and John, and a sister, Harriett, who was called “Sissie,” have all preceded her in death. Her...
Sister Donna Marie Fu
...end of World War II. In her retelling of this part of her life, Donna made it clear that she had “no religion at all – and no interest in religion at all.” It turns out, however, that her father had actually been baptized a Catholic sometime during his high school or college years, though none of the family knew until many years later. It seems Providence had designs on the young Fu Baoshan from the moment she arrived at...
The call to be resurrected: What if we made a shield of love?
What if we made a shield of love? This question has been traveling with me throughout the Lenten season. It came to me in a reflection from Valerie Kaur at the beginning of the outbreak of war in Ukraine. The question was formed in her by the prayer she and her son offered for the children of Ukraine, the Tati Vao Na Lagi, which means: “The hot winds cannot touch you, you are shielded by Love.” Valerie asked everyone who...