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Join us for ‘An Evening with Carrie Newcomer!’
“Bringing singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer to the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to help us celebrate Jubilee 2025: Pilgrims of Hope seems a perfect way to honor Pope Francis’ dream that the jubilee year itself would engender hope in people.” — Sisters of Providence General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski A Warm Welcome We want to extend a warm welcome to all pilgrims and music lovers to the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on Saturday, Oct. 25, for “An Evening with Carrie Newcomer.” The concert will begin at...
November 16, 2025: Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
...for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he.’ and ‘The time has come.’ Do not follow them! When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified, for such things must happen first, but it will not immediately be the end.” Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be powerful earthquakes, famines, and plagues from place to place; and awesome sights and mighty signs will come from...
Caring for God’s gifts: the natural environment and faith
...the significance of these gifts both in their ordinary lives and in their recognition of the gifts of God. In recognizing Earth, the people fought for and claimed the land upon which they made their home as God’s inheritance. They sensed the value of the pure, clean air that allowed them to breathe and their crops and herds to flourish. Air provided a welcome coolness in the heat and could be warmed by sun or fire. Their boats moved more...
Sister Helen Vinton
...its charism, a special gift, in the world today. With the proliferation of war and violence, with the proliferation and misuses of technology, there are people who are looking at how we counter this. Do we just enter the wars? Do we join in the violence? There has to be another way,” she said. “And that’s where the Sisters of Providence offer that ‘other way,’ that opportunity,” she emphasized. “I can’t help but think there are hundreds of thoughtful women...
A Sister Edith Pfau Evangelist
...to the library crucifix, a decades-worn table near a hand-lettered calligraphic warning: “Please beware of splinters.” I don’t remember which exact discovery first set me on the trail of Sister Edith Pfau (RIP), but I think it was a painting of the Holy Family hanging in Providence Hall that made me stop and look again with the thought, “Wow, that’s actually really good.” Not just hang-on-the-fridge good, but really-talented-artist good. Hang-in-a-museum good. It was signed, quite simply, “S. Edith.” My...
The Joy of Vatican II
...o’clock Mass, rosary in hand. Both of them had favorite novenas and of course, our family said the rosary every night, my parents and the three oldest of the seven kids taking turns leading a decade. Yet these warm and sweet family memories are tempered by other aspects of pre-Vatican II culture. Before Vatican II everything was black and white. Everyone had a place on a pyramid that spanned heaven and earth. At the top was the pope, followed by...
Tried and true farming techniques benefit Earth
...plants out of trays and pots,” she explained. Soil blocker tools are used for planting seedlings. High tunnels Rather than a greenhouse, which utilizes a heating element, high tunnels are heated by the sun. This is called passive solar. White Violet Center has two high tunnels. Candace said it’s 5 to 8 degrees warmer inside the high tunnel on a cold day. But if it’s a sunny day there could be a 10 to 20 degrees difference. Crops are grown...
Hospitality remains a strong charism of the SPs
...closer glimpse into the life and charism of the Sisters of Providence. Nearly every guest commented on the gracious, warm hospitality extended to them. It happened just last week when I showed one of our retreatants to her bedroom. Noticing that Sister Mary Ann Lechner’s bedroom was across the hall, I introduced the guest. Immediately, Sister Mary Ann greeted her warmly and took her down the hall to show her the kitchenette where coffee would be waiting each morning! A...
A Christmas memory
...our altitude looked like a giant Christmas tree lit up in red, white and green. I still have a very vivid picture in my memory. We landed in Tel Aviv just at the beginning of Hannukah! We quickly learned that homecoming Jewish friends and families were met with extraordinary warmth, surrounded by large circles of welcoming families and friends singing and dancing a folk song. In the midst of what can only be called a very dynamic, raucous, chaotic setting,...
Sister Christine Patrick
...and her five siblings. Christine sent 10-year-old Rita out to trim part of the yard with a handheld grass trimmer. Very warm in the sun and bothered by sweat bees, Rita went back in the house only to meet up with Christine. Rita explained why she couldn’t possibly finish her job. Christine’s response? “Offer it up to God!” We are, Christine, but it’s hard. Eleanor Mae Patrick was born to Walter Charles and Anna Scheidegger Patrick in Indianapolis on Feb....
Letter to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York
...this letter to be about partisan politics. It is, however, about governmental policy and our call as followers of Jesus to speak up for those most marginalized. The very person you so lavishly praised as a superb leader has steered his administration into total disregard for climate scientists and the grave warnings they have been promulgating. This administration, in fact, continues to disparage sound scientific evidence supporting urgent reduction in greenhouse gases in order to mitigate climate change. This is...
Sister Barbara Doherty: A Sister of Providence icon living with dementia
...first time they met. They remember Sister Barbara as a regular person. Warm and kind and humorous. A person who kept a drawer of candy in her office for children of student mothers. “She genuinely cared about each person she met. She will forever be one of my favorite people,” says Lori Morgan, a 1999 graduate of SMWC. So many people hold so many great memories of Sister Barbara. Yet for Sister Barbara memory is the challenge. In 2010 Sister...