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Sister Mary Ann Lechner (formerly Sister Robert Ann)
...really missed doing that ministry. ‘After all,’ she said, ‘I know most of those people after all these years.’ And know them she did, asking about their health, about family members, about their grandchildren or their work. So, I assured her that using a walker was no reason to prevent her returning to the ministry, as long as she felt she could. So, Mary Ann was there that month and several months after that, greeting and extending her warm welcome...
Smile for the camera!
...time getting to know Sisters of Providence Mary Tomlinson, Betty Smigla, Sharon Richards and Diane Mason. After nearly two years of isolated living due to the COVID pandemic and its emerging variants, the sisters were thrilled at the opportunity of being in community if only for a couple hours. They shared news of their personal ministries, housemates and family members. The drive on an unseasonably warm and sunny February day was well worth the early start. But that’s not all!...
Reconnecting with Basilian Sisters in Ukraine
...members of the Basilian monastery in Lviv and spent the month of July with them. Their monastery had recently been returned to them after having been confiscated during the Soviet era. A good number of young women had applied for entrance, with the monastery serving as a formation house. Our brief course would be a means of widening their horizons. Bearing Witness Of course, the recent outbreak of war in Ukraine revived my interest and sparked my concern for their...
Poem: Earth rising
Editor’s Note: “In honor of Earth Week this week, Sister Ruth Johnson, SP, shares the poem below that she wrote to reverence Earth.” Sometimes I hear voices rising from the Earth warm words – sounds that resonate and flutter leaves rustling growing green thoughts from the soil It is alive and clings to us in ways we have forgotten It’s self-giving and “belonging” sing no more as it once did it cries in need of it pleads for us in...
Leadership Team expresses disappointment with recent Biden Administration announcement
...Earth at the outset of the pandemic due to limitations on travel. We will continue to pray that this recent announcement is only temporary in order to help those most in need regarding the spiking of gas prices due to the war Russia is waging against Ukraine. We will also continue to pray that the studies that were conducted showing the cutting of greenhouse gas emissions during the onset of the pandemic are reviewed and we will all begin to...
Sister Jessica Vitente: Leading and being led to God
No one can deny Sister Jessica Vitente’s enthusiasm. She’s exuberant and offers a warm embrace to a wide variety of people and ideas. No one can miss that she loves being a woman of deep faith. That she is proud of her Filipino heritage and of her identity as a Sister of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sister Jessica Vitente, left, spends time with college students at the Newman Center at the University of Evansville where Sister Jessica serves as the...
Sisters of Providence provide hope and healing in a broken world
...the last 20 years. Men and women in this country without a college degree are dying earlier than in the past. Even before Covid, life expectancy, conditional on making it to age 25, has declined over recent decades. For many of our sisters and brothers, life is harsh and short, filled with little joy, but with lots of anguish and despair. The war raging in the Ukraine, mass hunger and starvation in Afghanistan, massive human rights violations in Saudi Arabia...
Sister Jody O’Neil accompanies brother on Honor Flight
In April 2022, Sister Jody O’Neil accompanied her brother, Mike, on an Honor Flight from Indianapolis to Washington, D.C., in which veterans receive the opportunity to visit war memorials and more. Here are some photos from the trip. All photos were taken by Casey Kellum....
Sister Betty Hopf honored with Sunshine Award
...quarterly award. “Sister Betty was actually nominated by a former patient at the Hux Cancer Center,” Mandi said. “She’s very compassionate. Some of the words used by the patient included warm, gracious and immediately endearing.” Sister Betty received a certificate and a banner was hung at the entrance of the Hux Cancer Center. “I absolutely love my ministry,” Sister Betty said. “I feel like I’m making a difference in peoples’ lives. They are dealing with so much. They love the...
Racism’s infection within American healthcare
...different factors resulting from systematic racism, one irrefutable facet is this aforementioned distrust of the American healthcare system felt by people of color. For instance, fewer people of color are protected against COVID-19 due to their warranted hesitancy in trusting the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. Additionally, this distrust likely results in less people of color being tested in the first place, meaning this health disparity occurring may be even greater than data represents it as. The United States...
Congregation shares statement on MPP ruling
...and subjected people to the very dangers that forced them to seek refuge in the United States in the first place. With this ruling, we welcome the end of MPP. “Ours is both a nation of laws and a beacon of hope for many throughout the world. This should inspire us to work toward just and humane responses to forced migration, not embrace failed policies of the past. As Pope Francis has warned, we cannot limit ourselves to building ‘walls...
A reflection for Reception into the Novitiate
...that little piece of jade in Leslie’s hand kept coming to mind. In so many ways, Leslie, you are like that newly transplanted jade. You came to the United States from Vietnam when you were very young, escaping a war-torn country, having to adapt to various cities and circumstances before your family was safely harbored in California. Most recently, you have come to us from the Sisters of Mary Queen, a religious community composed only of Vietnamese sisters. We are...