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Saint Mother Theodore’s feast day
...carry on her life and mission. I’ve had the joy of reflecting on her feast day Scriptures seven times now. Each year, the words from Sirach, Paul and Luke reveal something new. This time I have to admit I’m more than a little surprised as to where I found myself drawn for this reflection. “Provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old.” Now I do love purses. I always look at them when I’m shopping. And I love when...
Sister Brigid Ann Bonner
...way. Hobbies, such as needlepoint and quilting, provided that quiet time that is required of such skills. Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates gathered in June for a Louisville Area Circle. The Circle was hosted by the SPs at Providence Self-Sufficiency Ministries in Georgetown, Ind. Pictured (front row from left) Sheila Galvin, Joan Frisz, and Sister Eileen Bonner; (middle row) Sister Joanne Cullins, Sister Rose Virginia Eichman, Sister Brigid Bonner; (back row) Sister Nancy Reynolds, Tom O’Toole, Margo O’Toole, Sister...
Journals and Letters week 35: Letter of instruction, letter of prayer
...need for more Sisters of Providence with a variety of gifts, talents and formation skills. She addressed the required funding needed for the construction of a Motherhouse. And, she addressed the oppressive summer heat. It was especially burdensome with the sisters’ overcrowded living accommodations, and the plague of destructive locusts … certainly, these qualify as lamentations! Mother Theodore’s Letter Circular of Sept. 8, 1851, again offers us an expression of sorrow experienced by the community upon the death of Sister...
Sister Luke Crawford
...which cause us to look with special attention at what we often take for granted. A friend’s death, Luke’s death, is one such moment. To follow her path of ministry sharply reminds us of the work of the Spirit, in Luke, yes, but in each of us, said Sister Nancy Reynolds in her prepared commentary for Sister Luke Crawford, who died Friday, April 25, at Union Hospital, Terre Haute, at the age of 88. Kathryn Ann Crawford was born into...
Sister Loretta Maureen Gansemer
...full-time caregiver for her mother until her mother’s death in 2004. Unabashedly, Loretta would name this ministry and this time in her life as the ones she cherished most. Being a caregiver was in her DNA, but the filial bond she shared with her mother was the quintessential inspiration that only one who loves with a daughter’s heart is able to understand. After her mother’s death, she spent nine years as the Director of the Senior Center at Guerin Woods...
Blessed and encouraged to act justly, love tenderly
...for the abolition of the death penalty. Each month we post the names of those scheduled for execution in the U.S. These persons are remembered at the daily liturgy. Our community has always been involved in social justice issues, the death penalty being one of them. I used to meet monthly with a local group at 7th and Cherry Streets in Terre Haute displaying a very large banner denouncing the death penalty. Some who passed in cars would wave and honk while others expressed their...
Valentine’s Day 2011
...of Valentine’s Day — because Jack Alfred’s heart is definitely in the right place. My cousins just experienced the illness and death of their Uncle Bob. They were wonderfully attentive to him on his journey “from death into Life.” All generations of cousins — my first cousins and spouses, their children and (when applicable) their childrens’ children — took loving care of Uncle Bob, a very gentle and loving man himself. Jack Alfred had made many trips to visit Uncle...
Spirituality of Acceptance: Accepting Diminishment, Illness and Loss
...is part of their own spirituality of acceptance. Some people believe that life is simply a pilgrimage and journey towards death. From the very moment of our birth, the process of dying starts; already we are moving towards death. If we are in denial about the reality of death we will miss life’s greatest mystery. We will have missed the whole point of having lived. We will live into the “true” meaning and purpose of life itself, because life and...
Sister Alexa Suelzer
...was the most beautiful and peaceful death I have ever seen. The quote on the Blessed Mother Theodore calendar for June 26, the day she died, was “A good life is the best preparation for a good death.” I believe that was Alexa’s life and death – both were good. The Sisters of Providence have lost one of our greatest wisdom figures. She will be missed, but she is happy now with her God she served so faithfully and with...
Sister Christine Patrick
...Sister Marianne Ridgell, Sister Ann Paula Pohlman, Sister Mary Ann Leahy, Sister Christine Patrick and Sister Carolyn Glynn. All of these facts were important in shaping Christine’s life. More importantly, though, was the why of what she did. At the last supper, Jesus encouraged his 12 friends with these words: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.” Christine’s belief in God carried her through the death of her parents and siblings. In...
Moving ahead with action against death penalty
Friends, The fight to abolish the death penalty across the United States continues, and nowhere is it more urgent than with the federal government. The federal death chamber is in Terre Haute, Indiana, a mere 10 miles from our Motherhouse. We are gearing up for another round of executions, this time on Wednesday, August 26, when the federal government will kill Lezmond Mitchell, a member of the Navajo Nation, and on Friday, August 28, when Keith Nelson will be murdered...
Walking through an experience of resurrection
...gruesome Roman crucifixion. And perhaps they were looking for something they had missed or were wanting the stranger to know their friend and leader. 15, 16: “but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.” The life after death is different from the here and now. What about our seeing or sensing a Loved One after their death? Can we understand that the dead live but not in the same way as the here and now? 17, 18: “What are you...