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Oral history: Sister Ann Sullivan
...venturing onto the grounds and near the herd. Crias year after year. Alpacas pronging and playing king-of-the-hill. “Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it, and whispers, ‘grow, grow.'” – The Talmud White Violet Center White Violet Center for Ejo-Justice has a USDA Certified Organic Garden. Produce is grown on five acres. There is a Farm Store, alpaca fiber arts, chickens and eggs, and WVC is a fixture at the Terre Haute farm market during the season....
August 24, 2025: Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Luke 13-22-30 Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough. After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door, then will you stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for...
New Providence Associates share their journey – part 1
...shared personal experiences and told stories of our lives. We often talked about how the exercises in the binder are valuable not just for this year, but for the rest of our lives. People grow and change and the opportunities to show Providence grow and change with you. This program means the world to me! I plan to stay in touch with Sister Mary Ann and Sister Ann Matilda. They are part of my family now. I always considered myself...
The Irish Connection
This undated photo depicts Sister Gemma Malone (second from left in back row) and her sister, Sister Francis Catherine (back row, far right) along with Sister Mercedes McAllister (back row, left), Reverend Michael Malone (front, center), Margaret Ann Doriot (front, left) and Jule Doriot. Margaret Ann Doriot later entered the Congregation and was given the religious name Sister Thomas Jeanne. From time to time, people get on Facebook and send us requests for the weekly Throwback Thursday blog. We love...
A reflection for the 2018 Senior Jubilee Celebration
...from left) Sisters Helen Therese Conway, Rita Ann Wade, Laurette Bellamy and Regina Ann Lynch (middle row) Sisters Dorothy Gartland, Ann Marie Boyce, Joan Mary Schaefer, James Michael Kesterson, Grace Marie Meehan, Jane Michael Dwyer, Eileen Dede and General Councilor Sister Mary Beth Klingel, (back, from left) General Councilors Sisters Jenny Howard, Jeanne Hagelskamp, General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski and General Councilor Sister Lisa Stallings. This notion of finding favor with God was the beginning of Sister Marceline’s call to...
Sister Frances Alma McManus
Sister Frances Alma McManus “Keep to the narrow path of goodness, and have hope.” (Book of Sirach) “If the sum of Sister Frances Alma’s years is any indication, it is obvious that she heeded well these words from Sirach. Somewhere in her remarkable journey of 100-plus-one years, Mary Agnes McManus put herself in the presence of God and there she stayed. Faced with the challenges that she most certainly encountered in her life as an administrator, Sister Frances Alma, in...
Remembering sisters’ loving response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic
...Sister Ann Michele remained at The Damien Center until her first encounter with breast cancer. Upon her death in 2008, Sister Carolyn shared, “Watching her these past months as she lay dying, I realized that she learned from her Damien Center clients how to live and die from incurable disease without complaint, with dignity and grace.” Visit the blog again tomorrow for a second part to today’s blog post on Sisters of Providence involved in responding to the AIDS epidemic....
A 2021 Reflection for our Senior Jubilee
...that some of you have had to wait a year for this celebration, and I hope that makes today even more special. And I am remembering Winnie Sullivan in a special way, one of the 75-year jubilarians we honor today, who most probably would have been watching this liturgy from her room in health care. Her death just a few days ago saddens us, until we remember she is now watching from a place prepared by our Provident God where...
ONE of several, but Indiana’s first
...letters and journals tell how he and his companions were led from village to village, how they were beaten, tortured and forced to watch as their Huron converts were mangled and killed. He eventually met his death as a martyr in 1646. Jean de Lalande died 1646; Lalande was also part of the same missionary group that Issac Jogues was. As a teenager, he ministered in upstate New York and Canada alongside Father Isaac Jogues. He was martyred on October...
Thoughts on Resurrection
Forsythia blooms near the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. By Sister Ruth Eileen Dwyer Something about April and Resurrection belong together! We encounter new life bursting into being more visibly every day: the slow but steady increase of sunlight each morning and evening; the sowing of new seed; the watch for the first forsythia or daffodil; the bursts of bird calls seeking mates — all witness the transformation of death to life. With the arrival of spring...
The remarkable life of Mother Marie Gratia Luking
Mother Marie Gratia Luking led the Sisters of Providence mission to Kaifeng, China, in 1920. By Sister Mary Roger Madden On Oct. 29, 1989, in Shalu, Taichung County, Taiwan, a group of clergy, lay people and women religious gathered at the burial site of Mother Marie Gratia Luking. They were there to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of a simple woman religious from the United States known throughout Taiwan as a missionary; educator; builder; helper of the poor...
Sister Sharon Sullivan (formerly Sister Barbara Mary)
...Her brother Jim’s illness and death, her last living sibling, was a cause of deep sorrow to her and she never seemed to be the same after his death in 2008. She experienced a great deal of anxiety as she lived this past year and a half in Mother Theodore Hall; nothing seemed to ease her concerns and fears, as sister-friends and family spent time with her and tried to reassure her that everything would be all right. And now,...