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Sister Mary Ann Leahy, (formerly Sister Marie Anita)
...had an older brother, Jack, and two sisters, Sheila and Margaret. She was especially close to Jack, and kept constantly in touch with him until his death this January. Although Sheila was four years younger than Mary, Mary took her everywhere with her and treated her as an equal. She was a wonderful aunt to her youngest sister Margaret’s two daughters, Ann and Sheila, and her sisters, her nieces, and her two great-nieces and great-nephew are here with us today....
Against All Odds: Focus on Sister Eugene Marie Howard, SP
...handwritten, undated document which may have been a commentary prepared after Sister Eugene Marie’s death. The document begins: “Sister Eugene Marie, Ellen Howard, was born in Cresco, Iowa, on Oct. 29, 1874, of Mary Fleming and John Howard; entered Community May 15, 1898; was professed Aug. 15, 1900; died on Feb. 16, 1942, at 11:35 a.m.” Within this sentence is a thumbnail sketch of a woman of great character and spirit and one of the members of the first...
Healing for suicide loss survivors
...“Bruised and Wounded.” In that book, Father Rolheiser posits that “suicide is a disease and generally the most misunderstood of all sicknesses. It takes a person out of life against his or her will, the emotional equivalent of cancer, a stroke or a heart attack … Death can happen suddenly or after a long struggle that wears a person down. Either way, it’s involuntary … Suicide is an illness and, as with any sickness, we can love someone and still...
Journals and Letters week 24: Support and hope
...missionary years in which he had to hunt for the little food he had, but in which he was so happy. And of his death in which he continued to bless the sisters to the end. We learn that he is buried here at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods because he himself desired it. “He was all for us in life, so he wished to remain with us in death,” the author says. A sketch of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods done by Fr. Corbe in...
Sister Mary Patricia Cummings (formerly Sister Marie Janice)
...large and scattered family all of their lives, visiting from Oregon to Florida and all stops in between, and after Mary Julia’s death, her many nieces and nephews remember Sister Mary Pat as the glue that held the family together. In 2001, Mary Pat retired to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, working in residential service until 2008. When Mary Julia died in 2009, Mary Pat said, “She was the perfect big sister. She was always there for me, as she was for anyone...
Journals and Letters week 51: Running toward Jesus
(Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” page 433 to page 439 starting with Monsignor Benoit. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week.) In the final pages of the “Journals and Letters,” Mother Theodore continues to hold up Sister St. Francis Xavier as someone to emulate in the way she lived and the way she died. It is quite obvious in these last letters that Mother Theodore’s grief and mourning for the death of...
Foundation Day and our French connection
...of Indiana 183 years ago that led to the arrival of our foremothers in the midst of a forest. So, this seemed like just the right moment to ask Sisters Jeanne Hagelskamp and Carole Kimes to share their reflections about the visit they made to that foundation in France this past June. Jeanne and Carole participated in the 200th anniversary celebration of the death of Mother Marie Madeleine du Roscoat, the first general superior of the Sisters of Providence...
March 26, 2023: Fifth Sunday of Lent
Gospel: John 11:1-45 Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill. So the sisters sent word to him saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory...
Sister Carolyn Kessler (formerly Sister Ann Carolyn)
...Carolyn wanted to broaden her experience. She was not going to go to college in her hometown. Here was her opportunity to branch out, to explore, to grow. She gave much time sending for and reading brochures from Catholic women’s colleges in the United States. One college she applied to was Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC), and having been offered a full scholarship, that was where she went. At SMWC, she majored in French and Chemistry — a combination of the...
Sister Celeste Tsai
...lived out in the life of our dear Celeste? I believe so. It’s what many of us saw in her as she lived her life for 56 years as a Sister of Providence. Ying-Yun, Celeste Tsai, was born on May 29, 1943, in Hsin Ying, Tainan, Taiwan, to Tsai Min Huang and Tsa Chen Yu-lei. She was the second of seven children. One brother, Yi-Nan Tsai, preceded her in death. Another brother, Dr. Yi-ch’ang Tsai, lives in Taiwan. Her sister...
March 10, 2024: Fourth Sunday of Lent
...to the present situation in which the revelation of God is through the actions of Jesus’ crucifixion. Eternal life or death rests on each one’s response to the lifting up of the Son from death into life resurrected. To live in light over darkness. To live to be expressions of our faith in a loving and saving God in Jesus. Action What does it mean for me and you to live in the light? How might I, how might you,...
March 24, 2024: Palm Sunday of the Passion of Our Lord
Gospel: Mark 14: 1-15:47 “Now the chief priests and the whole council were looking for testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they found none. … Some stood up and gave false testimony against him, saying we heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’ But even on this point their testimony did not agree. Then the high priest stood up...