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Sister Linda Kaliker (formerly Sister Marie Theodore)
...forth in joy and peace to her eternal reward. Linda was 82-years-old and had been a Sister of Providence for 65 years. Linda Ann Kaliker was born on November 4, 1940, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Marie Geradot Kaliker and Edmund Kaliker. She was a middle-child. Her sisters, Marlene and Rita, preceded her in death. Her sisters, Karen and Kathy, join us today in celebrating Linda’s life and mourning her death. They remember Linda as a gentle soul, easy to...
December 31, 2023: Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
...a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord. He came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to perform the custom of the law in regard to him, he...
Sister Carolyn Glynn (formerly Sister John Michael)
...did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.” Several days before her death, Carolyn, ever the storyteller, made a videotape, primarily for her family, about several instances in her life, said Sister Ann Casper in her...
Sister Clelia Cecchetti (formerly Sister Rosina)
...Clelia’s death, Father Robert Fennimore, then a young priest assigned as Assistant Pastor at St. Ann Parish, spoke of her helpful manner and wisdom when working with him in planning school liturgies. He commented on her clear singing voice when she was directing the children. After a sabbatical in Massachusetts, Clelia switched gears totally to six years in finance ministry, being Provincial Treasurer in St. Raphael Province, and ministering in the CBO at the Woods as Local Residence Accounts Manager...
Oral history: Sister Kathleen Desautels, change maker
...people are good. My experiences and other Sisters’ experiences can be and are different. Some things are so divisive. But people who take the time to have a conversation? That is important.” Coming back from near death Sister Kathleen (with Clancy the dog) recuperating from her near-death illness. Kak returned to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 2022. Previously the picture of health, she developed encephalitis and was “out” for six months or more. She was placed on hospice at one point. Several...
Who is Anna Murray?
...the travel funding. She sewed a sailor suit because black sailors were common in that area. She borrowed a free papers document for him to escape slavery, taking a train to New York. Once there, she joined him and they were married. Their marriage would last forty-four years until Anna’s death on August 4, 1882. They would give birth to five children. Sorrow struck when one daughter, Annie, died at age 10 of a brain hemorrhage. Frederick was almost constantly...
A reflection for the Season of Creation
...speaking the words: “I love God because God has heard my voice in supplication, because God inclined an ear to me the day I called. The cords of death encompassed me; the snares of the netherworld seized upon me; I fell into distress and sorrow, and I called upon the name of God, ‘O God, save my life!’ I was brought low, and God saved me.” Yes, indeed, God can save planet Earth. But here’s the rub: God is...
Recognizing the Feast Day of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
...age when she attended a school conducted by the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Five years later, she graduated with honors and a teaching certificate. After the death of her parents in 1876, she applied for entrance into a religious community, but was denied entry because of poor health. She then started an orphanage – called the House of Providence. She found helpers among a small group of women who were attracted by a religious lifestyle. Frances took...
Against gray February skies
Note: The following poem was written by the late Sister Mary Catherine Keene, SP, in 1975. Bare trees rise Pushing up from somewhere Deep within the earth Witnesses to death and life To dormancy and birth How bound we are to them! Yes, do we know How woven in one cloth we stand — Those trees and we Forming some life-bond Mysteriously Some voice from Genesis describes The Knowledge Tree Psalmist lean upon the cedar trees of Lebanon Christ found...
Sister Joan Mary Schaefer
...Providence or Providence Health Care, even days after her death, one still expects to see Sister Joan Mary propelling her walker so as to appear nearly “flying” down the halls. Perhaps the words of Robert Frost’s poem were on her mind: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep.” Or as her friend and former housemate Sister Carol Myers expressed it: “I always think of her as full...
April 6, 2025: Fifth Sunday of Lent
Gospel: John 11:1-45 (used in parishes celebrating the Third Scrutiny) 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...
May 4, 2025: Third Sunday of Easter
...where you wanted, but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.” Reflection Anytime we’re opening presents, one of my cousins always says, “A present is a funny thing. It always keeps you wondering.” I can say...