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The wisdom of Saint Mother Theodore: Letter to Sister Gabriella
...bodies of sin and corruption, in order that they may be glorified with Him one day in heaven. We have, both of us, a good opportunity for this, being not very well; and this is truly the time for mortification. Let us bear all we must suffer without complaint, without murmur, and also without taking unnecessary care of this dreadful carcass, which is today the object of our worship, and tomorrow will be the food of worms, maggots, etc. “I...
Don’t take yourself too seriously
...today for the first time in at least three years. My doctor told me I don’t have enough stress in my life. It is a fundraiser. People are paying a lot of money to play with me. I think they should get a refund. … I’m buying a bushel of balls … I think when I come to a water hole, I should just throw a ball in. I’m told when I drive up to the club, they will take...
Sister Diane Mason
...educator, it had been a great run. Q. Why would a woman today find joining the Sisters of Providence to be an attractive lifestyle opportunity? A. If you really want to make a difference in the world, I feel the journey of being a Sister of Providence is filled with a time of prayer, a time of companionship, a time of opportunities to grow spiritually and academically. Coming home to the Woods in the summer time is so refreshing. It...
Asking questions: Feast Day 2012
...after the many trials and sufferings she endured. She seems to have done so joyfully. Do we merely repeat the words or do we believe them? Do we trust as she trusted “in that Providence that never fails?” What or who would help us grow in trust? On her feast day, let’s each of us take another look at Mother Theodore. Let’s none of us assume that she agrees with me on everything, has the same opinions I do on...
Honoring Sister James Michael Kesterson
...U.S. Department of Education. “My blessing was to be with the children all those years — to help them, to teach them, to see them grow,” says Sister James Michael, who also served as principal of Our Lady of the Greenwood School in Greenwood and as a teacher at the former St. Andrew the Apostle School in Indianapolis. Read more about the award recipients in The Criterion’s September article ‘Doing the right thing’ guides award recipients. Congratulations, Sister James Michael!...
Coming of age with Vatican II
...observed a strict “horarium”: a schedule of prayer, work, study and recreation. We learned how to serve at table, read during silent meals, chant the hours of the Divine Office and clean — did we ever learn how to clean! We attended college classes at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and sat in the back rows of the classrooms. We were not to socialize with the “college girls.” We walked to and from classes in silence; and talked only at recreation, at...
Sister Cathy Buster called “heart and soul” of new migrant farm family community in Arcadia, Fla.
...Casa San Juan Bosco story. I look forward to returning to Arcadia in the future for the blessings of the next phases that Sister Cathy envisions for the community. For I know, if Sister Cathy envisions it, it will happen. She is “a go-getter,” woman of Providence who will rally the folks she needs around her to grow the kitchen, the houses and the senior citizen apartments at CSJB that she has on the drawing board of her mind. http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2013-01-23/Diocese-of-Venice-celebrates-new-community-for-farm-workers#.UQFTCmfhctg...
Life in the Weihsien internment camp, 1943
...for the goods during the day. The next day, orders were delivered all sorts of ways — in buckets (as if carrying water from the well), or wrapped up in a bundle of clothing, or in other clandestine ways. … Regularly every night [Father Patrick] Scanlan bargained in rapid Chinese for hundreds of Chinese dollars’ worth of merchandise. Scanlan’s trusty accomplices were four Divine Word priests whose room was separated from the Trappists’ by only a narrow passageway. Stones thrown...
Sister Evelyn Ovalles reflects on Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and home
...a sense of place or recognition that this is where I belong. I guess I could say that was the beginning. The formation years helped foster that sense of home. As I traveled a lot from one ministry to the next during postulancy, the Woods was my safety harbor, a haven in between travels. But it was during my canonical year while living and ministering here that I started to grow roots. I found my favorite spots; I call them...
Sister Dina Bato
...lifestyle the Congregation offers? Community lifestyle is very important to me. It’s one of the main things that drew me to religious life. I really wanted to live in a community of people who wants to grow in its relationship with our loving God and out of that relationship, to help transform the world for the better. I know that’s a very broad statement. Much like a family, living in community isn’t easy. I find myself being challenged to look...
Sister Rebecca Keller
...I really need to quiet myself in order to be able to listen. But on the other hand, I do feel God can speak in my busiest moments of life. And that always makes me smile because God is forever challenging my narrow perspective of life. God speaks all the time,” she said. What advice would Sister Becky offer a woman considering religious life today? “I think you need to ask God’s help, and then do your part which could...
Novena to Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...always brought good and generous people into your life to assist you in bringing your saintly goals to fruition. Please help me to purify my own motives in order to overcome the needs of my ego. Let my only desire be what God wills. Allow me to learn from your sense of purpose and grow in your ability to rely on God’s Providence to bring the outcome that will bless those who are affected by my life. If it be...