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70 years with Our Lady of Providence
...my father died in 1992, my mother stayed in the home until 1997. She then moved to an efficiency apartment in a retirement community. Of the few items she took with her, one was this painting of Our Lady of Providence. She again placed it at the entrance of her apartment. The painting brought her much consolation as she graciously aged. At my mother’s death, this heirloom was taken by Martin, her eldest grandson, and Joanne, his wife, for the...
Through the Gospel stories, we participate…
Through the Gospel stories, we participate in the Last Supper, walk the Way of the Cross and witness the crucifixion of Jesus. In doing so, we touch into the raw grief of acknowledging the presence of death in our lives and the life of the world’s people.
December 10, Human Rights Day and This Little Light
...world. Looking over the three of five people for whom we advocated last December that were released from prison, I reread Yecenia Armenta’s story. In July 2012, wrongfully accused of ordering her husband’s death, she was arrested by plain clothes policemen. Amnesty International writes, “The officers took her to an unknown location where she was asphyxiated with a plastic bag, subjected to waterboarding and forced to strip naked. She was hung upside down, beaten and raped. After 15 hours of...
Sister Marie Brendan Harvey
...generation were well aware of the bond of familial devotion which was never broken, even by death. Now the youngest has joined her parents and her brothers and sister in close proximity where they rest in teh place that was a second home to them. This attribute is expressed in one of the songs with which she is often identified, “Bless this House.” To many young women who learned the pure joy of music with Marie Brendan, to the teachers...
Sister Caroline Hatch
...her great love for Mother Theodore on whom she modeled her life and her own child-like delight in all creation. I’ll end this by quoting one of the many comments that have been left on the Sisters of Providence website following notice of Sister Caroline’s death. This one is from Jennifer Gillis and it is directed to “Sister Sinatra.” “You will be sorely missed. You were and are beloved by every child that crossed your path and remembered with love...
Sister Margaret Kelly (formerly Sister Bernard Maureen)
...an exaggeration! Margaret remembered birthdays and anniversaries, sicknesses and deaths, and achievements of all kinds with a card, a note or a call – or all three – and many times the card came with a scratch-off lottery card. She made the telephone and the postage stamp a means of extending her love and her genuine kindness to many people in her life and in her acquaintance. In our house, Margaret addressed the cards we sent out together and they...
Teaching, healing and loving as a Sister of Providence
...while he HAD been Catholic it meant absolutely nothing to him now. In his life there was no room for either God or religion. This man was also terminally ill. I’ll call him Mr. O. The God who had seen me through those 58 sixth graders would surely not let me or my new friend down as he neared death. As his illness progressed, so did his hospitalizations. Every time I saw his name on the census list I went...
The wonder of baking
...Sick is given by a priest and the gathered community to strengthen a person who is sick or about to have surgery. “It’s a prayerful occasion,” Sister Rose Marita said. “It’s an anointing for the preparation of death. It allows a person to spring back and gives them the strength to go on for a while longer, to enjoy life. Evidently, that has worked for me.” The sacrament breathed fresh air into Sister Rose Marita’s lungs and since that November...
Healing difficult relationships through writing
Jeanne Frost, administrative assistant at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center, served as caretaker for her mother for 15 years. Her mother suffered from dementia, causing challenges in their relationship. After her death in 2014, Frost decided to attend a Mining the Dark retreat in Oldenburg, Indiana. The retreat focuses on using writing to find healing from difficult relationships. Jeanne Frost is the administrative assistant at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center “I’ve used writing to work through difficult situations since I...
‘In the Footsteps of a Saint’
...* indicates a sister who is still living Sisters’ Names (formerly known as) Surnames Entrance-Death Victorie Eckert 1847-1884 Clare Kiefer 1847-1913 Felicita Melchoir 1847-1889 St. Ange Denning 1850-1870 Mary Louise Jochim 1855-1915 Mary Blandine Morgenroth 1860-1928 Raphael Eberhard 1862-1916 Rosina Baumert 1866-1935 Ann Therese Kunkler 1969-1918 Mary Fidelia Sermersheim 1969-1936 Mary Albertine Sonderman 1970-1923 Symphorosa Fischer 1870-1936 St. Fidelis Ackerman 1870-1920 Mary Aline Friedman 1871-1873 Otillia Eckert 1873-1941 Clarissa Kuebler 1877-1945 Mary Aquila de Bruler 1883-1915 Augusta Sonderman 1885-1934 Mary...
Week 3: Walking through Lent with Saint Mother Theodore
Join us for week 3 of walking through Lent with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin with these short daily reflections. Sunday, March 12: “All the communities of the earth shall find blessing in you.” – Genesis 12:3 “Beloved: Bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God.” – II Timothy 1:8 “The moment of separation and of death had come at last. We had to leave all. After having made the most painful sacrifices, which...
Sister Rita Black
...her commentary for Sister Rita Black, who died on Thursday, March 30, 2017, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 89 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 71 years. Rita Mae Black was born on December 18, 1927, in Terre Haute, Indiana, to James Frank Black and Marie Elizabeth Black. She was one of five children, two brothers, James and Donald, and one sister, Lois, all of whom preceded her in death. We are pleased that her other...