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Human Rights Day: ‘I’m grateful I had the opportunity to participate’
...served as director for the World Health Organization, and was head of the United Nations in Sudan. Three Sisters of Providence, Sisters Marsha Speth, Mary Montgomery and Donna Butler, all attended the event this year and came away with many reflections. Coincidentally, Sister Marsha represents the Sisters of Providence on the Human Rights Day Committee, and has for approximately five years. “This kind of event is where we need to be,” she said. “It fits with our mission of love,...
Sisters of Providence “employ” special education students
...around others, but because of my experience in this program I’ve adapted better social skills in a public place and I am faster at working then I used to be.” Jordan was one of the student speakers during the work skills training senior banquet last week. It brought tears to my eyes. I was inspired. What others said about them When I got back to the office, I briefly shared this experience with one of Jordan’s co-workers, Donna Kerns, Food...
Providence Associates photo highlights 2012
Sister Ann Margaret O’Hara, (blue jacket) executive director of Women of Providence in Collaboration, provides a few pointers to those helping with registration for the Providence Event 2012 on Thursday afternoon, June 14, 2012. Seated at the table are Providence Associates Lorraine Kirker of Coupeville, Wash., and Donna Watzke of Carmel, Ind. Standing behind Sister Ann Margaret is Providence Associate Marilyn Webb of Brownsburg, Ind. Providence Associates Donna Kehoe of Chicago; Carol Passmore of Skokie, Ill.; and Mel Marino Wolff...
Newsnotes
...Amelia Award, given for significant monetary gifts and for influencing others to support the Sisters of Providence went to Paul J. Adams III. The Sarah and Joseph Thralls Award, given to someone who has shared significant time and talent with the Congregation, went to Jude Magers and Donna Watzke. Our 2018 Companions Award honorees were: Father Daniel Hopcus, Barbara Cottrell, Magdalena “Maggie” Martinez, 8th Day Center for Justice and April & Donald Bradley. Donna Watzke (left) and Jude Magers (right)...
HOPE summer 2020 — The circle of giving
...emotional support to neighbors Now she spends her retirement years preparing food for shut-ins, working with the parish bereavement committee and tutoring students in English as a second language. Sister Donna Marie Fu: Called by God to serve a global church Sister Donna Marie feels she experienced such a fulfilling life in answering her own call to offer her life to God. She continues to encourage that call in other young women. She regrets that political circumstances have prevented others...
2020 Sisters of Providence Annual Meeting Adventure
...Lorraine Kirker General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski addresses the sisters and associates at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Sister Dawn on the screen in Chicago as well Providence Hall sister observers discuss, from left: Sisters Dorothy Ellen Wolsiffer, Joan Mary Schaefer, Donna Butler, Loretta Picucci, Elizabeth Meyer Some of the sisters in Taiwan, from left: Sisters Norene Wu, Anna Fan, Rose Chiu, Celeste Tsai, Donna Marie Fu and Delan Ma Small meeting group in Providence Hall Conference Room, from left back: Sisters Barbara...
Our sisters in Asia speak: What it means to be a Sister of Providence
...to be God’s tool, to do God’s will.” Sister Norene Wu: “To be a Sister of Providence for me means to lean my total trust on God together with our Providence community to share our charism with others through our work of love, mercy, and justice. No matter what ministry, journeying with others through their joy and pain and experience of God’s presence is life giving for me.” Sister Donna Marie Fu, right, helps record an event in Taiwan on...
Sister Dorothy Drobis (formerly Sister Irene Therese)
...at Misericordia Home. In 2000, she returned to the Motherhouse where she was coordinator of transportation for health care for five years before engaging in a variety of ministries in residential services. While at the Woods, Sister Dorothy companioned and mentored two women on their journey to become Providence Associates, Nancy McCaskey and Donna Gilmore. Nancy shared, “As a lifelong Episcopalian, I often peppered her with questions about Catholicism during our meetings. Her answers were ever ready; her faith was...
Sister Nancy Nolan (formerly Sister Jean Paula)
...to mind when Sister Janet Gilligan shared the following: “Nancy and my sister Donna were in the same band and became lifelong friends. Donna named her first child after Nancy — and my niece Nancy always calls her Aunt Nancy. When I was a postulant Nancy adopted me because she knew I missed my sister. Every so often I would open my prie dieu and find a candy bar from Nancy.” Nancy’s fourth-grade declaration to enter the Sisters of Providence...
Journals and Letters week 50: Mother Theodore and Summit City
...Mother Theodore. Along with Sister Ann Casper, I know of Sister Donna Butler, Sister Rita Clare Gerardot, Sister Mary Ann Fox, Sister Linda Kaliker and Sister Carol Lindly. In fact, I had the pleasure of driving Sister Donna’s brother, Steve, to visit his beloved sister at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods several times over the two years I lived in Fort Wayne. While I was at a gathering once, shortly after I moved to Fort Wayne, I mentioned where I worked. A new...
Cook County Board of Commissioners honors Congregation, Guerin Prep High School
...education; “and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a suitable copy of this resolution be tendered to the Sisters of Providence as an expression of our gratitude and esteem.” Mover: Frank J. Aguilar Seconder: Donna Miller Vote: Aye: Frank J. Aguilar, Alma E. Anaya, Luis Arroyo Jr., Scott R. Britton, John P. Daley, Dennis Deer, Bridget Degnen, Bridget Gainer, Brandon Johnson, Bill Lowry, Donna Miller, Kevin B. Morrison, Sean M. Morrison, Peter N. Silvestri, Deborah Sims, Larry Suffredin. Absent: Stanley Moore....
Providence Housing Corp. completes seventh phase of expansion
Eleven Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods joined Sister Jenny Howard, SP, and others on Thursday, June 23, to bear witness to the Congregation’s fruits of labor regarding affordable housing for those 62 and older in West Terre Haute, Indiana. (Back, from left) Sisters Donna Butler, Kathleen Bernadette Smith, Arlene Knarzer, Mary Montgomery and Carol Lindly listen to the presentation. Sisters Donna Butler, Therese Clare Carr, Theresa Costello, Kathleen Desautels, Ann Matilda Holloran, Arlene Knarzer, Carol Lindly, Mary Ann McCauley,...