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Sister Beth Wright
...will happen as a day unfolds. However, no day is the same so it keeps the ministry interesting and life-giving. Many of my daily encounters are surprising and unique. Q. How much influence does Saint Mother Theodore Guerin have in your life? How do you live out her legacy today? A. That is part of where we are as a community right now, carrying on the legacy of Mother Theodore and her five companions, and adding our own contributions in...
Sunday, January 16, 2022: Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
...on the door, a phone call or an email can upset our plans for the day. Our response is what discerning God’s will looks like each day. Responding may set us in a new direction or call us back to what we had been doing. These minute-by-minute decisions gradually shape the course of our lives. This is why it’s important to look back daily and notice how we have responded to God’s call which comes in these little simple details...
Oral history: Sister Marian Brady the scholar
...kept going back day after day. Nobody home. Nobody home. Sister Marian Brady, center, with the St. Raphael province Chapter in 1980. From left, Sisters Joan Matthews, Eleanor McAuliffe, Marian, Helen Mary Walsh and Marie Esther Sivertsen. “I thought, well they said no one had ever had a philosophy degree so I went to the Philosophy Department. They were home!” The Dean at the Philosophy Department told her he believed her record was there and he went to retrieve it....
Being love, mercy and justice in parish ministry
...him if he would like me to come back another day. He seemed very tired. “No, he said. I want to share some more now. Please stay.” He had a lot on his mind and heart. I stayed. I listened and we prayed, and I promised I would come back. This gentleman died 2 days later. It was Providence that there was even time that week for this visit. One day I received a call from the school nurse of...
The remarkable life of Mother Marie Gratia Luking
...at the gate of Ching I where 1,400 women and children were sheltered. Sister Marie Gratia met them at the gate and asked to see a letter from their officers authorizing them to enter. They left and none of them ever came back. Sister Marie Gratia managed these camps of 1,400 refugees, caring for their physical needs and keeping them occupied in the day-to-day running of the camp. One area was set aside as a maternity ward, and 10 babies...
Sister Jane Marie Osterholt
...with each other living out the traditions given to us by Mother Theodore . It’s also how we are with our publics. It’s a different type of spreading God’s word. It’s seeing it through a different lens. Q. Why would a woman today find religious life an attractive life choice? A. I believe that God continues to call women today, and, yes, it is a challenge, but it also is saying yes to that deepest part of God inviting you...
For Sister Suzanne, prayer is life
...a nearby sun porch for communal prayer. “And I treasure that. That’s important to me,” she says. Friday mornings she spends an hour in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel praying before the Eucharist. Sister Suzanne Buthod prays with her Bible during quiet prayer time. How much time does she spend each day in prayer? “Well, the morning offering includes everything: prayers, works, joys and sufferings,” she says. In that sense, her whole day becomes prayer. “Prayer is all-permeating, inclusive. Prayer is...
Celebrating National Haiku Poetry Day!
Five – seven – five! It’s really that simple! If you can county syllables, you can celebrate Haiku Poetry Day. And you really should. After all, April is National Poetry Month. So dive in to one of the simplest, yet most profound forms of verse. It’s just three lines – five syllables in the first, seven in the second, and five in the last. That’s 17 syllables in all – short and sweet! ‘Light Verse’ The work “haiku” is a...
Sister Joyce Brophy
...the need became evident for quality day care for the children of employees on both sides of the campus at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. When the Montessori School at Saint Mary-of-the- Woods College closed, the opportunity to use that area enabled this day care idea to become reality. Sister Barbara Doherty, then the college’s president, was very open to this plan. The college provided the space and the Congregation assumed sponsorship of the corporation. Many of our retired sisters have given time...
Providence Associates Saint Mother Theodore Guerin retreat 2014
...on Saturday begins. “Saint Mother Theodore Guerin” makes a surprise appearance at the start of the vigil on Saturday evening. Sisters and associates join hands in prayer during the mass on Saturday. It can be hard for a mommy of a young baby to get away for retreat, so Tracy Green brought her family with her. Here Tracy, left, and her husband look on as their two young daughters entertain Sisters Joan Matthews and Tracy’s associate companion Sister Rosemary Eyler....
Providence Associates retreat with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...her. Here Tracy, left, and her husband look on as their two young daughters entertain Sisters Joan Matthews and Tracy’s associate companion Sister Rosemary Eyler. Sisters and associates join hands in prayer during the mass on Saturday. “Saint Mother Theodore Guerin” makes a surprise appearance at the start of the vigil on Saturday evening. The vigil to be kept at Saint Mother Theodore’s tomb throughout the night on Saturday begins. The first group begins a vigil with Saint Mother Theodore...
Feast Day of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
October 3, 2025 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT Church of the Immaculate Conception 1 Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 Sisters of Providence Free The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, and Providence Associates invite persons of all faith traditions to join them in person or virtually for the Eucharistic Liturgy (Mass) at 11 a.m., on Friday, Oct. 3, to celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, the eighth American Saint and foundress of...