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Sister Anji Fan
...the freedom to explore. They hoped their children’s education would open the world and create more opportunity,” Sister Anji said. “I was first taught by my parents, and I was attracted by the idea or image of being a ‘holy nun’ because of their life of praying and serving — no involvement with political or social movements, no disruption by consumerism or materialism — and their physical appearance,” she said. She became acquainted with a few women religious and was...
Sister Bernice Kuper
...decades women have changed, and so have their questions and their needs and desires. “Women who are applying today are older. The ones whom I respond to are in their late 20s and their 30s. There is a movement in the Church today that is kind of wanting to go back to what was. There is a large group of women searching for communities that wear the habit. I don’t know quite why that is. It’s probably coming out of...
A Civil War widow joins the Sisters of Providence
...that tragedy struck Sister Frances de Chantal. Which source is correct? Historians work with many primary sources and secondary sources to better understand an event, person, movement and so on. However, as the following information about the death of Sister Frances de Chantal All-Dufficy illustrates, sources can be conflicting because memories can fail or misinformation can be provided to a person who is recording an event. Letter from Mary Grace Tiernan Roberts to Sister Mary Borromeo Brown, Congregation historian Mary...
Bold strokes
...brings new revelations and new challenges,” Sister Jody said. Even with the challenges, Sister Jody knows her ministry is energy-giving. “I experience artistic expression as a spiritual energy that emerges from the deepest realms of the soul. This energy with line and form, both initiates a response and responds to the movement of Creator and creation,” she said. “It is important for me to be totally creative and see what emerges. To me, the surprise is to create something, look...
Sister Mary Montgomery
...work and through the Gilchrist-Conway Fund. That’s for sisters to have Third World experiences. That’s how I was introduced to El Salvador and Guatemala. We had a group when I was in Bloomington that raised funds to build a school in El Salvador. That was fun, very challenging and a lot of work. I’m not a great fund-raiser. I’ve been to Nicaragua, Bolivia and Kenya. I got to meet Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and Nobel Peace...
The Joy of Vatican II
...thinkers particularly in France, Germany and Belgium. In the 1930’s and 1940’s, Austrian Jesuit Josef Jungmann published books showing the changes that accrued to the sacrament of Penance and the Mass between the patristic era and the medieval and modern church. In 1946 Jean Daniélou, the French Jesuit spoke of a “new theology”, and a year later Henri de Lubac, S.J., directed attention to study of the early Fathers. O’Malley sums up the movement in these words: “It was an...
Sister Diane Ris (formerly Sister Martin Therese)
...beloved friend and confidant, Ma Mere, as she lovingly called Mother Theodore, and communing with God. The book was published in August 2011. “I found this quote among retreat notes of Diane. It was important to her these last few years. ‘Your life is a sacred journey. And it is about to change: growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous...
Sister Conrad Monrad
...a divorce.” In a few years the program began to use computers, rather than using only snail mail for sending assignments. Sister Conrad was part of that movement, of course. In her file in Archives are some pictures taken in 1989 at a workshop in math and computer systems, given to interested sisters here during the summer, as she dragged us into the computer world. Upon her retirement as a full-time faculty member at the college in 1999, when she...
Sister Catherine Livers (formerly Sister Agatha)
...Sister Theresa Nguyen said that heaven must now be full of truffles. She was very creative in liturgical movement and prayer services. She was committed to healthy living and exercise. The first day I lived with her I did a double-take when passing her room; she was standing on her head. Catherine was simple in her own clothing but was helpful to others. During the days when we were transitioning into contemporary dress she had a roving common fund of...
Sister Bernice Kuper (formerly Sister Ann Bernice)
...Hall community; to continue radiation treatment when the cancer recurred; to cease treatments when it was shown that the radiation hadn’t been very effective against the cancer. Her recent fall, the resultant broken pelvis, the encroaching cancer finally took its toll in the last two weeks. So, with equal parts rejoicing and grieving, we mark Bernice’s movement into freedom, into new and everlasting life, into the fullness of the presence of Providence, whose faithful witness she was. Yesterday, I opened...
A historical snapshot of the SP human rights efforts
Sisters Alma Louise and Mary Jean set out to register voters in Albany, Ga., during the civil rights movement. The Sisters of Providence join people around the world in celebrating Martin Luther King Day on Monday. Through various ministries and outreach programs, the sisters support human rights, anti-racism and other social concerns. If you have a chance, visit our Peace & Justice section for additional information on ongoing efforts. Whether it was Saint Mother Theodore Guerin who, returning from a...
All things possible with Sister Janice Smith
...to say, ‘Look, look what’s going on. Open your eyes. I can say that because I was walking the same path,” Sister Janice said. Having stretched her own boundaries, her message to women in discernment is, “Stay open, keep looking, keep searching. You can’t force it. Stay open to the movement of the Spirit within you, and don’t try to prescribe what might happen. “I couldn’t have picked a better congregation,” Sister Janice said. “The sisters are so connected to...