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Life changing bonds that unite us
Blog post author Sister Paula Damiano, front right, joins Providence Associates and Sisters of Providence in an active prayer. Several months ago I was invited to give a retreat day for women at Our Lady of the Wayside Parish in Arlington Heights, Illinois. I made my way up to the Chicago area, spending the night with our sisters at Guerin Convent in River Grove, Illinois. After a few card games and lots of laughs, I settled in a bit early...
Transformed and transferred: reflection for the transfer of vows of Sister My Huong Pham
...herself in writing to me about today said, “I have felt I have encountered an incomprehensible experience of the divine Providence, who transformed me, renewed me, and then transferred me into the place that I must belong.” Changing Providentially, the process in which My Huong has been participating these past three years in preparation for today is called the transfer process. Transfer shares the same prefix as transfiguration—the event depicted in today’s Gospel. That prefix, “Trans,” means, among other things,...
Our Changing Woods
The following is a video blog featuring Sister Rosemary Nudd and Indiana State University Professor Dr. Jim Speer regarding the forests here at the Woods. Come take a walk in the Woods of Indiana with Sister Rosemary and Dr. Speer as they discuss how climate change is impacting and will impact our forests and our sacred responsibility. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUQ8ZpfUQkY The video was produced by Jeanne Rewa. Join us by visiting our Providence Climate Agreement page! Or learn more about how climate...
My life with the Violin
...had an orchestra as well as several vocal groups. Sister Carol Nolan shows a third-grade student how to hold a violin. She had me give a solo recital in my senior year of 1950. After I entered the Sisters of Providence Community, I taught some violin for a year at St. Andrew School in Indianapolis, but in my second and third years there, I taught second grade instead of music. Life-Changing Experiences During the next several years, I taught at...
Sister Joseph Ellen Keitzer: Blessed by the African American Catholic Community
...Martin de Porres Parish with her friends and Providence Associates, from left: Deacon William Pouncy, Adrienne Curtis-Davis, Marvin McCurry and Barbara Cottrell. In less than ten years’ time, so much was changing. The parish was down to one priest. He asked Sister Joseph Ellen to take on a parish ministry role. The parish makeup was also changing. Witness to systemic racism Sister Joseph Ellen tells of how she experienced first-hand the white flight from Chicago’s Austin neighborhood in the 1980s....
A journey of Providence on Chicago’s westside
...themselves. Even though I have been on the west side so long, things have been constantly changing all through this time — my ministry, my residence, the surrounding culture, the neighborhood and the needs of the residents. In 1976, my religious community, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the Woods, assigned me to teach music in St. Angela School, my first ministry there. I also taught in the religious education program on weekends. Changing responsibility In 1985, our pastor, Fr....
Ten years of transformation
...from volunteering on an alpaca farm/organic garden, to working in a daycare, to earning a doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine. Most recently I completed my residency training to become a Family Medicine Physician. In my personal life, my family grew by three when each of my siblings met their significant others. Friends from high school and college have steadily married and started families. Every time I visit home, the little farming town I grew up in is changing rapidly. In my...
Meet our postulant Stephanie Rivas
...daily mass and Eucharistic adoration. Most of my free time outside of work and hanging out with friends was spent at church: hanging out at church and also accompanying others on their journey. It was something I would always come back to. God has nudged me in small ways and big ways. I kept seeing sisters and nuns in my dreams, on TV, and, after I returned home from a vocation retreat, one time even at the DMV. Mission Why...
Reflecting on random acts of kindness
...That diminishment has enabled me to welcome acts of kindness and to be entirely grateful for them. I do not allow anyone to assist me if I am able to do the task myself. And still I welcome another person’s thoughtfulness when I am aware that I need support. Senseless Acts of Love Senseless acts of love for me include picking up a piece of trash or a deceased insect on the floor, changing the toilet tissue roll before it...
Oral History: Sister Dorothy Gartland
...Dorothy taught elementary school in D.C., Chicago and Indiana. Her teaching career spanned 24 years. Times were changing. Vatican II had encouraged religious orders to look at their communities and the needs of the people. Everything Sister Dorothy had experienced had prepared her for what was to come. When she taught in Brownsburg, Indiana, a sundowner town at the time, Blacks were not allowed to stay overnight. The railroad had brought a group of Black men into town to work...
Sisters bestow Rooted in Providence awards at donor dinner
...Jeanne Hagelskamp (left) with Bettye Jean Kuhn and General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski. Also recognized are individuals, families, foundations or organizations who have contributed $100,000 or more to the Congregation. These friends receive the Rooted in Providence Recognition, which celebrates donors who are invested in the mission and ministries of the Congregation. The Rooted in Providence award is a handmade stained-glass window hanging. The front of the window hanging reads “Rooted in Providence,” and the back reads “Sisters of Providence....
Sister Rebecca Keller
Download Sister stories – Sister Rebecca Keller Get to know Sister Becky Current ministry … Volunteer Services Coordinator for the Sisters of Providence at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. My close friend says … “I think too much.” Favorite recreation: walking in nature, being with family and friends, hanging out with my cat, quiet time/solitude and reading Favorite drink: hot tea Favorite author: Joan Chittister, OSB, speaks to my heart Favorite saint: my mother Favorite childhood activity: anything with my family Favorite...