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Honoring Foundation Day
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College students with Sister Marceline Mattingly. Students will take part in the college’s Foundation Day of Service on Tuesday, October 24. While the Sisters of Providence will be celebrating their Foundation Day with a special Mass on Saturday, Oct. 21, in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, students at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) will be getting into the spirit of Foundation Day with an event of their own. Because of their fall break, they will do so on...
Earth Day Every Day: Follow the cabbage
...Each day this week, we will post a new photo and nugget of information and even a few how-to videos for starting your own seeds and making your own sauerkraut. You will even have a chance to show off your own plant babies to the world. Dorothy had the yellow brick road. We have the cabbage. Earth Day Every Day Visit our Earth Day Every Day page to find out more about caring for our planet. Earth Day Every Day...
Sister Mary Ann Lechner (formerly Sister Robert Ann)
...22 years, gave herself wholeheartedly to volunteer ministries: The Hispanic Education Center and La Plaza in Indianapolis; and at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Woods Day Care/Pre-School, Archives, Providence Spirituality and Conference Center, and the Advancement Services Office at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Of her time at the Hispanic Education Center, Sisters Marikay Duffy and Therese Whitsett had this to day: “We were honored to have had such a wonderful SP presence as part of the Hispanic Education Center for 12 years. Mary Ann arrived...
Happy Chinese New Year – the Year of the Dog
...early to visit relatives and friends, and trying to beat the traffic (and getting stuck on highways for hours), that no one is able to get up early on the third day of the new year. The third day is the day for taking it easy and getting up as late as you like! Most stores resume their business on the fifth or sixth day. Yet, the New Year’s atmosphere continues to be present until the 15th day, the Lantern...
A Reflection for the 2024 Senior Jubilarians
...in you. Sixty, 70, 75, and 80 years later, why would we not recognize this as astonishing? As you endeavored to do on Earth what Jesus did, your faithfulness has blessed countless places and people. Today, we want to return that blessing to you. So, I offer a new challenge today. Let each of us, in some way, let these women KNOW how they have blessed us by their day-to-day generosity and kindness, right here, right now. Tell them when...
A reflection for the 2018 Senior Jubilee Celebration
...not the years in their lives as Sisters of Providence that really count but the life in those years. Which brings me to Mary and the Gospel for today. Theologian Elizabeth Johnson talks about Mary’s life as offering “lessons of encouragement.” For me, that is no truer than in the encounter we find reported in today’s Gospel — the Annunciation, the memory of Mary’s great yes to God. And so I asked our jubilarians to offer some lessons of encouragement...
A Reflection for the 2025 Silver and Golden Jubilee
...the seashore with Jesus instead of Peter that Gospel morning. The church might never have been founded. Obviously, I did join the convent – no doubt because of the love of a Provident God that manifested itself around the dinner table and others like it day after day, year after year. I believe that’s what we really celebrate today as jubilarians – God’s faithfulness to us these past 70-plus years of each of our lives. God’s faithfulness to us has...
Sister Alma Louise Mescher
...afforded me the opportunity to discover the beautiful organization of life itself.’ “During the Civil Rights era Sister Alma Louise and Sister Mary Jean Mark (RIP), then a history professor at the college, went with five students from the Woods and Indiana State University to Albany, Ga., to participate in the SCOPE project under the aegis of Martin Luther King Jr. — a project which sought to get as many eligible black persons registered to vote as possible. During the...
Principles of non-violence
Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966 Paging through the newspaper the other day, I came across an interview with Ambassador Andrew Young, a close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. The interviewer asked Young many questions about his early days in the civil rights movement. Young’s responses were thoughtful, measured and obviously the product of a man who has spent a lifetime working on behalf of others. I’m glad I read the interview. But what truly caught me was the...
Finding a source of fuel
The coal tipple is all that remains above ground of the old mine. Fueling the Congregation’s needs at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods has always been of utmost importance, starting in 1840 when Blessed Mother Theodore Guerin, the foundress, first stepped foot on this sacred ground. Wood sufficed in the early years, but as the Congregation grew, so did the need for dependable, reliable fuel. In 1890, the Sisters of Providence opened Providence Convent (Providence Hall today), a technological wonder with running water...
Providence Family Services Volunteer Sister Dorothy Gartland receives Guerin Outreach Ministries Leadership and Advocacy Award
...education and justice do in her retirement? Well if it’s Sister Dorothy Gartland of Providence Family Services in Chicago, she does more of the same. Sister Dorothy, 81, a member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in Indiana, spent her younger years as a school teacher, a principal and a religious superior. She then went on to co-found the 8th Day Center for Justice in Chicago, where she dealt with issues from poverty and the nuclear arms race...
Sister Susan Paweski
Current ministry: Alumnae Relations Manager/Major Gifts Associate in the Mission Advancement office Years in the Congregation: 7 years I announced to my family that I wanted to be a Sister of Providence after my second day in first grade. The year was 1956. August 14, 2005, I professed Perpetual Vows as a Sister of Providence before our Congregation and many of my family and friends, some of whom remember when I traipsed around in a close approximation to the pre-Second...