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October 19, 2025: Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings Exodus 17:8-13; Psalms 121:1-8; 2 Timothy 3:14-4; Luke 18:1-8 The Scriptures for this Sunday tell stories of the faithfulness of God to his people, and our responsibility to understand and live our commitment to faith and justice in our family, our community and our country. Reflection Nothing is like a great war story to start the day, as we note in the Exodus reading! Amalek brought his forces to attack the Israelites, and the forces of Moses were no...
A Feeling of Hope
...children, homeless people, civil rights marches with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Ku Klux Klan, Hitler, the assassinations of JFK and RFK, the Iranian hostages, the atomic bomb, signs proclaiming, ‘Save the Whales,” and ‘Make Love, Not War.’ What is so striking to me is that not much has changed in the almost 40 years since this video was made. We are still dealing with war, famine, racism, threats to the environment. No Sadness, No Despair But after listening...
Foundation Day 2014 reflection
Sister Denise in the Church of the Immaculate Conception giving her reflection. Welcome to each and every one here! Happy, happy Foundation Day! One hundred and seventy-four years ago today, Father Buteux began our history at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods by saying: “Come down, Sisters, we have arrived.” Who was it who had arrived? Five women from France: Mother Theodore Guerin, who at the age of 42 was the superior and senior citizen of the group; Sister St. Vincent Ferrer Gagé, 40...
Counsel and guidance to middle schoolers
Providence Associate Lorrie Scheidler with a student at Otter Creek Middle School in Terre Haute, Indiana, where Lorrie works as a school counselor. Providence Associate Lorrie Scheidler has worked 16 years as a school counselor at Otter Creek Middle School in Terre Haute, Indiana. She wouldn’t describe her work as mercy. But as I listen to her stories of sixth–eighth grade students and situations she encounters each day, that is how I describe it. “I had a student just yesterday...
Simbang Gabi the Terre Haute way!
...when the rooster crows. The tradition started in the 16th-century. Spanish Friars, in order to accommodate farmers who began work before the sunrise, celebrated this early Mass. Novena Mass Simbang Gabi is a novena — nine consecutive days — of daily Mass at 4 a.m. It begins on the 16th of December and ends on the 24th, Christmas Eve. Simbang Gabi is a preparation for the real day of celebration of the nativity of Jesus — Pasko (Pascua de Navidad)....
This Good Friday: Is COVID-19 the only pandemic about which we need to pray?
Good Friday came early for me this year. As much as the current coronavirus pandemic most certainly has brought worldwide suffering and has had me on my knees in prayer, the Good Friday experience of which I write actually happened on the first Sunday in Lent and had nothing to do with the virus. A memorial on the west bank of the Wabash River for George Ward. On March 1, I attended the soil collection ceremony for George Ward, who...
Sister Jacquelyn Hoffman (formerly Sister Theodata)
...the spirits of all those sisters who valued her musicianship so much. I will never forget that when my husband died in 2009, Sister Jackie and Sister Lisa graciously agreed to play for his funeral and they did so beautifully. It remains a comforting memory for me.” In addition to her service to the church, Jackie spent her days working with the children at Woods Day Care, where she taught pre-school children music and served as receptionist at the front...
Slow down before you speed up.
...the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. years ago during an All Saints Feast Day Liturgy. The Catholic Church recognizes Nov. 1 as All Saints Day, and Nov. 2 as All Souls Day. The first, All Saints Day, is just as it sounds. It is a day dedicated to remembering saints such as our own beloved Saint Mother Theodore. All Souls Day, celebrated the very next day, is set aside to honor the dead. Many other religions and cultures also...
Woods Day Care/Pre-School to close
Citing a growing number of concerns, the Sisters of Providence have sadly announced the closing of Woods Day Care/Pre-School (WDC/PS), a sponsored institution for close to three decades. The closing will coincide with the final day of the 2013-14 calendar school year for the Vigo County School Corporation, scheduled for Friday, June 6. “After careful consideration of financial and enrollment realities, the General Council of the Sisters of Providence has decided to close what has become an outstanding child development...
Why do I love Saint Mother Theodore?
...Theodore Guerin’s Feast Day (October 3) and our Foundation Day (October 22). I would like to share a practical reflection on how I love our dear Mother Theodore. How do I relate to her as a daughter of Providence? Daily Wisdom I have a habit of reading her quote of the day every morning before beginning my “worldly tasks.” It becomes a routine for me to seek some kind of consolation, affirmation or just her daily wisdom before engaging in...
Palm Sunday
...above information rattle around in me for a few hours — still wondering what to say about Palm Sunday. I found myself returning over and over to the phrase “since victory signals an end to a conflict …” Did/does Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem signal an end to conflict? It doesn’t seem so — not in the face of what we know we will commemorate in the coming week — Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday. And we know that Easter...
Listening, loving, letting go: reflection for profession of vows
General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski gives her reflection at the vows ceremony. Sisters Anna Fan and Tracey Horan, first vows; Sister Dina Bato, perpetual vows Sunday, June 25 The Scripture readings given to us for this Sunday of our Church year make several references to whispering. In the Gospel of Matthew, we hear Jesus come right out and make a demand about those whispers — “What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light; and what you hear...