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The 2020 Annual Meeting ZOOM Adventure!
...be a ZOOM version of the gathering. We planned for two half-days, instead of our typical four days of meetings. As we approached the meeting time, I wondered: — would sisters and associates be scared off by the technology and not even sign up to participate? … would the meeting end up feeling like talking heads on a screen rather than real engagement? … do we really need to meet or is this more trouble than it’s worth? In the...
The Season of Creation 2022
...Platform commitment to climate justice. Season of Creation History In 1989, Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitros I proclaimed Sept. 1 as the Orthodox Day of Prayer for Creation. Subsequently, the World Council of Churches (WCC) extended the celebration until Oct. 4, the Feast Day of Saint Francis of Assisi. In turn, in 2015, Pope Francis made the Season of Creation official for the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis expressed in 2015: “The annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation...
Oral History: Sister Carol Nolan
Note: This oral history, written by Providence Associate Debbie Griffey, coincides with Sister Carol’s birthday today. Happy Birthday, Sister Carol! “I didn’t want anything to do with it. I wanted to get married.” — Sister Carol Nolan, SP Sister Carol Nolan never intended to be a Sister of Providence of Saint Mary of-the-Woods. Carol already had one sister who was in the community and another who had decided in fourth grade she would join the Sisters of Providence when she...
Sister Patricia Geis (formerly Sister Anna Marie)
...will greet Patty with open arms on this her final adventure, her transition into eternal life. Funeral services for Sister Patricia took place on Monday, April 24, and Tuesday, April 25, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. A Wake took place from 2:30-4:30 p.m., on Monday, April 24, followed by commentary. Mass of Christian Burial took place at 11 a.m., on Tuesday, April 25. Memorial contributions may be made in honor of Sister Patricia to the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods....
Lives of the Saints
...folk,” in heaven referred to as saints (except may on All Saints Day) … and if they were, they were certainly overshadowed by the “real” saints. It wasn’t until I was in about fifth-grade that I began to think differently about sainthood. My most treasured possession is a letter that my father wrote to me the day after I was born. In it, he didn’t send me to “Lives of the Saints” as my model for living. Rather, he encouraged...
Sister Mary Montgomery
...Friday mornings, people at the table are saying, “Oh, it’s Friday. You’re so glad it’s the weekend.” I thought that would be changing here because people are retired. No, they are not retired. They are in their 80s, off working five days a week at their various volunteer posts. They are just very inspiring to me, very inspiring. The community is the support – interested in one another’s life and ministry. The community prayer I have enjoyed very much. I’ve...
Sunday, January 30, 2022: Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman, the Syrian. When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were filled with fury. They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong. But Jesus passed through the midst of them and went away. Reflection This Sunday’s gospel starts where last Sunday’s ended....
New designs from a tree’s former fullness
A huge white oak tree fell to the ground one day last week. Well, it wasn’t really a huge white oak tree. It was Huge. Not really. It was HUGE! It was old. Well, it was OLD. (Maybe the tree greeted Mother Theodore and her companions as they explored their forest home.) The day the tree fell, the sun shone; the sky was bright blue and cloudless. Even a slight breeze would have been welcome to stir the hot and...
Remembering a ‘Star Teacher’
...Sister Helen Rose, one of her favorite sentences (which she encouraged her students to memorize) was from the Aeneid: “Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.” (Translation: Perhaps someday it will help to remember even these things.) I can still hear Sister saying these words and their English translation in her crisp, clear manner, including the exact location and time of day when she said them, as if it were yesterday. (Note: The author of these remembrance was born in 1943...
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin: bearing the light still today
...I do it,” she said. Sisters of Providence and supporters at right cheer on Saint Mother Theodore as she bears the torch during the relay. Sister Ann says that Saint Mother Theodore is very much alive among the Congregation and those who know her. “It is as if she is still with us. She is so present. I sense her presence. “And her story is still very relevant today. She was an immigrant. She came to a foreign land where...
Rainy day on and off the farm
Tuesday was a rainy day in Vigo County, Indiana, but it didn’t mean everyone at the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice organic farm was sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Three interns pictured above (from left) Sasha, Ezra and Elaine took these three young alpacas (Sullie, Danny and Lilah) out for a walk on leads, otherwise called halter training. Aren’t they a cute bunch (the alpacas AND interns)! Then, a group of students from the sustainable farm at DePauw University at...
But this Thanksgiving, we choose gratitude
...Wednesday, Nov. 9 (2011). It said simply, “An ordinary day.” I have such friends and family. I don’t pay enough attention to the good food I am able and privileged to eat, but I probably will now! And the next time I have an ordinary day, I am going to make note of it, and give thanks for it because we all need those kinds of days every now and then. After my foray into Barbara’s gratitude practice, I make...