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Giving others hope
...of Terre Haute, Ind. Sister Connie is director of St. Ann Dental Services. She also serves as director of St. Ann Community Outreach Services of Terre Haute and is parish life coordinator of St. Ann Parish. It’s all connected not only by programs and goals, but by the humanity served. But don’t think Sister Connie will take credit for all the good that has taken place within these walls. No, Sister Connie passes those accolades on to volunteers — the...
Practical ways to make a difference
...bag of cherries. The next day, she discovered five or six ants in her kitchen. She trapped one and took it outside her apartment. “It just made me more aware of our interconnectedness and the attitude of human beings in the past being that of superiority over all other creation. Through the years I have learned to appreciate more interconnectedness and our role in nourishing this planet and preserving this planet,” she continued. Sister Evelyn is very honest that she...
The Le Fer sisters: Gifts to the Congregation
...hoping he could prevail on the sisters to start at once with him for Vincennes. … Mother Theodore took her first postulant to Ruillé-sur-Loir to make her novitiate. Irma’s health was so delicate all the time at Ruillé that she was not permitted to set out with the little colony that left in July 1840. She had pledged herself to Vincennes, however, and she could not be happy elsewhere. … Humanly speaking she was a failure — no health, no...
Spreading the mission of Providence
...part of the mystery of God’s loving plan for all of humanity. While they are often hard to understand because of a lack of tangible reasoning, they are easy to embrace because of the excitement and faith they generate. But Sister Marie Kevin says there is more to the story. “What is really important is the way Mother Theodore lived her life. She had total dedication to God and to the people of God. Her life has been proven to...
Sister Diane Ris publishes new book about Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...only was she holy, but she was fully human.’ Put those two things together and you have a saint,” Sister Diane said. The result is a 277-page book with another 35 pages of notes and information that provides a buffet of luscious details, many of which are shared for the first time. The book is available at The Gift Shop at Providence Center at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The Gift Shop can be contacted in various ways: giftshop@spsmw.org, www.spgiftshop.com, 812-535-2947 or 866-996-2947....
Women’s History Month: God chooses the humble
Like any human, Saint Mother Theodore had her doubts about her upcoming mission to the New World. “The Eighth American Saint” describes her feelings: “What chiefly troubled her [Saint Mother Theodore] about this new mission was that its success or failure would depend on her. She was already forty-one years old, perhaps too old for pioneering; she had never been in really good health since she was a postulant. On the other hand, there were no ties of family to...
CNN to show documentary on Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...to say about her research and work at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: “This is Heaven on Earth. I’ve never been to such a beautiful place, not just the land, but the spirit here is unlike any place I’ve ever been. I’ve been very fortunate to travel the world and to see the best and the worst of humanity. But, this is singular. It makes me emotional. That’s how much I really love it here. “I am struck by the determination that had...
“The Sisters are always there”
...image in my mind as I reflect on being part of what everybody called an historic assembly is that of a young woman speaking to us during an optional session on the last day of the conference. (Optional meant that only about 850 of the 900 attendees were there.) Katie was actually part of a three-person panel, sponsored by one of the LCWR regions about human trafficking. (Fortunately, we didn’t only talk about the CDF mandate!) Although the other two...
A rest for weary bones
...for the faithful to gather up the bones of the martyrs and give them proper burial because of their belief in the sacredness of the human body and the hope of resurrection. With the canonization of Mother Theodore on Oct. 15, 2006, by Pope Benedict XVI, Mother Theodore’s remains had to be moved again. In September of that year, Duane Thompson, former supervisor of maintenance, and Dave Thomas, former Facilities Management staff member, removed her remains from the floor of...
Why I love Mother Theodore
...do believe in these stories. For me, Mother Theodore transcends our definitions and belongs to everyone. You don’t have to be Catholic to love her. You don’t even have to believe in God to love her. The portrait of Mother Theodore that I printed out and put at my desk is a lovely pen and ink drawing by beloved Terre Haute artist John Laska, who was a Unitarian Universalist, World War II vet, and life-long humanitarian and activist. I can’t...
The power of this place
...feeling the power of this place. The desire to be a pilgrim is deeply rooted in human nature; in a sense, it is archetypal. To stand where those that we admire and reverence once stood, to see the very sites where they walked and lived and worked and died, gives us a feeling of mystical connection with them and is an everyday expression of our tribute. It has the power to change a life for it is the power to...
Asking questions: Feast Day 2012
...Our times do call for embracing the cross on our way to refoundation. While I’d prefer to ignore all her teachings concerning the cross. I’m beginning to suspect I do so at my peril. The cross is part and parcel of the paschal mystery lived out in our lives day by day. Deal with all of it, I say to myself. Why? Because I do love that Mother Theodore was a real, human, passionate, loving woman of God; and I’d...