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1956: a year of commemoration
...the arrival of Sister Marie Gratia Luking, who hadn’t been back to the United States since she left for the mission in Asia in 1920. [CLICK HERE] “French Nuns Enjoy Visit at Ladywood” news article from the Indianapolis Times (June 28, 1956): Sisters Gabriel Marie and Maria Joseph visit Ladywood School, Indianapolis. This is the first visit of the Sisters of Providence of Ruillé to the United States since 1906. [CLICK HERE] “Nuns Call Children of France ‘Nervous’” news article...
Sister Kathleen Kelly (formerly Sister Edward Marie)
...August 17, 2021, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She was 89 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 70 years. Sister Maureen continued: Sister Kay was born Kathleen Audry Kelly on July 21, 1932, in Chicago to Edward Joseph and Stella Moroney Kelly. Although she was baptized Kathleen, she quickly adds “(soon to be called Kay.)” She was the fourth daughter, with Rosemary, Dorothy and Alyce having preceded her. Sister Kathleen Kelly She was still a tiny baby...
Sister Jody O’Neil accompanies brother on ‘Honor Flight’
...the Vietnam War Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and then Arlington National Cemetery to witness the Changing of the Guard before heading back to Indianapolis. Family and others were encouraged to meet with all the veterans who took part in the flight following during a celebration which took place at Decatur Central High School in Indianapolis. Mike said the trip was memorable. “It was fantastic,” he said. “It was like a once-in-a-lifetime trip. I enjoyed the entire thing. Everyone seemed so...
Former Sisters of Providence a gift to the Church and society
...the work I was doing.” After leaving she used her skills as an educator, administrator and counselor and as a consultant to human resources at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. Mary Jo says: “I was a teacher while in the community from 1965-1974.When I left the community I continued to teach in Catholic schools. In 1977 I became the director of religious education at St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis, a very large intercultural parish.” Mary Jo continues in that role...
Celebrate 2016 with the SPs!
...Joni is from San Antonio, Texas. She currently ministers as the athletic director and physical education/religion teacher at Saint Patrick school in Terre Haute, Indiana. We welcomed Postulant Emily TeKolste of Indianapolis, Indiana, who entered the Sisters of Providence September 7, 2016. She joins eight other women in the initial formation in our community. In 2016 our Providential God called 10 daughters of Mother Theodore home. We offer prayers for Sisters Regina Therese Shaughnessy, Marilyn Rose Ginder, Amata Dugan, Mary...
Sister Francine McGriffin
...in social studies from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s degree in English from the University of Dayton. Between 1945 and 1994, I ministered in the following schools: St. Sylvester, Chicago; St. Thomas Aquinas, Indianapolis; Holy Family, Jasper; St. Elisabeth, Van Nuys, Calif.; the Aspirancy, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods; Schulte High School, Terre Haute; Ladywood and Ladywood-St. Agnes, Indianapolis. After obtaining my LPN license in 1973, I ministered at Methodist Hospital, Indiana University Med Center, and Americana Nursing Home, all in Indianapolis....
An unbreakable promise
Among the strange and often bizarre tourist sites described in the book “Weird Indiana” is a page devoted to the Shell Chapel at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. This tiny, quaint chapel is very distant from Mother Theodore Guerin’s home near the seashell covered, wind-swept Breton shore of northern France. But it is a monument to Saint Anne as patroness of the sailors of Brittany. And to the shells that once littered the shores of Indiana’s Wabash River and to faithfulness to a...
Sister Agnes Arvin (formerly Sister Agnes Virginia)
...a Sister of Providence for 75 years. Agnes Arvin was born Nov. 19, 1921, to Dellas and Gertrude Brewer Arvin in Bedford, Indiana. Agnes had three siblings – a brother, William, and two sisters, Amy and Rosemary – all of whom preceded her in death. Tragedy came to the family early in Agnes’ life with the death of her father in a tragic stone-cutting accident. Her mother moved the family to Indianapolis where she secured employment at St. Vincent’s Hospital,...
PEREGRINOS DE ESPERANZA: JUBILEO 2025
...a recorrer Santa Maria del Bosque. Embebiéndose en la historia y la fe Visitantes y peregrinos pueden explorar el Santuario de Santa Madre Teodora Guerin, quien fue canonizada como la única santa en Indiana el 15 de octubre de 2006. El Santuario narra la historia de su viaje desde Francia a Indiana en 1840, en donde ella y sus compañeras religiosas establecieron un ministerio de educación en la exuberante floresta de Indiana. Recorran el Santuario y observen los objetos que...
Journals and Letters week 37: Good for nothing but to love God
...health that Sister St. Francis would never survive the ocean voyage and the overland travel to Indiana. Too, Mother Mary found this young sister devoid of any talents useful to the mission in Indiana. Sister St. Francis Xavier may have been weak in body, but it seems she had a will of iron. She convinced the Bishop of Le Mans to appeal to Mother Mary. The bishop recommended that Sister St. Francis Xavier be sent to Indiana. Mother Mary denied...
Sister Mary Louise O’Connor (formerly Sister James Margaret)
...Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and went on to earn a master’s degree in education at Indiana State University. Mary Louise served in a variety of ministries. They took her to Loogootee and West Terre Haute in Indiana; to Washington, D.C.; West Palm Beach in Florida; Indianapolis and then to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. During these years of ministry, she served in a number of capacities — teacher, registrar, director of finance and admissions, guidance counselor, business and facilities manager. Her final ministry was...
Pilgrims of Hope: Jubilee 2025
...often considered a sacred site.” Jubilee 2025: A Year of Pilgrimage This year, the Catholic Church is celebrating Jubilee 2025. On Christmas Eve 2024, the late Pope Francis declared the Jubilee year would be granted the theme “Pilgrims of Hope.” The Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods The Archdiocese of Indianapolis, under Archbishop Charles Thompson, has designated three pilgrimage sites in Indiana for the Jubilee year. Among them is the Church of the Immaculate Conception and The...