Search Results for label/Interfaith Power and Light
Getting too many results? To search for an exact phrase, try putting multiple word phrases in quotation marks (such as "Saint Mother Theodore") to narrow your results.
One Good Day: Thoughts on Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving gives me mixed emotions. Yes, it is a time of joy, a celebration of the Plymouth Colony’s first successful harvest. They would never have survived without the help of the Wampanoag (which translates to “People of the First Light”), who showed them how and when to plant and reap the foods that would sustain them through their second winter in America. (During the first terrible winter, nearly half of them died.) But what happened to the Wampanoag tribe after...
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Sister Hang Tran!
Sister Hang Tran has been a Dominican Sister of Tem Hiep, located in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, for 17 years. In August of 2019, Sister Hang traveled out of her home country for the first time in her life to come to the United States to study exercise science at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and has been staying with the Sisters of Providence. “I want to help my family and our elder sisters, as well as the poor in...
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Sheila Donis!
Born in Chicago, Providence Associate Sheila Donis was educated by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. During her eighth-grade year, Sheila had Sister Mary Lee Mettler, SP (RIP) in class and she has never forgotten the experience. Providence Associate Sheila Donis (standing) with Sister Dorothy Wolsiffer. “Sister Mary Lee encouraged my artistic abilities,” Sheila commented. “I remembered that through the years.” Sheila was, at one time, a Sister of Providence. But after several years of being away from...
Sunday, March 27, 2022: Fourth Sunday of Lent
...prodigal son, or the eldest son? For most of us – and certainly for me – it’s the eldest son that resonates. Yet Henri Nouwen, in his book The Return of the Prodigal Son posits that the eldest son’s fate is the most dire, because he utterly rejects joy. Although he is called to join the festivities and enter the light, the eldest son refuses. Will he come around? Will he acknowledge his own lostness? God invites all of us...
Volunteer Spotlight: The Sister Volunteers
For nearly two years, the hallowed doors of Providence Hall were closed to the public, leaving many Sisters of Providence saddened because of the lack of communication with visitors from a face-to-face perspective rather than just talking to people on the phone. Prior to the COVID-19, visitors at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods would often find their way to Providence Hall, also known as the Motherhouse, and stop to chat with the several Sisters of Providence who volunteer in the building’s phone room...
Moving forward, exuding happiness: Sister Grace Marie Meehan
...of her former pupils. Happily doing the work Sister Grace Marie listens to another sister at a community gathering Gracie, as she is fondly called, has always been known as someone who does not fret and worry. A cheerful, giving person, light- hearted and happy. But she is also a risk taker who broke down barriers. In the 1960’s she was the school principal in Greenwood, Indiana. A well-qualified African American applied for a teaching job, and Sister Grace Marie...
Racism’s infection within American healthcare
...shining a light on this important social justice issue in our country. Hospitals, doctors, nurses, and all other facets of healthcare have the obligation to instill an inherent sense of safety and security in its patients. But rampant racial health disparities prove that this feeling is not always able to be reciprocated among people of color. The ability to feel trustworthy of the American healthcare system is unquestionably a privilege of being white. Throughout history, healthcare has been shown to...
Volunteer Spotlight: Jack Worley and 10 years of #AlpacaLove!
Before becoming an all-star Sisters of Providence volunteer, Jack Worley worked at the Terre Haute Post Office for 36 years. Upon retirement, he and his wife Patty were looking for a volunteer opportunity that involved animals. “We worked at the Humane Shelter but the dogs were so noisy,” Jack recalled. Then, Patty noticed an advertisement to volunteer at the Woods. Despite never having worked on a farm or interacted with animals that were not pets, Jack threw himself into caring...
Advent: My favorite Church season
If I were to be asked to name my favorite Church season, hands down, it would be Advent. In preparing to write this blog, I reflected on why I felt that way and I decided it was a mixture of ritual and moods. What are some of those rituals? Lighting candles on the Advent wreathe, one week at a time, creates a mood of expectation, surrounded by the calm and peace a lighted candle brings. It beckons me to quiet,...
What I love about being a Catholic Sister
...three children and the only girl, I felt from the beginning that I had to stand and defend myself. I think this became one of my character traits. Sister Marilu Covani At grammar school with the religious of “La Santa Union de los Sagrados Corazones,” I learned about and found my God, a benign and loving force who has been my Savior, companion and guiding light. Possible Call As a teenager and young woman, I began to study medicine. I...
March 26, 2023: Fifth Sunday of Lent
...twelve hours in a day? If one walks during the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if one walks at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” He said this, and then told them, “Our friend Lazarus is asleep, but I am going to awaken him.” So the disciples said to him, “Master, if he is asleep, he will be saved.” But Jesus was talking about his death, while...
June 25, 2023: Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...so hard to help his followers know the love that God, his Abba, has for us and for all of creation. That love just seems to ooze out of portions of this passage. I was touched particularly, by Jesus words to speak in the light what he speaks in the darkness. Those words are often words of encouragement. I delight to believe that Jesus is so close to me that I can hear his whispers. But to hear what is...