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A God-graced moment
This article is reprinted from winter 2007 issue of HOPE. By Sister Peggy Lynch The following journal entry reflects my emotions and thoughts about the Mass of Canonization. The dark morning gives way to blue sky and sunshine as we wend our way through narrow streets — the ones the tour guide continually tells us were built for horse-drawn chariots and pedestrian traffic and not the today traffic of double-decker buses. Finally we arrive in full daylight at the gates...
In their own words: Sister Diane Ris
...It brought back the memory of the beatification [in 1998] — I was carrying up the relic at that time — and what a gift it was knowing that we were giving Mother Theodore’s bone to the universal Church and it will stay right there in Rome forever. Today, I wasn’t carrying the relic, Sister Ann Margaret [O’Hara, general superior from 2001-2006] was. Sister Nancy [Nolan, general superior from 1986-1996] and I were carrying candles; so we were lighting the...
Miracle place: it’s more than just a name
...exterior, the site is a relief to the eyes. It’s obvious that this isn’t just the home of a rare, proud homeowner. In the movies, this would be where the clouds part, a ray of light shines down and a choir of angels sings. There is something different here — something simple and beautiful happens in this place. Sisters of Providence Barbara McClelland and Rita Ann Wade founded Miracle Place, opening its doors in August 2000. When they speak of...
Letter from a saint: to Bishop Bouvier
...enemies. How often in looking at my dear Sisters leaving the chapel after night prayers have I not said to myself: It is perhaps the last time that we shall meet together at the feet of Our Lord. How often this winter have I not started out of my sleep, thinking that I heard the noise of the flames and saw their terrible light!” (“Journals and Letter,” p. 90) To view some of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s artifacts, click here....
Letter from a saint
...our enemies. How often in looking at my dear Sisters leaving the chapel after night prayers have I not said to myself: It is perhaps the last time that we shall meet together at the feet of Our Lord. How often this winter have I not started out of my sleep, thinking that I heard the noise of the flames and saw their terrible light!” (“Journals and Letter,” p. 90) For more information about Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, click here....
Treasures from Archives: Foley Hall Elevator
...Electric lights were first installed in 1890, and a fourth-story front section was completed in 1898. By 1909, the Sisters of Providence sought a contract with the Otis Elevator Company out of Indianapolis for an Electric Push Button Passenger Elevator for the Academy. The car pictured above, number 3036, was the design that the company suggested. A specification sheet dated Oct. 28, 1909, stated that the elevator had to travel from the first to the fourth floor, an approximate distance...
Women’s History Month: Such speed!
“The Eighth American Saint” describes the railroad experience of Mother Theodore and her traveling companions: “They rode to Philadelphia on the South Amboy and Camden Railroad, opened only a few years before, the first rail route between New York and Philadelphia. The locomotive, the John Bull by name, was imported from England and was the first the sisters had ever seen. It was amazingly large and the coaches were too, seating a least forty people. The train went like lightning,...
Treasures from Archives: Sister St. Francis Xavier’s slippers
...for years. Though somewhat above medium height, she was very slight of build. A pair of bedroom slippers, probably sent from France and hardly worn, preserved in the museum, are almost incredibly small. This frail physical constitution all but prevented her ever seeing Indiana at the very outset of her religious life. We have noted that on the ocean during her voyage to America in the summer of 1841, she overheard the superior of the religious of the Sacred Heart...
Don’t take yourself too seriously
...my clubs. I hope they take them right to the dumpster … Another prominent churchman has been featured in a number of tweets recently. Last week Cardinal Timothy Dolan posted a photo from Catholic University’s commencement, at which he addressed the audience in full ecclesial regalia, including the red cardinal’s cape. He mugged for the camera, striking what he dubbed his Batman pose and seemed to take great delight in poking fun at himself. The Cardinal’s speech was itself part...
From The Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...Blessed Sacrament is a religious organization in our parish (Christ, Light of the Nations) that focus in serving at the altar and Blessed Sacrament … We are highly devoted to Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. We up lift our request be granted that we ask for a relic. The relic will be placed in the church in order to receive veneration and prayers to the religious organizations, faithful parishioners, and other visitors of the parish. This request aims also to make...
Sister Nancy Reynolds watches London Olympics with keen interest, especially swimming competition
...and officiating, God’s grace was the beam of light that attracted Sister Nancy, and it still does. “We sometimes miss it because we are too tied up in ourselves. Swimming is a wonderful sport where you are more or less alone and meditation comes very easily. I have had many grace-filled moments in a pool,” she said. “There are grace-filled moments no matter where we are or what we do. As Mother Theodore has said, in order to be saints,...
Sister Mary Eleanor Galvin
...ministry of prayer. “To describe Mary Eleanor one says first of all that she was Massachusetts born and bred and forever connected. Her very speech did betray her. She was a joyous person; all those years of teaching little children had brought a light to her eyes, and an ease to her smile from which we all benefited,” Sister Mary Roger continued. “She loved poetry and music and in her younger days she had composed the text for operettas to...