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Sister Ann Brendan Burget
...don’t like is Sister Ann Brendan’s office because you have to stay there a long time when you do something bad.” In 2005, Sister Ann Brendan relinquished the directorship of Woods Day Care. Last week, after she had died, Sister Judy Cervizzi, current director of Woods Day Care, received several calls from personnel in day care establishments in the area, saying how much Sister Ann Brendan had influenced their careers and how respected she was in the Wabash Valley. After...
A Reflection for the 2022 Senior Jubilee
Note: If you didn’t get a chance to watch the livestream of our 2022 Senior Jubilee celebration, here is the reflection General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski offered during Mass. We need days like today! We need days like today in the life of our Church and in the life of this Providence Community. Days when we remember that God’s incarnate love needs our YES! On this feast of the Immaculate Conception, we hear once again the young Mary respond to...
Journals and Letters week 43: Jesuits and mothering and nieces
(Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” page 380 to page 388 top. This is located in “Part VI: Later Letters (1846–1856)” starting with “Letter Circular.” Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week.) Today’s letters start with Mother Theodore’s Letter Circular. In it she calls all Sisters of Providence home to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods for the summer annual meeting. Apart from Mother Theodore’s joy and happiness in this invitation, what stands out for me is her mention...
Journals and Letters week 41: Oh, Maria and other friends
...know well over these past months: Sister Maria of Madison, Bishop Augustine [Auguste] Martin of Natchitoches, Father Kundek of Jasper and Madame Le Fer de la Motte of St. Servan. Mother Theodore felt great affection, appreciation and friendship for each of them. That same affection, appreciation and friendship let her be firm (today we’d say assertive) when she had to be. How do you solve a problem like Maria? Oh, our Sister Maria! Will she ever learn? Mother Theodore repeats...
The charism of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
A photo from a daguerreotype of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin When asked to give her impressions of Mother Theodore, Susanna Alvey, who grew up as a neighbor in the then-thriving village of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, responded, “Her success was due more to prayer than to human efficiency, I think.” Through her work as innkeeper, Susanna was in a good position to note the outward signs of success through the new buildings going up nearby and the increase in visitors due to...
Called to perform: Sandra Hartlieb’s Mother Theodore
Providence Associate Sandra Hartlieb performs as Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Oct. 2 at St Simon the Apostle Catholic Church in Indianapolis. What does it take to write and perform a one-act play about Saint Mother Theodore Guerin? For Providence Associate Sandra Hartlieb, it took a calling — literally. “I was mad at Mother Theodore!” Sandra confesses. For years, Sandra had struggled with corneal degeneration. Prayers for Mother Theodore’s intervention seemed to fall on deaf ears. Fast forward to the day...
A feast-day letter to Saint Mother Theodore
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and her writing desk with artifacts from her life as will be on display in the new shrine which will open to the public on Oct. 25 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Dear Mother Theodore, Your daughters and sons of the forest are very busy these days. We’re putting the finishing touches on your beautiful shrine. I’m guessing that you wish we had not done this — building the shrine, making you known to the people of...
‘Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary’
...has invited the clergy, religious and all the lay faithful in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis to join him in churches, places of prayer or wherever they find themselves sometime between noon and 2 p.m., to pray this act of consecration in solidarity with the people affected by the war in Ukraine.) O Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, in this time of trial we turn to you. As our Mother, you love us and know us: no concern of...
2024 Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Donor Dinner Award Recipients
The annual Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Evening is a celebratory dinner for all of the donors for the Sisters of Providence. The dinner takes place to honor benefactors for their gifts of time, talent and resources, while also presenting the Queen Amelia, Sarah and Joseph Thralls, and the Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Companion awards. This year, approximately 300 benefactors and others joined the Sisters of Providence for a meal and award presentation. The theme for this year’s dinner was “Cultivating...
Journals and Letters week 32: Death, taxes and inconsiderate ladies
...place the blame on her if necessary. I find Mother Theodore’s behavior totally relatable. The way she looks after her sisters is inspiring. I love that she also recognizes the need to disconnect, recharge and enjoy life. What a good mother she was! Mother Theodore was advocating for self-care before it was even a thing! And I don’t know if people rolled their eyes when they were annoyed back in the 1800’s, but Mother Theodore may have invented the eyeroll...
Rejoice with us: A Silver Jubilee Reflection
Note: The following is the reflection General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, SP, provided for the Silver Jubilee celebration on Saturday, August 19, honoring Sisters Anji Fan and Sue Paweski for 25 years as Sisters of Providence. It seems to me that there is no better way to mark this silver jubilee celebration of Sisters Anji Fan and Susan Paweski than to use the words of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin that they themselves chose to have read to us this afternoon....
Lourdes and the Immaculate Conception
“O my mother, in your heart I placed all my anguish of my heart and it is there that I gain strength and courage.” — Saint Bernadette’s Personal Notebook Our Lady of Lourdes is perhaps the most prominent Feast Day of the month. In 1858, 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous received 18 visits from a “Lady” in Lourdes, France. The visitations started on Feb, 11th, the day we now celebrate. After several visits, Bernadette asked the “Lady” her name. The vision replied...