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A brief history of the mission to the Chinese
...Providence and Providence Sister-Catechists moved to Taiwan, then known as Formosa, and settled in Taichung. Here, Sister Marie Gratia tirelessly worked to build a college, now known as Providence University. In 1960 Sister Marie Gratia was honored by Mother Rose Angela Horan with the title of “Mother,” which was generally reserved for the general superior of the Congregation. Mother Marie Gratia died Oct. 29, 1964. To learn more about Mother Marie Gratia Luking, please click here. To purchase Sister Ann...
The 2011 installation of the General Officers
From left to right: Sisters Dawn Tomaszewski, Denise Wilkinson, Lisa Stallings, Mary Beth Klingel and Jeneen Howard. When the General Councilors and I planned this liturgy, we quickly chose as its theme the Mother Theodore quotation that appears on the cover of your worship aid: “Perfect abandonment of ourselves in all things for the future requires great courage, but we ought to aspire to it.” — Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. For the five of us, and I believe for all...
Sisters honor five with Saint Mother Theodore Companion awards at donor dinner
The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, hosted approximately 250 benefactors and others on Saturday, June 7, for their annual Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Donor Dinner. The dinner, which has taken place since 2000, is hosted to honor benefactors for their gifts of time, talent and resources, while also presenting the Queen Amelia, Sarah and Joseph Thralls, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Companion, Rooted in Providence and Dujarié awards. The theme for this year’s event was “Jubilee 2025: Pilgrims of...
Sister Marie Kevin Tighe
...in my heart.” I suspect that Marie Kevin lit many a fire in her nearly 90 years – in the hearts of family members, her sisters and all who call her friend. A sister visiting her in these final days told Marie Kevin, “I wish Mother Theodore would help you. You helped her so much,” to which Marie Kevin replied, “But she’s busy managing this whole place.” Let us all take heart then that Mother Theodore now has someone at...
Sisters of Providence celebrate Jubilees
...Her ministries include: Taichung, Taiwan: Young Christian Workers, Prison Ministry, Providence College (1971-73), Taishan, Taiwan: Young Christian Workers, Mother Gratia Spirituality Center (1973-75), Taichung, Taiwan: Campus Minister, Young Christian Workers, Prison Ministry, Providence College (1975-76), Taishan, Taiwan: Director of Hostel, Mother Gratia Spirituality Center (1978-80), Taipei, Taiwan: Counselor, Hostel, Secretary Bishop’s Committee, Lin-Kuo Parish, Fu Jen Catholic University, Mother Gratia Spirituality Center (1980-82), Taishan, Taiwan: Secretary Bishop’s Committee, Hostel, Lin-Kuo Parish, Director of Formation, Mother Gratia Spirituality Center (1982-84), Taipei,...
Taiwanese sister journeys home with the Sisters of Providence
...was no longer for me the land of exile; it was the portion of my inheritance, and in it I hope to dwell all the days of my life.’ The Woods has become that for me — no longer a place of exile.” Another comparison with Mother Theodore emerged. “Mother Theodore wanted to be a missionary in Russia or China. When I was young, I always wanted to join an international community and be a missionary in a third world...
Sister Barbara Doherty
Current ministry: Coordinator, Office for the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Years in the Congregation: 56 years Little did Barbara Doherty know she was etching the beginning of a career path when she arranged those chairs into a temporary classroom at her grandmother’s home each Sunday. She was the oldest grandchild in the family, and she would gather her cousins together to teach them. “I don’t know what I tried to teach them,” she said, laughing. “But I made...
Deep love and healing
...never heard of the Sisters of Providence, so he wrote to Sister Mary Roger Madden. She replied that the donor wished to remain anonymous. “To this day,” he said, “I have no idea who it was. No idea.” Sister Marie Kevin Tighe also reached out to Ezra during this time. She sent him a long letter, a copy of Mother Theodore Guerin’s Journals & Letters, and three Sisters of Providence history books. Then she sent another letter, in which she...
Docent of the Moment: Sister Barbara Bluntzer and Her Jubilee Year Ministry
...stay for Mass. Pilgrims and people of all faith traditions are also invited to join the Congregation during the second Tuesday of each month for ecumenical Taizé Prayer services. Sister Barbara added that when she guides visitors through the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, many of them are learning about the Eighth American Saint and Indiana’s only saint for the first time, including seeing many artifacts within the Shrine that Mother Theodore actually used. “They are very respectful,” Sister...
Sister Michaela Galvin
...close to her brother Neil and nephews Joe (here today) and Michael. She was grateful for the 1960’s and the changes in community practices that allowed her to care for her mother for several years. A story from this time affords another glimpse of her approach of life’s realities. During a time when her mother had to be in a health care facility, Michaela visited her mom one rainy day. In came the daughter of her mother’s roommate with a...
A Priceless Gift
...when the sisters wanted to make an extreme sacrifice to God for a particular need of the Congregation, some would choose to destroy Mother Theodore’s personal letters to them. But the preservation of documents which reveal the spirituality of individual sisters or of the Congregation does not stop with Mother Theodore. The Archives has countless holdings including, but certainly not limited to, the personal letters and diaries of individual sisters, convent diaries, and the instructions/ reflections and letter circulars of...
Journals and Letters week 27: Dawn of a new era
[Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” page 244 to page 252 top. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week in the coming year.] In these letters we read Mother Theodore’s first-hand account of all the changes that happened toward the end of Bishop de la Hailandière’s tenure as Bishop of Vincennes. There were a few things that really struck me as I read this section. Reading how all the people in Mother Theodore’s...