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The woman behind the saint
Meet Mother Theodore the woman When we think about saints we often have this image of a perfect person without the struggles or flaws of an ordinary human being — a person not of this world who spent most of their time praying and worshiping God. We forget that they are people who often had to cope with the same issues that people face today. Saint Mother Theodore Guerin had her ups and downs. Through her own words, which have...
Frustration and love: unpublished Mother Theodore
...the writer is letting go of his own opportunity inflict the violence. The writer is releasing all responsibility for punishment to God. So any act of retribution committed by the psalmist becomes a sin of lack of faith in God. Mother Theodore certainly parses no words in her criticism of Sister Maria, but in true Mother Theodore form, she provides a means of correction and shows full confidence that Sister Maria will overcome her faults even to the point of...
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin: On the instruction of children
The document in the Sisters of Providence archives with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s notes on instructing children. As the school year gets into full swing, I thought it a particularly good time to share this next previously unpublished piece from Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. The sisters in Archives sent me this as a piece that had been hand written years ago. It is from Mother Theodore’s retreat notes to sisters from between 1848 and 1850. I think it contains good...
A Litany of Women for the Church
...Edith Stein, who brought fearlessness to faith, Saint Elizabeth Seton, who broke down boundaries between lay women and religious by wedding motherhood and religious life, Saint Dorothy Day, who led the church in a new sense of justice, Mary, mother of Jesus, who heard the call of God and answered, Mary, mother of Jesus, who drew strength from the woman Elizabeth, Mary, mother of Jesus, who underwent hardship bearing Christ, Mary, mother of Jesus, who ministered at Cana, Mary,...
Journals and Letters week 10: First letters, bishop issues
[Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters“: page 71 Early Letters to page 77. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin‘s writings every week in the coming year.] This section starts the first of the letters sent from Mother Theodore from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She recorded in her diary having written 5,000 letters. Wow! A letter written by Mother Theodore with her signature. One of 5,000 letters written in her lifetime. I am so thankful that the Sisters of Providence...
Building and healing: Saint Mother Theodore Guerin moment
Construction work on reassembling the log cabin chapel at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 2012. Sister Mary Montgomery, SP, loves fresh air and walking. So it was not surprising to find her outside on a Sunday afternoon enjoying the beauty of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. It proved to be no ordinary walk. She encountered four men who were very eager to learn more about the history of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and foundress, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. That eagerness was all Sister Mary needed, as she...
My friends, the saints
I loved Halloween when I was a kid. Dressing up, canvassing the neighborhood for candy…. Best of all, if Halloween fell on a weekday, there was never school the next day — because it was a holy day of obligation, All Saint’s Day. What a great holiday! Only Christmas could trump it. Nowadays, I pay little attention to Halloween. Our street does not get trick-or-treaters. And, being a grown-up, I am aware of far too many real-life terrors to be...
Our immigrant saint: Saint Mother Theodore Guerin moment
Mother Theodore Guerin came to the United States from France in 1840, an immigrant. Like many immigrants today she did not speak English, she knew very little about the United States and its customs. She needed to find means of support for her small community in the middle of a wilderness. She had no legal status, yet her mission was to start a novitiate and an academy. A law at the time required that the alien “shall make an oath...
Sisters of Providence receive icon of foundress as gift from St. Theodore Guerin High School in Noblesville
...She was discerning whether she should become a full-time iconographer. Lundsford apologized for interrupting the conversation and asked Father Ehrman if the school could commission and icon. “An icon of who,” Father Ehrman asked. “Of Mother Theodore, of course,” Lundsford responded. “Father Dale started laughing. Jan started crying,” Lundsford said Monday (Feb. 14), the day the icon was presented to the Congregation during Eucharistic Liturgy in St. Joseph Chapel. Father Ehrman offered the official blessing for the icon. Sister Denise...
The Story on the Walls of Shells
...the walls were paved with shells that were brought from the Wabash River. The designs represent the story of Mother Theodore’s journey across the Atlantic. Mother Theodore sorted and traced out the shells herself. She had also brought with her from France a statue of Saint Anne. This is the statue that resides in the chapel today. With the help of the novices, Sister Mary Joseph Le Fer began to embed the story on the walls of what is now...
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin receives another honor
...Mother Theodore was named a Pioneer Founder of Indiana. The society honored 18 counties this year. More individuals will be honored in the next five years as Indiana prepares to celebrate its Bicentennial in 2016. In 2007, Saint Mother Theodore was honored by the group as a Hoosier Pioneer in recognition of her canonization. Mary Alice Hines, PhD., of Indianapolis offered Saint Mother Theodore’s nomination. The Society of Indiana Pioneers was established in 1916 in conjunction with the state’s centennial...
Journals and Letters week 4: Arrival on U.S. soil
[Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters“: p. 23 at New York to top of p. 29. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin‘s writings every week in the coming year.] A U.S. harbor in 1840. The first paragraph in the section “At New York” actually brought tears to my eyes. Mother Theodore noted that “the Americans [on board] were expected.”… “Not one heart was anxious about us, not one was throbbing for us. Behold houses,...