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Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...Vice President of Student Affairs, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (1976-82), * Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Director of Alumnae Affairs, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (1983-85), * Indianapolis: Prison Chaplain/CPE Student, St. Joan of Arc Parish (1985-86), * Chicago: Staff Person, 8th Day Center for Justice (1986-2002), * Greenville, Ill.: Prisoner of Conscience, Federal Prison Camp of Greenville (2002-03), and * Chicago: Staff Person/Justice Promoter for Sisters of Providence, 8th Day Center for Justice (2003-18). Sister Thomas Jeanne Doriot is a native of Fort Wayne, Ind....
Get to know Providence Associate Brad Crites
...fresh focus to all that I’m doing through the lens of Providence. And I have the enjoyment and reassurance of knowing there’s a strength and energy behind me in Saint Mother Theodore and the whole community that leans on her example and intercession. The Providence Community is about being “practical saints.” As Mother Theodore says, “What have we to do in order to be saints? Nothing extraordinary; nothing more than what we do every day. Only do it for [God’s]...
Election and inauguration reflections
...health care, education are all the issues that so many in the nation view as essential for our survival. I pray daily for the success and safety of this new administration. I just celebrated by 60th birthday and this is the ultimate birthday present: President Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States of America. I am waving my flag again! Sister Margaret Quinlan On Tuesday, January 20, I turned on the television at 9:00 a.m. and watched almost all...
Rainy day on and off the farm
Tuesday was a rainy day in Vigo County, Indiana, but it didn’t mean everyone at the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice organic farm was sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Three interns pictured above (from left) Sasha, Ezra and Elaine took these three young alpacas (Sullie, Danny and Lilah) out for a walk on leads, otherwise called halter training. Aren’t they a cute bunch (the alpacas AND interns)! Then, a group of students from the sustainable farm at DePauw University at...
PFS volunteer brings love for justice, education to her work
...doing it day in and day out, despite multiple hip replacements and an age far past most peoples’ retirement. She continues to give of herself to educate young people as a foothold out of poverty. She contributes part of her awareness and drive to having lived in other-cultural, minority neighborhoods since 1969, and to being part of a vibrant Congregation of women religious at a wonderful time, right after the Second Vatican Council. In her current ministry with PFS, Sister...
Sister Marie David Schroeder
...of personal belongings), her kindness to others, her graciousness and her daily spiritual practices, especially the Rosary. At age 97, Marie David took only three pills a day – two of which were over the counter. She had many notes on natural remedies and was into holistic means even before that was fashionable. She required hardly any care from the health care staff and was very independent. She had a routine each day and stuck to it. This schedule included...
Simbang Gabi the Terre Haute way!
...when the rooster crows. The tradition started in the 16th-century. Spanish Friars, in order to accommodate farmers who began work before the sunrise, celebrated this early Mass. Novena Mass Simbang Gabi is a novena — nine consecutive days — of daily Mass at 4 a.m. It begins on the 16th of December and ends on the 24th, Christmas Eve. Simbang Gabi is a preparation for the real day of celebration of the nativity of Jesus — Pasko (Pascua de Navidad)....
School children’s cards, donation brighten sisters’ day
...January was Catholic Schools Week. Each day the school celebrated a different theme. On “celebrate vocations day” the school decided to support religious sisters. No sisters of any order have taught in the school for 25 years, Principal Scupham said. Most of the students really only know sisters through stories told by their teachers. So the day offered a chance to highlight religious sisters and have the students learn more about them. Each student was encouraged to create a card...
Sister Mary Rita Griffin (formerly Sister Mary Paula)
...Community Council as Director and Resident Manager. After leaving the Homeless Day Care Centers, Sister Mary Rita came to the Woods Day Care as Administrative Assistant and showed the same love and dedication to the children and their parents that so many in Washington had come to know as part of her life. Anytime she spoke of her work, she had an attitude of joy for what she was doing. Those of us who knew Mary well know that her...
The 2020 Annual Meeting ZOOM Adventure!
...be a ZOOM version of the gathering. We planned for two half-days, instead of our typical four days of meetings. As we approached the meeting time, I wondered: — would sisters and associates be scared off by the technology and not even sign up to participate? … would the meeting end up feeling like talking heads on a screen rather than real engagement? … do we really need to meet or is this more trouble than it’s worth? In the...
Spirituality of Acceptance: Accepting Diminishment, Illness and Loss
...day. “I get out of bed and the first words out of my mouth are, ‘What are you, O God, going to give me today’ and I start my day and before you know it, I have my answer,” said Sister Mildred “Millie” Giesler. On all four floors I walked that day, only a handful of sisters were in their rooms, which led me to believe that being out and about, being involved in life in any way they can,...
A reflection on the first profession of vows by Sister Leslie Dao
Note: The following is the reflection offered by General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski as Sister Leslie Dao professed First Vows with the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. “Talitha cumi.” These are the words Jesus says to Jarius’s daughter in today’s Gospel reading — Talitha cumi —“Little girl, I say to you, arise.” Some sources translate the word Talitha as “Little Lamb” to indicate the tenderness with which Jesus engages with the child. Leslie, today on this first profession...