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Growing at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice
...University of Notre Dame in 2013. At the time she was a Providence Associate candidate and had volunteered at the Earth Day celebration. “What this internship was for me was a time of transformation, challenge, and healing. Working every day in the sun was exhausting, but exhausting in the best way. Sister Dawn [Tomaszewski, her Providence Associate companion] used to tease me that she had never seen me happier than when I was in my overalls covered in mud —...
Reflecting on Palm Sunday 2019
...King of the Jews, save yourself.” Or, best of all, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Like: I wish I’d never said yes to writing this blog. But, I did. So here’s my one slender thread of a thought. Does Palm Sunday mark the beginning of the last chapter in the life of Jesus? Or does Palm Sunday mark the end of believing that there is a last chapter in the life of Jesus? Or in the life of any of us?...
Inspiring exercisers
...20 minutes every day. These thoughts got me wondering if I could find any Sisters of Providence who work out. Whew! Did I ever. And it was more inspiring than I imagined. Take Sister Helen Dolores Losleben, for instance. Sister Kathryn Koressel leads a stretching class in the basement of Providence Hall. Sister Helen rides the stationary bicycle 20 minutes every day. During that time, she says she gets through all three mysteries on her rosary, which hangs from her...
Sister Mary Adrian Jaroch
...to whom she ministered in hospice care in Connecticut years ago knew her as a kind and loving presence. An article in her file included these comments. “I am writing (Hospice) to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking care of my grandmother, Etta Rose . … Please tell Sister Mary Adrian we send love and thanks. My grandmother was Catholic and sister made my grandmother’s day very happy. …” As one man wrote to Mary...
Sister Cathy Buster
...Recreation: Swimming, visiting with friends. Hobby: Cooking. Flowers and plants: Roses and geraniums. Sport: College and NFL football. Music/song: Classical/Let there be Peace on Earth. Pizza topping: Supreme. Holiday: Christmas. Author: Joan Chittister, OSB. Scripture passage: Let it be done to me according to your word. (Luke 1:38) Dessert: Chocolate anything. Time of day: Early morning. Season: Spring, new life. Actor/actress: Kathryn Hepburn. Saint: Mother Theodore Guerin Least favorite food: Any food with garlic. Least favorite course in school: Education....
Sister Edna Scheller
...of birth and date of death. The poem popularized the phrase, “Live your dash,” i.e., spend each day with passion and purpose, or as Jesus put it, spend each day “bearing fruit that will abide.” And Edna certainly did that! She was always for others and inspired others by “living her dash.” She is remembered for “fruit that abides” – her life of joy, compassion, service, and kindness. Edna Mae Scheller was born May 28, 1932, in Evansville, Ind., to...
Sister Lisa Stallings
...It’s like my shadow self or something. You’re totally out of control. It’s very freeing for me. I love to do it and I do it every year. Favorites Pizza topping: Mushrooms Holiday: Thanksgiving Dessert: Bread pudding Time of day: Putting my head on the pillow Season: Spring Childhood activity: Playing with plastic cowboy figures Hero/heroine: Dorothy Day Course in school: American literature or music theory Saint: Mother Theodore, of course; next, Cecilia Recreation: Playing music Sport: Football Animal: Cat...
Fathers speak out against death penalty
...crumbled structure of the federal building daily for months “because that was the last place Julie was alive,” he said. He talked about how he doubled his cigarette habit to three packs a day and increased his dependency on alcohol so he could sleep at night. The hangovers grew worse until they lasted most of the next day, until it was time to drink again. Bud wanted Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols “fried. I would have killed them myself if...
‘We’re all grateful for your CONNECTION’
...kind of word our Saint Mother Theodore likes to use. Mother Theodore who always, it seems to me, is effusive in her descriptions of many things. But none more so than in her descriptions found in today’s reading: How magnificent; how beautiful and majestic; valleys that defy the imagination as they spread their lush greenness; the eye is lost in the ravishing spectacle. Connection However, one word that came to me through all these readings. (And additionally, through the letters...
Sister Barbara Bluntzer
Current ministry: Volunteer, St. Pius X Parish, Corpus Christi, Texas Years in the Congregation: 60 years Something I have always wanted to do is: go to Iceland or conduct an orchestra when it plays Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture. If I weren’t an SP, I’d: probably be living in the country raising some animals. Sister Barbara Bluntzer knows just how to start and end her day. “Saint Mother Theodore (Guerin) said, ‘Send your heart a thousand times a day to the tabernacle.’...
Sister Rita Clare Gerardot
I have chosen to write my commentary on my mother’s birthday as she was the greatest influence in my life. Lillian Ternet was born in 1888, an only child. She lived her entire life in a small French settlement known as Besancon near Fort Wayne, Indiana, wrote Sister Rita Clare Gerardot in her commentary, which was given by Sister Ann Casper, for Sister Rita Clare Gerardot, who passed away on Monday, June 20, 2022, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Sister Rita...
Providence Cristo Rey High School: 10 years of changing lives in Indianapolis
...165 years before: to risk for the sake of Providence. The Cristo Rey model had been born in Chicago by the Jesuits. It offers students who could not otherwise afford a Catholic school education the opportunity for a quality education in a faith-based environment. Students study four days per week. On the fifth day they go to work in a variety of professional jobs. The model was unlike that of other Catholic schools. The model was so much in keeping...