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April 12, 2026: Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy)
Gospel: John 20:19-31 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send...
2017 reflection for Foundation Day
...have so shaped our beloved community—Sisters St. Theodore, Basilide, St. Vincent Ferrer, Mary Liguori, Mary Xavier and Olympiade. What might the Holy Spirit reveal to us today about this well-worn and well-loved story so that we can see this foundation and perhaps our own role in its continuing refoundation in new lights? Mother Theodore’s “Journals and Letters” have provided us a powerful first-person account of that moment of foundation. But today, I have asked some other characters in that foundation...
Sister Nancy Nolan (formerly Sister Jean Paula)
...than 20 possible ideas for implementation, many of them ministry-related, many of which continue today. Following her term as general superior, Nancy actually took on what she named the most challenging ministry of her community life—the presidency of Mother Theodore Guerin High School. After painstaking efforts at collaboration between Holy Cross and Mother Guerin High Schools for the sake of sustaining Catholic education at 80th and Belmont, Holy Cross announced its closing. This led Francis Cardinal George to ask the...
Ann Brendan Burget
...as a teacher in Chicago and Indianapolis, including several years at Holy Cross School, where she helped organize a kindergarten. In 1987, Sister Ann Brendan began working on the opening of Woods Day Care. Initially, the day care was located in the basement of Hulman Hall. Eventually, a building was constructed for the day care and Sister Ann Brendan ministered as the director there until 2005. It was said that Woods Day Care was Sister Ann Brendan’s “heart and soul.”...
‘Be unafraid to follow in her footsteps’: a reflection on the Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
Note: The following is the reflection our General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, SP, offered during the 2023 Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Feast Day Mass, which took place on Tuesday, Oct. 3. When the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin was being created, our Architect Jack Kelly and Liturgical Designer Father Mark Joseph Costello told us it needed to be filled with symbols of Mother Theodore’s spirituality. So, yes, you’ll find crucifixes and statues of Mary and Joseph in her shrine,...
Oral History: Sister Carol Nolan
Note: This oral history, written by Providence Associate Debbie Griffey, coincides with Sister Carol’s birthday today. Happy Birthday, Sister Carol! “I didn’t want anything to do with it. I wanted to get married.” — Sister Carol Nolan, SP Sister Carol Nolan never intended to be a Sister of Providence of Saint Mary of-the-Woods. Carol already had one sister who was in the community and another who had decided in fourth grade she would join the Sisters of Providence when she...
Sister Patricia McIntyre (formerly Sister Elaine)
...Marie Gratia became Mother Marie Gratia when she founded our mission in China. “Above all my mother was a woman of deep faith. She attended Mass daily. On school days we rode the city bus to St. Mary’s Church, attended Mass, then Mother would see us to school. She would then walk to work. She was a bookkeeper in an insurance office. At the end of the day we all took the bus back home. “I believe it was her...
Hope and healing for Earth: Earth Day 2012
...the Earth Day Network website, we learn Earth Day went international in the 1990s and grew and grew as the millennium unfolded. This time, Earth Day went global, mobilizing 200 million people in 141 countries and lifting environmental issues onto the world stage. Earth Day 1990 gave a huge boost to recycling efforts worldwide and helped pave the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. It also prompted President Bill Clinton to award Senator Nelson...
The Philosophy of Fair Trade
...challenge facing the world” with poverty and economic justice following at 44 percent. However, with fair trade, everyone benefits. If you regularly shop at grocery stores, check out the produce aisles by looking for the fair trade label on items such as avocados, bananas, chocolate/cocoa, coffee, and tea. Fair trade is not limited to agricultural products. You should think about fair trade every time you shop. “Visibility of Fairtrade products has increased since 2021 for nearly all major product categories...
Witness
...execution was upon him. Will mailed his last words to me which, as Providence would have it, came the day after he was executed. At a press conference the morning of Sept. 24, when Christopher Vialva would be executed later that day, I spoke Williams’ last words. He quoted from his spiritual guides – Thomas Merton, Pema Chodron and others. From Kahil Gibran, in The Prophet, Will identified an essential truth: “But I say that even as the Holy and...
Sister Margaret Heese (formerly Sister Margaret Bernard)
...look to you to keep us on the path Providence chose for you and for us. We count on you to double our joy and to divide our trouble sin half. We continue to rejoice that we knew your name. Margaret Florine Heese, faithful follower of Jesus. Funeral services for Sister Margaret took place on Wednesday, July 26, and Thursday, July 27, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. A Wake took place from 2:30-4:30 p.m.,...