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Welcoming the Spring Equinox
...plans and so many other plans in 2020. One of the resources I use for daily prayer is the Celtic devotional by Caitlin Mathews. It is an older book no longer in print. What I like about it is it has a morning and evening prayer for every day of the week and also the prayers changes seasonally. It follows the Celtic calendar where winter includes the months of November December and January. Spring is February March and April. This...
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Sheila Donis!
...the Congregation, Providence brought her back to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 2009 when she became a Providence Associate. Since then, she has volunteered her time with the Congregation in various artistic capacities, including card-making and the creation of memory books. Memory books include photos and remembrances of a person’s family, including past and present dialogue with the photos. “It feels good to be kind and helpful,” Sheila said. “We have fun and I’m fulfilling a need for the Sisters and others....
A Reflection for the 2022 Senior Jubilee
...to the fact that this psalm is printed on a throw she received from a friend sometime during her 33-year ministry in New Albany and which she uses as a spread on her bed even now. It has been a constant remembrance, she said, that “God maketh me lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul.” Sister Rose Virginia Eichman. She said it also reminded her of her commitment to attend the...
Stepping forward to become a Sister of Providence
The past couple weeks I was in Southern California for my home visit to spend quality time with family and friends. The trending question people asked me: “What have the past months been like?” Along with follow up questions: “When are you going back to Indiana?” and “Are you going to move forward to the next step?” Postulant Jessica Vitente puts her business and accounting background to good use in her volunteer ministry at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center. While...
New Providence Associates share their journey, part 2
In today’s blog post, several of our newest Providence Associates share about their journey of the past year. Learn more about becoming a Providence Associate here. Sister Mary Beth Klingel with Providence Associate Bettie Anne Long of West Terre Haute, Indiana Betty Anne Long The Providence Associate experience over the past year has been a gift from our Provident God, the Sisters of Providence and the Providence Associates. Along with my companion, Sister Mary Beth Klingel, and many loving, caring,...
Four Sisters of Providence celebrate their 50th anniversary
...Hospital (1975). Detroit: clinical pastoral education staff, Mt. Carmel-Mercy Hospital (1976 and 1977). Lincoln Park, Mich.: clinical pastoral education staff, Outer Drive Hospital (1976). Ypsilanti, Mich.: clinical pastoral education staff, Ypsilanti State Hospital (1977). River Grove, Ill.: Director of religious education, St. Cyprian Parish (1977-1987). River Forest, Ill.: Director of religious education, St. Luke Parish (1987-1991). Joliet, Ill.: leadership formation consultant, Diocese of Joliet (1991-1996). Kankakee, Ill.: director of Lisieux Pastoral Center, and cathecism consultant (1996-2005); consultant author, Brown/ROA (1996-1997);...
Sister Kathleen Bernadette Smith: Joyful collaboration in a prophetic mission
Sister Kathleen Bernadette Smith, center, serves as godmother at the baptism of this infant several years ago at St. Felicitas Parish in Chicago. Sister Kathleen has served as pastoral associate there for nearly 20 years. Sister Kathleen Bernadette Smith has ministered almost 20 years as a pastoral associate at St. Felicitas Parish in Chicago. She collaborates with parish staff, parishioners, local community leaders, archdiocesan and SP-led teams and committees to proclaim the Gospel in a joyful, prophetic way richly textured...
Let us be the people Jesus describes, as he sends his disciples out on Mission
...change and pain in my life over the past couple of years. One thing that became clear as I was going into the retreat, something that I sat with while I was there, was the realization that I’d been equating my vision for the future with my need to keep dredging up the pain I’d experienced. Now that I’m beginning the process of freeing my vision for the future from the anchor of the past, I offer only this: We...
Immaculata Alumna Produces “Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.”
Did you know the new movie Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin, which debuts this weekend, was produced by an alum of the Sisters of Providence? The film’s producer, Camille Kampouris, graduated from Sisters of Providence Immaculata Preparatory School in Washington, D.C. In her lifetime, Camille has appeared in various stage and broadcast productions, from improvisational comedy to advertising voiceovers. She was also one of Jim Henson’s Muppeteers for 12 years and worked on Sesame Street for 10 seasons. Her most recent...
Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2012-14)’ Residential Service/Driver, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2014); Volunteer, Wabash Valley Health Center, Terre Haute (2014); Driver/Providence Spirituality & Conference Center switchboard/Residential Services, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2015-2020); Residential Services, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2020-21); Prayer, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2021-present). In Illinois: Teacher, St. Leo, Chicago (1959-62); Secretary, Ministry Resource Center, Inc., Chicago (1981-82); Programmer/Bookkeeper, Ministry Resource Center, Inc., Chicago (1982-87); Pastoral Associate, Queen of Apostles Parish, Riverdale (1987-98); Pastoral Associate, Assumption Parish,...
Reflections on 50 years
...this continues in my current ministries of retreats, spiritual direction, and most recently, as the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice Internship Program Coordinator. I have to say I have enjoyed all my varied ministries – teaching first grade in Indianapolis and Sellersburg in the 1970s, pastoral ministry, Burkesville and Albany, Kentucky, youth ministry in Meade County, Kentucky, pastoral and campus ministry in Bloomington, Indiana, leadership in St. Gabriel Province, director of Providence Volunteer Ministry, working in city hall, and the...
Meet the Providence Associate Director
...don’t speak back or at least I can’t understand them) I love my children and grandchildren. I try to spend as much time with them as I can especially since they live in Colorado. Degrees/background: certified expanded duties dental assistant, bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Informatics in Media Arts and Science, master’s in Pastoral Theology Get in touch Use the form here to email director Debbie Dillow. Or you can contact her directly at 317‑250‑3294. Fill out my online form....