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Q and A: The new cosmology: a Providence perspective
...of new cosmology is not to abandon the past but to examine its riches in new light. A case in point is our relation to Christ. What does it mean in the light of our new consciousness? Seeing Christ as the center of an evolutionary universe brings a new understanding of Christ and of ourselves in relation to him. In the past, the human need for redemption guided the thought of classical theologians. They did not see the incarnation as...
Sister Emily TeKolste featured in Global Sisters Report
“Our community’s White Violet Center for Eco-Justice hosted a “Party in the Pasture,” where sisters, staff, friends and others who shared our campus joined the chickens and alpacas for sun and moon-themed snacks, good company and the eclipse. I ended up helping sisters make their way to the pasture, finding creative ways to load both sisters and their rollators onto golf carts and helping them to make their way safely to a seat in the pasture. Sister Emily TeKolste “And...
Sister Marie Ellen Sullivan
...said Sister Joan. “After 12 years as principal of Guerin, a year at Loyola University in Chicago equipped her with a master’s degree in pastoral studies and gave her the credentials that she needed for the next stop along the path of her life. For the next 15 years, she served the people of St. Constance Parish in Chicago as pastoral associate. This ministry became another way to also reach out to the sick and her care for them fulfilled...
Sister Margaret “Peggy” Lynch (formerly Sister James Patrick)
...Peggy served in youth ministry and extensively in parish ministry, as Pastoral Associate or Parish Life Coordinator. Serious health problems brought Peggy to the Motherhouse in 2010 where she ministered to her sisters in a variety of ways as she was able. She was very intelligent and an avid reader, loving to share what she learned with anyone who would listen. She was also a very creative writer, poet and prayer author. As her health declined, it was determined...
A beacon of hope
...and a master’s degree in pastoral theology from SMWC. She is certified to work as a chaplain. Her HCC chaplain duties involve pastoral ministry to patients and hospital visits, too. She has done memorial, funeral and graveside services, but has celebrated with many cancer patients who have had a good outcome following treatment. She also does a great deal to help patients’ family members and loved ones. “I get attached,” Sister Betty says. Those she comes into contact with get...
Ashes from the pandemic fire: a reflection for Ash Wednesday 2021
...Traditionally Ash Wednesday invites us to ponder the fact of death. Well, these past months have certainly forced us to see the fragility of life in a whole new way. I daresay every one of us has lost an acquaintance, a friend, a family or community member. So here we are today with no ashes for our foreheads. Yet it does feel like we are holding a handful of ashes from this past year. We are holding what is left...
Celebrating our Volunteers!
...making phone calls for the Congregation’s annual Phonathon for the past several years,” Stacy added. “This year was a little bit different because I didn’t get to gather with the sisters at Providence Hall and make the calls. I missed being with many of the sisters this past year.” (Editor’s Note: Stacy and Penny are Superstar Callers!) Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Stacy and Penny also helped each year during the White Violet Center Earth Day festival, as well as...
To Mother Theodore and companions
...a litany chanted down the years. Theodore, St. Vincent Ferrer, Basilide, Marie Xavier, St. Ligouri, Olympiade, with St. Francis Xavier scurrying after you another year. Daughters of your founding in that Woods we too call home, we round the season’s corner to another Autumn. The leaves turn gold in honor of your coming. Like new psalms chanted with the old we celebrate our anniversary Eucharist with you, Ladies of the past. You look on us amazed, as women will at...
Sister Jane Marie Osterholt
...ministered at St. John, Loogootee. “At one point when Sister Jane Marie needed a change, she took a year for Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). After the year she told me that she could never thank the Congregation enough for this opportunity, for it changed her life. There are such moments, if we are faithful to God’s inner voice, when everything falls into place and we are transformed to a deeper level in God’s love. Clinical Pastoral Education was one of...
Foundation Day gems from the past
...being Foundation Day, a research adventure through the Congregation early diaries uncovered some little gems on Oct. 22 in years past. Here are some examples from Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s diary: 1841 – Anniversary of our arrival at Saint Mary’s. They commence to show our wheat. 1847 – Mother Theodore falls sick. Our Father Corbe starts away. S. M. Joseph arrives at Vincennes. 1849 – Our old woman falls sick. (The “old woman” was French immigrant Grosse Marie She arrived...
The Joy of Vatican II
...John Courtney Murray, S.J., and Hans Küng. O’Malley points out that it was Buber in “I and Thou” who articulated what many felt but didn’t have words for: the systems of Aristotle and Aquinas “had an abstract character that removed individuals from real-life situations where they faced choices.” The grey areas that S. Pat Farrell, OSF, past president of LCWR, spoke of this past summer. Vatican II is so much more than a meeting 50 years ago. It was a...
Faces of our future: a new generation of Sisters of Providence
...up to currently! Sister Corbin Hannah Sister Corbin Hannah, you may recall, was the lead story in the summer 2019 HOPE magazine. Sister Corbin is director of Outreach Ministry at the YMCA Safe Place Services day shelter in Louisville, Kentucky. Here she is able to make some amazing connections with homeless young adults. This past February Sister Corbin requested and was approved to begin her Tertian Year in preparation for professing her perpetual vows in the summer of 2020. Tertainship...