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Learning from History: Taking Providence into the World
...they are taking U.S. history is so they can be informed citizens. Many of them as sophomores and juniors will be able to vote in three years, and we talk about how important it is,” said Sister Mary Ann. Having taught at Cathedral since 1980, Sister Mary Ann has seen a lot of changes – from students lugging backpacks bursting with thick textbooks to carrying an iPad and phone to class. Printing out syllabi, writing papers and taking paper tests...
A historical look at our Greenhouses
The first time I came to White Violet Center, I got lost. I thought I was following the directions from my printed-out emails (ah, the days before smart phones), but after marveling at the tree-lined avenue and the gorgeous old buildings, I realized I had taken the wrong exit and was at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. I slowly wound around the roads, hoping I was going in the right direction. Eventually, I rounded a corner near a handsome brick warehouse and...
From Backyard Gardening to Small-Scale Farming: What a Difference a Team Makes!
...little stir-crazy by that time, or had been dreaming of the possibility for so long, when we could finally dig into the soil in Nashville to get started on a garden in earnest, we really went for it. Over the winter of 2020-21, we enrolled in the local Master Gardeners’ course for some classroom learning and began removing sod and layering compostables like newsprint, dried leaves and other organic matter to begin decomposing in place and feeding the soil to...
Sisters of Providence celebrating Jubilees
...music teacher, St. Angela Parish, Chicago (1987-94), Pastoral Associate/Director of Religious Education, St. Angela Parish, Chicago (1994-2001), Pastoral Associate, St. Angela Parish, Chicago (2001-05), and Pastoral Ministry, greater Chicago area (2005-08). Sister Lucille Lechner is a native of Jasper. Currently, she ministers in residential services and as the assistant to the administrator of Providence Hall at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sister Lucille Lechner Sister Lucille, formerly Sister Mary Louis, entered the Congregation on Jan. 9, 1951, from St. Joseph Parish in Jasper....
Sisters of Providence celebrate 2023 Senior Jubilarians
...Holy Spirit, Schaumburg, Ill. (1979-86), Associate Pastor/Deanery II Ministry Commission, Church of the Holy Spirit, Schaumburg (1986-92), Deanery II Ministry Commission, Schaumburg (1992-93), Director, Office of Mission Development, Generalate Offices, Chicago (1993-96), Project Manager, Officer of Research and Planning, Archdiocese of Chicago Pastoral Center, Chicago (1996-98), Executive Assistant to Planning and Implementation Team in Department of Education, Archdiocese of Chicago Pastoral Center, Chicago (1999), Executive Assistant in Department of Education, Archdiocese of Chicago Pastoral Center, Chicago (1999-2000), Executive Assistant for...
A Reflection for the 2025 Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...best.” This is OUR Blueprint for Hope Let us make that our blueprint for hope. To take whatever anxiety we may have about all that is swirling around in our lives and in our world and do our best to transform it into Active Hope, into purpose and action for the life of our world. The world needs us for this. We need each other to make it happen. Our shared mission is the good of this world. So,...
Care of Earth in everyday life: Sisters Ellen Cunningham and Rosemary Nudd
...especially like it when the neighborhood fraternities have a service day and will take it for a donation to Red Cross,” Sister Ellen said. To save paper they print on both sides whenever possible, or print on scrap paper. “Rosemary is especially good at that,” Sister Ellen said. “When possible, we avoid printing entirely. I do a good bit of reading onscreen and insert comments into students’ work. As far back as the class of 2000, there was one computer-savvy...
Everything is Connected – Our Consumption
...also take responsibility for how they dispose of their waste. More fundamentally, we must find alternatives to GDP-based economic growth, which is the central driver of increasing consumption of goods and services. Let’s Take Action Do you feel caught up in a culture of compulsive consumerism? What changes could you make in your lifestyle to better care for others and creation? Every product and service has both an ecological footprint and a social footprint. By choosing our purchases carefully and...
Conscience, Candidates and Discipleship in Voting – Part two
...faces and corrodes each one in turn. The culture of exclusion has unleashed a poison of animosity against immigrants that paralyzes our politics so deeply that we cannot even find a pathway to protect young men and women who came to this nation as children and now thirst to be citizens of the only land they have ever known. The deadly imprint of racist structures and legacies on our criminal justice system magnifies fears and resentments among African American and...
Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...McAlester, Okla.: Southeast Pastoral Team (1976-78), Evansville, Ind.: Student Clinical Pastoral Education, Deacon Hospital (1978), Ypsilanti, Mich.: Student Clinical Pastoral Education, Ypsilanti Regional Psycho Hospital (1978), Ann Arbor, Mich.: Student Clinical Pastoral Education, Mott Children’s Hospital (1978-79), Lansing, Mich.: Student Clinical Pastoral Education, University of Michigan PSY Hospital (1979), Milan, Mich.: Student Clinical Pastoral Education, F.C.I. (1979), Terre Haute, Ind.: Pastoral Associate (Seelyville, Ind.)/Prison Minister, Federal Penitentiary (1979-81), Terre Haute, Ind.: Prison Ministry, Federal Penitentiary/Nursing Assistant, Infirmary (Saint Mary-of-the-Woods) (1981),...
Elizabeth Koressel
...Institute. Sister Betty ministered as a teacher at schools in Indiana and Illinois from 1968 to 1987. She taught at St. Mary’s in New Albany, Indiana, at Sacred Heart and St. Agnes, both in Evansville, and at St. Alexander in Palos Heights, Illinois. From 1990 to 1995, Sister Betty ministered as a pastoral associate at St. Vincent Parish in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and then ministered as a pastoral associate at Precious Blood Parish in Jasper, Indiana, from 1995 to 2016....
Carolyn Bouchard
...from the Christian Theology Seminary in Indianapolis and a Masters of Arts in Pastoral Theology from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Sister Carolyn has ministered in Indiana and Virginia. Sister Carolyn Bouchard All Ministries Evansville, Ind.: Youth Minister, Holy Redeemer Parish (1987-88) Indianapolis: Assistant Director/Resident Services, Simeon House (1988-89) Lawrence, Ind.: Pastoral Associate, St. Lawrence Parish (1989-96) Newport News, Va.: Director of Healing Ministries, Marriage Prep and Vocations, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church (2002-08) Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.: Re-accreditation Coordinator, Woods Day...