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A Reflection for the 2025 Silver and Golden Jubilee
...the seashore with Jesus instead of Peter that Gospel morning. The church might never have been founded. Obviously, I did join the convent – no doubt because of the love of a Provident God that manifested itself around the dinner table and others like it day after day, year after year. I believe that’s what we really celebrate today as jubilarians – God’s faithfulness to us these past 70-plus years of each of our lives. God’s faithfulness to us has...
Sister Mary Patricia Cummings (formerly Sister Marie Janice)
...pastoral ministry at Saint Augustine in Jeffersonville, Indiana. While there, she earned two Clinical Care Units and also organized an interdenominational Bible School, worked with Senior Citizen groups, and established a quilt making group. As Director of Religious Education, she began the certification of all CCD teachers, the RCIA program, and a children’s choir. In her free time, she developed a unique Parenting Baptism Preparation Program. In 1987, after eight years at Saint Augustine’s, she went on to serve as...
Get to know Sister Mary Mundy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfr3yjiDoQg “I love being a Sister of Providence. It means being happy when I put my feet to the ground every morning.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma_Iyf8kRVE On ministry as a pastoral associate: “My day is very, very much engaged with people.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hFV36yTUv8 “I feel like I have found a lot more than I was seeking.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VjyPh6K7V0 On prayer: “I don’t know that I could make it through my day, in truth, if I didn’t have that time of serious grounding every morning,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGUVRA9j1A8&t=3s...
Updates from the Sisters of Providence summer 2018
New Providence Associate co-directors Providence Associate Co-Directors Sister Sue Paweski and Debbie Dillow The Providence Associate relationship has new leadership. Former Director Sister Diane Mason, SP, retired at the end 2017 after ministering 10 years with Providence Associates. New co-directors have been named to lead the ministry forward. The first is a familiar face. Providence Associate Debbie Dillow has stepped into the new role of co-director after serving as assistant director for the past six years. Sister Susan Paweski, SP,...
Sister Sharon Sullivan (formerly Sister Barbara Mary)
...years,” Sister Ann said. After 34 years in education, Sister Sharon was asked to assist at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in the Central Business Office, where she remained for five years. She then took gerontology and theology classes at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and began a series of ministries in service to the motherhouse and health-care communities. These included pastoral care where she ministered closely with and became good friends of Sister Mary Eleanor Galvin, who, interestingly enough, died a few hours after...
Sister Lawrence: a courageous caregiver in an epidemic past
Image of cholera bacteria During the terrible cholera epidemics that swept through Indiana in 1849 and 1854, many Sisters of Providence risked their own health in caring for the victims of what was, at the time, a lethal and mysterious illness. When cholera struck Fort Wayne in 1849, the pastor of Saint Augustine, Father Benoit, offered the school building as a temporary hospital and the service of the sisters as nurses. They cared for the sick all during the summer....
Sister Rosalie Cullen, formerly Sister James Clare
...Clare, Rosalie taught second grade at St. Anthony in Gardena, California, and then first and second grades at St. Sylvester in Chicago and Annunciation in Brazil, Indiana, before returning to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to minister as a member of the Infirmary Staff. She later taught in Indiana at St. Susanna in Plainfield and St. Patrick and St. Margaret Mary in Terre Haute. In 1977, Sister Rosalie again returned as an aide in the Infirmary. Pastoral Care then became her last ministry,...
A shared Reflection for Foundation Day
...past. That we will not survive if we do not pass down the wisdom of previous generations. For 176 years, Sisters of Providence, our friends, our ministry partners, and, more recently, our Associates, have been remembering the arrival of six courageous women who trusted that God would give them a future full of hope. Bellah also says that being a community or memory, while tying us to the past, also turns us toward the future as communities of hope. To...
Congregation shares LCWR statement on action to prevent gun violence
...those lost to gun violence in Laguna Park, Buffalo, Parkland, Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs, Orlando, San Bernardino, Charleston, Newtown, Columbine, and in countless other cities and towns across this nation. We mourn the senseless killing made easy by the proliferation of guns and the pervasive culture of violence which plague our communities. While there is much to grieve, we know that mourning is not enough. Prayers and condolences, as important as they are, are not enough. It is well past...
Welcome our new Coordinator of Volunteer Services!
...born in Montana, but her family moved to Terre Haute when she was a toddler. She graduated from Terre Haute South High School and attended college in New York, receiving an Associate’s Degree in baking and pastry arts as well as a Bachelor’s degree in professional studies, baking and pastry arts management. Following her stint in college, she worked in Terre Haute for two years in the baking industry but felt her heart tugging her toward working with non-profit organizations....
Oral history: Sister Cathy Campbell the storyteller
...communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a master’s in pastoral studies degree from Loyola University/Chicago and a Doctor of Ministry Degree from Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Sister Cathy in 1982 ministering for Chicago Catholic Television In addition to being a secondary school teacher, Sister Cathy in her years of ministry produced programs for Catholic Television Network in Chicago, edited the Catholic New World archdiocesan Catholic Newspaper for Chicago — (now known as Chicago Catholic), served the...
Sister Alma Louise Mescher
...day they taught children, then registered voters in the afternoon and then taught adults to read in the evening. It was a life-altering experience for her, she said,” continued Sister Jeanne. From 1982 to 1990, Sister Alma Louise served as a pastoral associate at the Parish of Our Divine Savior, Chico, Calif. She also ministered as a pastoral associate at St. Charles Borromeo Parish, Charleston, Ill. Considered “retired” in 1991, Sister Alma Louise continued to teach at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College...