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A glimpse at past Christmases and winter days
Students in grades five through eight sing Christmas songs at Dunblane School, Washington, D.C., circa 1965. Students at Ladywood School, Indianapolis, enjoy a festive meal in this 1945 photo. Students at Ladywood School, Indianapolis, participate in a cantata in 1945. Ladywood, Indianapolis, students share some fun with Santa Claus in this 1945 photo. Angelic voices are uplifted in this 1944 photo at Ladywood School, Indianapolis. Ladywood, Indianapolis, students celebrate Christmas in this 1946 photo. Students pull sleds up a hill...
Sister Delan Ma
...chatted a little bit. They got to know each other. We talked more. Then we went home. It was a long travel. We didn’t have a train yet. It took us 10 hours on bad roads. We just felt like that’s the place. We came back and talked to the pastor. The pastor was French, an older priest. He didn’t know how to write Chinese. He told my father what to say and my father wrote the letter, and the...
Election and inauguration reflections
...vote. Fortunately, the US Embassy was helpful in providing information to make voting easier. … During the past few weeks, even now, I hear snatches of conversation that I don’t understand only to hear the word “Obama”. Ugandans, and many Africans, are truly excited about having an African American in the White House. It’s not just that Obama is African American, it’s that his father was Kenyan. Kenya neighbors Uganda, so in many ways it feels like Obama belongs to...
PFS volunteer brings love for justice, education to her work
...doing it day in and day out, despite multiple hip replacements and an age far past most peoples’ retirement. She continues to give of herself to educate young people as a foothold out of poverty. She contributes part of her awareness and drive to having lived in other-cultural, minority neighborhoods since 1969, and to being part of a vibrant Congregation of women religious at a wonderful time, right after the Second Vatican Council. In her current ministry with PFS, Sister...
Dynamic Providence in the Desert founder celebrates 60 years as a religious Sister
...English language. Enter a tiny, dynamic, retired Catholic sister from the Midwest bringing with her a drive for justice and a background in education, and Providence in the Desert was born. For the past nine years, Sister Carol Nolan, SP, a Sister of Providence from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. has been traveling around to several of the more than 300 isolated trailer parks in the valley. She finds a group interested in learning English and then packs up her teaching supplies...
Sister Marsha Speth
...not joined the Sisters of Providence. However, it stretched and gifted me in ways for which I am forever grateful. Teaching allowed me to use the summers for exploration of other ministries and eventually to complete a master’s degree in religious education. My desire to work with adults in a faith based ministry was realized when I began my first experience of full-time pastoral work. Though it was filled with new challenges, I loved being a pastoral, Providence presence when...
Side by side: our time of need is now
...words of the first verse jumped into my head as I started to write this article: We ain’t got a barrel of money. Maybe we’re ragged and funny. But we’ll travel along — singin’ our song — side by side. Together in spirit Traveling side by side has been a gift these past months as all of us and you confronted the overwhelming challenges of the Coronavirus. No doubt, some of us lost loved ones to the disease. Others endured...
Sister Joann Quinkert
...as a pastoral associate, hospital chaplain, outreach worker, adult education teacher; in rural pastoral ministry, social ministry and in volunteer service as librarian at Will County Adult Detention Center near Chicago. Favorites food: home cookin’ flower: mountain laurel recreation: hiking in mountain forests animal: deer quote: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King holiday: Thanksgiving heroine: Rosa Parks saints: my parents pizza topping: veggie scripture: “This is what Yahweh asks of you: only this, to act...
Can you hear me now?
You might remember the famous commercial where someone asks repeatedly, “Can you hear me now?” as they tried to connect with someone using their cell phone. Technology, whether we embrace it or not, is here to stay. The past year has forced the Sisters of Providence to rethink the way we connect with people. And despite some of the struggles, we found that we really enjoyed connecting with people virtually. Welcoming someone from across the country who would never have...
Sister Angela Rose Halpin
...a great influence on me. You taught me not only how to be a good teacher, but how to be loving in the classroom. Thank you so much,’” read Sister Ann. “After her service in schools, Sister Angela Rose volunteered her services in pastoral ministry. She received certification from the Department of Pastoral Care at Mercy Hospital. Her supervisor said, ‘She brought sympathy to the sick and in addition her gifts of sincerity, discernment and a sense of humor,’” continued...