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Alpaca Yoga
April 12, 2025 at 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT White Violet Farm Alpacas barn Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 White Violet Center for Eco-Justice 812-535-2930 View Facilitator Website Sisters of Providence Free Join us for yoga in the pasture with our alpacas and Shannon Hamilton, Athletic Director at SMWC and certified Yoga Instructor at Common Ground in Terre Haute. This event is part of our collaboration with the Department of Sustainability at Indiana State University to celebrate the Earth (throughout)...
Breathe in the Woods
...I am led to the following questions: How do spring and well-being collaborate? How do the seasons effect healing for the body, mind, and spirit? A sure sign of spring are pastel colors. Many pastel colors filled the lawn at Providence Health Care on Tuesday, April 16, when staff were treated to a surprise Easter egg hunt! Residents watched and cheered on their favorite nurse or CNA while staff scurried along to find those prized eggs. For many residents and...
Graduation Day!
...Arrianne Whittaker’s graduation celebration. At the party for Arrianne afterwards, Sister Patty Wallace snatched Arrianne’s graduation tam and wanted her picture taken with it on. As one of her housemates during these years of intense study (Sister Susan Dinnin is the other), Patty wanted a little credit for having survived medical school! A similar kind of celebration took place just this past weekend as Sisters Phung Nguyen Hien Tran and Huong Mai, Dominican Sisters of Tam Hiep, Vietnam, both graduated...
Reflections for the Silver Jubilee of Sister Evelyn Ovalles
...an appropriate cultural greeting for Evelyn. Sister Evelyn Ovalles Come alive! What more beautiful way to mark the passing of 25 years than to tell you to COME ALIVE, Evelyn. Come alive to what our Provident God has done for you and in you these past 25 years and what the Holy One still has in store for you. This seems especially appropriate when the readings for this 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time seem to me to challenge all of...
Letter to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York
...warns of “unprecedented destruction of ecosystems, with serious consequence for all of us” if prompt climate change mitigation efforts are not undertaken. This administration has also blatantly denied the sanctity of life for those on federal death row. The Sisters of Providence have a long tradition of speaking out against the death penalty. The Indiana Catholic Conference of Bishops is also quite clear and public in opposition to the death penalty. Just within this past year, this administration reinstated the...
New Providence Associates!
This past Saturday, Nov. 14, was a special day at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Twenty-six women and men became new Providence Associates of the Sisters of Providence. We’d love to share some of the joy of the day with you in this photo album. These women and men have been journeying with a companion, either a Sister of Providence or another associate, over the past year. Click here to hear some of them share their journey in their own words. The newest...
Becoming a Providence Associate
Welcome to our newest Providence Associates! Some of the 26 new Providence Associates who made their first commitments on Saturday share some of their experiences here. Each has spent the past year journeying with a Sister of Providence or Providence Associate companion as together they learn more about the Sisters of Providence, each other and themselves. See the photo album of their big day here. Providence Associate Kim Knoblock Kim Knoblock, Terre Haute, Indiana “For me, the process was like...
Prayer for suicide loss survivors
...shame, let me not judge myself harshly. When I have regrets, let me learn from my past and move on. When I feel some relief, help me feel grateful and not guilty. When I am lonely, help me to reach out and share my feelings with others. When I feel isolated and lost, find me. When procrastination paralyzes me, help me to do the next right thing one minute, one hour, and one day at a time. When I feel...
Leaning and leading like Saint Mother Theodore
“The leader looks reality in the face and communicates hope.” —attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte Shortly after beginning her leadership ministry, Sister Lisa Stallings, SP, stumbled onto this quote that she copied and slid under the glass on her desk. For the past five years, the current Sisters of Providence leadership team has looked reality in the face and communicated hope for the Providence community and the world. Sisters of Providence Dawn Tomaszewski, general superior, Lisa Stallings, vicar, and Jeanne Hagelskamp,...
Sister Corbin Hannah professes final vows
...at the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Sister Corbin says she found her place in the world with the Sisters of Providence. “I was looking for community living, where I could learn and grow with others who also desired to be of service,” Sister Corbin said. “I was also looking for guidance and accountability. I needed something different than what society or ‘the world’ was offering me.” Reflecting on the past decade, Sister Corbin said getting...
Reaching out to others
...the statement to myself that lay people are just as holy as sisters and priests. Reaching out to others has been an important place in my life. It’s where I feel at home. I’ve been a lifelong learner, starting as a student at St. Andrew School in Chicago. I then moved on to learner as a sister – as a teacher, principal, religious education consultant, associate pastor, director of the Sisters of Providence mission development and a number of administrative...
Sister Barbara Ann Zeller (formerly Sister Dorothy Jean)
...family unit together and help them become productive citizens. Dora was addicted to drugs for 30 years. Her life had no purpose, no direction. She was unemployed and haunted by her past. Dora’s daughter also was addicted to drugs. Dora became very concerned about her two grandchildren who were entering foster care. Today, Dora and her daughter are clean. Dora has custody of her two grandchildren. All four live together and are doing well. Dora also volunteers at Providence House....