Search Results for label/Providence Associates Advisory Board
Getting too many results? To search for an exact phrase, try putting multiple word phrases in quotation marks (such as "Saint Mother Theodore") to narrow your results.
Organizations find something to believe in at Providence Family Services
To know Providence Family Services (PFS) is to believe in the work it does; or so seem to attest two recent grants awarded the not-for-profit charity. From its beginnings in 1993 with two bi-lingual counselors, Providence Family Services, located at 1540 N. Monticello Ave. in Chicago, has grown to also include English-as-a-Second-Language classes, after-school homework help, computer classes, parenting classes and citizenship classes. A sponsored ministry of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind., PFS serves the largely Spanish-speaking...
Sister Jacquelyn Hoffman
...and Dad sent me to Ladywood, a Sister of Providence boarding school in Indianapolis. I always teased that I was sent away to help make me behave. Perhaps it was really Providence. I want to think so. What a gentle, persistent and loving God! – Sister Jackie It was during my senior year that I felt God tugging at me. Each time I returned from a weekend with friends and my boyfriend in Fort Wayne, I would get this very...
‘Nuns of the Battlefield’
First published in 1927, “Nuns of the Battlefield” was written by Ellen Ryan Jolly. In this book, the author gives a description of the women religious congregations that provided medical aid during the Civil War. Many of these religious congregations actually provided nursing skills on the battlefield while others, like the Sisters of Providence, provided medical assistance in military hospitals and prisons. Below are a couple of entries in the chapter about the Sisters of Providence: First entry “Of course,...
Sister Mary Rosita Thewes
...Rosita served convents at Our Lady of Sorrows, Chicago; Marywood, Anaheim, Calif.; and Marywood, Evanston, Ill., from 1945 to 1949. “She fed, besides the sisters, numerous hungry young girls [at the boarding schools],” shared Sister Mary Roger. “In 1949, obedience returned her to the Woods where for the next 19 years she worked beside Sister Zita Kidwell (RIP) in Providence kitchen as well as in Lourdes Infirmary kitchen. In Lourdes, Sister Mary Rosita not only prepared and cooked the food,...
Spirituality of Acceptance: Accepting Diminishment, Illness and Loss
This article is reprinted from the fall 2011 issue of HOPE. “You just get up and go and keep living. … It’s the best thing to do!” “There’s only one way: take each day as it comes!” One might think I just finished walking through the corporate headquarters of Nike, but no, I was sauntering through Lourdes Hall, our assisted living area at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Providence. After visiting four sisters and asking them how they cope...
A pleasant sounding instrument
...embarrassed to ask the students ‘how to’ when it comes to computer applications. They teach me much. My favorite line, which one senior just quoted to me recently, is that I always say, ‘I teach theology, not technology,’” continued Sister Kay, who celebrated her golden jubilee in 2008. Sister Kay may not teach technology, but she has certainly become very savvy using it. Her chalkboard has given way to PowerPoint presentations; scanned charts, graphs and documents; and the use of...
Opening new doors
This article is reprinted from the summer 2011 issue of HOPE. Sister Maureen Fallon (right) uses SMART Board technology to engage her students in working out calculus problems. While the Sisters of Providence have a goal of “breaking boundaries, creating hope” in their work, it’s not often this gets to happen by opening a new school. But that’s what happened in 2007 when the Congregation sponsored Providence Cristo Rey High School in Indianapolis. Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp, along with other Sisters...
A gadget-happy Sister
...books, the syllabus and the assignments, and say, ‘Now, go home and do this.’ What we are coming down to now is understanding that teaching and learning must be more interactive.” Come August and the new academic year, all SMWC classes will be available online. WED students, as well as Woods On Line students, and traditional resident students, will have access to everything at their fingertips, including peer discussion boards, contact with teachers and advisors, content that includes everything from...
The Le Fer sisters: Gifts to the Congregation
This article is reprinted from winter 2008 issue of HOPE. By Brother Barry Donaghue, cfc One of the loveliest of the early “her-stories” of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is that of the Le Fer sisters, Irma and Elvire, who, like their own Mother Theodore, gave themselves without reservation into the arms of Divine Providence. Like Abram they “went, trusting in God” (Genesis 12:4); like Mary they prayed, “May it be done to me according to your word.”...
‘The little Indian of the northern Lakes’
...Mary Cecilia had held a variety of leadership positions in the Congregation prior to Mother Theodore’s death. She served as general superior until 1868, leading the Congregation through the difficult years of the Civil War. Providence Associate Paul Beel (who is also a systems analyst for the Congregation’s IT Department) is an admirer of Mother Mary Cecilia and has spent numerous hours in Archives researching this early leader of the Congregation. The Sisters of Providence web editorial board is pleased...
Letter from a saint: to Rev. J. Bouvier
...so poor in every respect, strangers to the country, the customs, and the language of the New World — you never expected to see the fruits of your zeal crowned with so much success. Today we are eighty persons in our Community, sixty-four, including twelve novices, wearing the religious habit, and sixteen postulants. There are nearly a thousand children in our schools, eighty-five boarders here at the Academy, thirty-seven of whom are Catholics.” (“Journals and Letter,” pp. 375-376) To learn...
General Superior summons foundress to support new SMWC president
Sister Denise Wilkinson, general superior of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, offered the following comments during the announcement of a new president for Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Dr. Dottie King. Dr. King had served as interim president for about eight months. Sister Denise’s comments: “The General Council of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods unanimously approved the Board of Trustees’ recommendation to appoint Dr. Dottie King as the next president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Dr. King has consistently...