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Justice on the margins: Providence Associate Maria Price
This mural by artist Mary Cobb hangs over the welcome desk at the men’s homeless shelter in Louisville, Kentucky, where Providence Associate Maria Price serves as executive director. Did you know that Providence Associate and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College alum Maria Price helps run a homeless shelter in Louisville, Kentucky? Currently, Maria serves as executive director of the St. John Center for Homeless Men. She began volunteering at the shelter in 1995 and joined the staff in 2006. “It is truly...
Baking with Sister Ann Kevin O’Connor
It’s 9 o’clock on a Monday morning in August when Sister Tracey Horan, a Sister of Providence novice for three weeks, has already measured most of the ingredients for the bran muffins she is about to make with Sister Ann Kevin O’Connor, a Sister of Providence for 71 years. Sister of Providence of 71 years Sister Ann Kevin O’Connor helps Novice Sister Tracey Horan improve her baking skills. The novice rolls Sister Ann Kevin into the kitchen in her wheelchair...
Sister Joni becomes who God created her to be as a Sister of Providence
...I had everything and still, something was missing.” Sister Joni said at that point, she turned to exploring spirituality through different churches. A friend then suggested she come to a Catholic Church and she did. At the time, she wasn’t a practicing Catholic, but while at the church in her native state of Texas, she saw a flier that had been posted by Sister of Providence Sister Barbara Bluntzer. The flier offered people with little knowledge of Catholicism to learn...
2015 Providence Food Pantry update
...clients. The Annual Walk – sponsored by St. Mary’s Village Church – and the Annual Basket Raffle, sponsored by Providence Food Pantry Board members, contribute so much to the overall expenses for food. The pantry also conducts rummage sales often to help pay for utilities. Sister Joseph Fillenwarth Providence Food Pantry is located at 707 W. National Ave., West Terre Haute. It is open from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., every Thursday. Sponsors of the pantry include The Helping Hands,...
Sister Marilyn Rose Ginder
...Margaret Quinlan in her commentary for Sister Marilyn Rose Ginder, who died Sunday, Feb. 21. Shew was 86 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 67 years. Sister Marilyn Rose was born Sept. 25, 1929, in Montgomery, Indiana, to Paul and Helena Doyle Ginder. She was baptized Margaret Mary, also known as Margie. She had one sister, Marilyn, also known as “the real Marilyn.” She is with us today. Our Sister Marilyn Rose attended St. John Elementary...
Celebrating National Poetry Month!
...and social justice. I consider this a special grace in my life and it has become an integral part of my prayer and my ministry. I now invite you to enjoy “Spring Symphony,” a poem by Sister Rose Michele Boudreau (RIP) that expresses so well one of the frequent rites of April springtime. SPRING SYMPHONY a raindrop strikes an open leaf and it quivers with delight. another! another! GOD plays on the leafy keyboard with swollen drops of rain providing...
Giving thanks to the ash trees on Arbor Day
...forest reserves of Portugal for more than 1,000 years. Perhaps it says it all: “I am the heart of your hearth on the cold winter nights; the friendly shade which screens you from the summer sun; and my fruits quench your thirsts as you journey on. I am the beam which supports your house, the board of your table, the bed on which you sleep, and the timber which builds your boat. I am the handle of your hoe, the...
Sisters of Providence honor Dr. Dottie King
On hand as the Sisters of Providence proclaimed Dr. Dottie King a “Wise Woman of the Woods,” were (from left) General Council members Sisters Jenny Howard, Lisa Stallings (Vicar), Mary Beth Klingel, General Superior Sister Denise Wilkinson, Dr. King, General Council member Sister Dawn Tomaszewski and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Board of Trustees Chair Randy Adams. In recognition of her recently receiving Indiana’s Sagamore of the Wabash award, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods General Council honored Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College...
Throwback Thursday: Looking back on a Beatification
...John Paul II granted the title of “Blessed,” to Mother Theodore. Mother Theodore Guerin was declared a saint in St. Peter’s Square in Rome on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006. Sister Catherine was a Sister of Providence for 76 years. She taught for nearly 30 years before becoming a spiritual advisor. She was also a well-known baker. Sister Thomasine was a Sister of Providence for 68 years. She ministered as a teacher and also volunteered in the Providence Co-op. #throwbackthursday #tbt...
Sisters share memories of the ‘Greatest Spectacle in Racing’
This is a photograph of Sister Marianne Mader (back, right) with her family taken in the early 1990s at the Indianapolis 500 Museum. With Sister Marianne are her mother Frances Ley Mader, her nieces Jenny – who is a Providence Associate – and Abby, and (back, left) her now-deceased sister Jeanette. In 2015, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods celebrated their 175th anniversary as a Congregation. As the sisters advance into year 176, other organizations are celebrating milestones in...
Sister Marilyn Therese Lipps
...and had been a Sister of Providence for 68 years. Sister Marilyn Therese entered the Congregation on July 16, 1948, and professed final vows on Jan. 23, 1956. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and masters’ degrees in special education from Indiana University and in theology from Seattle University. In her 68 years as a Sister of Providence, she ministered for 25 years in schools in Indiana, Illinois and North Carolina. She was teacher and principal at...
Farm Store opening this spring
...from downtown Terre Haute. It will be on the east side of the building with parking right at the door. “The entrance is soon to have a new door with an awning and a chalkboard telling customers what is available inside,” Lorrie said. Lorrie said after the success of the “flash sales,” White Violet Center associates began researching farm-based stores in order to prepare a proposal for the Sisters of Providence General Council. “They approved our proposal in August 2016,”...