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Sister Mary Tomlinson
My good friend says I’m dependable, low-maintenance, sensitive and a good traveling companion. My favorite thing about Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is the Church. I love watching the Sisters assemble for liturgy. It makes me remember that I am in good company and in a community where I am loved. The Church is also the place I made my decision to become a Sister of Providence. Three things that are sure to make me smile are my granddaughters, watching David Letterman and...
A Prayer for the 175th Anniversary of the Sisters of Providence
O Holy One, I pray in gratitude for Saint Mother Theodore and her companions who established a home at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. I am grateful for all those who followed in their footsteps and committed themselves to furthering Your designs. I pray for the grace to build on their legacy as so many have done throughout the world. May all who are rooted in the charism of Providence be faithful to the path marked out for this place and time. May...
Sister St. Vincent Ferrer Gagé : a founding Sister of Providence
...others. Yet, she persevered. She helped Mother Theodore open the new community’s first mission — a parish school in Jasper, Indiana — and served as its superior. Later, she was assigned to Vincennes, where she was during the troubling years where Mother Theodore was harassed by the (likely mentally unstable) Bishop de la Hailandière. She was a companion and loyal friend during those trials. An example to the end of the pious, fervent religious, the last stage of her apostolate...
A legacy of hospitality
Sisters of Providence offer forward hospitality shown their founding sisters in 1840 by the Thralls family in their home, shown here. One does not have to be around the Sisters of Providence long before hearing the “founding story” of the incredible hospitality of the Thralls family. They are the pioneer couple who took in Mother Theodore Guerin, her five sister companions and four women prospects when they arrived in 1840. Their promised convent-home was not yet ready. Local farmers Sarah...
ONE of several, but Indiana’s first
...letters and journals tell how he and his companions were led from village to village, how they were beaten, tortured and forced to watch as their Huron converts were mangled and killed. He eventually met his death as a martyr in 1646. Jean de Lalande died 1646; Lalande was also part of the same missionary group that Issac Jogues was. As a teenager, he ministered in upstate New York and Canada alongside Father Isaac Jogues. He was martyred on October...
Visiting the birth place of Mother Marie Gratia Luking
Several Missionary Sisters of Providence in Taiwan, in addition to Sister Jenny Howard (middle) at the burial site of the parents of Mother Marie Gratia Luking, the foundress of the Missionary Sisters of Providence in Taiwan. October has been quite a busy month for the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The month featured Saint Mother Theodore’s birthday (Oct. 2), Feast Day (Oct. 3), eighth anniversary of her canonization (Oct. 15), Foundation Day (Oct. 22) and the official opening of...
Life is changed … not ended
...has not seen and ear has not heard what God has ready for those who love Him.” When our loved ones die, because we are incapable of understanding, we turn to grief and contemplation. Our grieving is necessary. It is the natural healing companion to loss. We recall how that person lived and loved in God and how God lived and loved them and continues that life and love for all eternity. Our faith reminds us to have no anxiety...
Life lessons from Ebony
In February, my brother and sister-in-law, Steve and Becky, had to put down their beloved Chihuahua that had companioned them for 12 years. At the time, I wrote, “May we, like Ebony, leave this world a better place for our having been in it.” As I accompanied Steve and Becky in their grief and attended to some of my own, I’ve thought a lot about her legacy. What was it about her that infused so much joy into their lives...
A “Woodsie” reflects: Mari Bennett
...what I wanted to be when I “grew up”. Yet, this overwhelming sense of peace overcame me at the moment we arrived. I knew this was where I needed to be. Fast-forward a year. I was sitting in my Woods Core Honors class, hearing about Mother Theodore and her five companions’ first journey to the Woods. In previous months, I’d heard from other students about how that trek was “extremely difficult,” but those conversations hadn’t gone much further than that....
Holy Ground
O God, I kiss this holy ground This place of promises in process This place of people seeking God And of God seeking and saving a people A place of knowing one is hungry And of being fed This place of grumbling And of silence This space of solitude And of communal struggle This place of escape and encounter It is to this holy ground You have lured me Here I am Speak to my heart. Companion me All who...
Spirituality, justice, love of fresh food fuel Providence Associate’s sustainable lifestyle.
Providence Associate Janice Lilly, with her husband, Cary, deliver fresh, local food to Bloomington, Indiana, charities. Through the Healthy Food for All Fund she created, Janice helps provide healthy, fresh foods to low-income area residents. Living a sustainable lifestyle has been a key part of Providence Associate Janice Lilly’s life for 20 years. Janice was drawn to nature since childhood. Spirituality, social justice and love for fresh food were a part of her family heritage. Originally from Alabama, Janice and...
A Woodsie reflects: Shannon Sonderman
...our “mother”). We will always have her to talk to in a time of need. In my mind, I can’t imagine the amount of strength and devotion to God that Mother Theodore and her companions must have had when they began their mission. Such strong devotion, that they would leave their home in France and travel thousands of miles to a rural forest west of small Terre Haute, Indiana. She did this without checking Google to see what was in...