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2025 Reflection for Providence Associate Commitment Liturgy
Note: The following is the reflection that was authored by General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski for the 2025 Providence Associates rite of first commitment and renewal Mass and Ceremony, which took place on Saturday, October 11, 2025. The 2025 incoming Providence Associates were welcomed by the Providence Community during the Rite of Commitment and Renewal Mass and Ceremony on Saturday, October 11, 2025. New Associates include (front, from left) Jessena Goddard and Beth Purcell, (second row) Katherine Ryan, Molly Burke...
Providence is profound
...currently participating in a year of formation and discernment toward becoming a Providence Associate of the Sisters of Providence this fall. During this process, candidates meet regularly with a Sister of Providence or Providence Associate companion to explore more deeply the life, mission and spirituality of the Sisters of Providence. This reflection is part of Chuck’s letter of intent that he and all candidate-associates who wish to continue onward to becoming a Providence Associate submit leading up to first commitments....
Growing in depth: Providence Associate Joanna Dailey
Providence Associate Joanna Dailey’s relationship with the Sisters of Providence goes back to her youth. The Sisters of Providence were her teachers in grades 5-8 in Hammond, Ind. Joanna Dailey, at left, helps prepare the altar during her first commitment ceremony as a Providence Associate in 2012. She was so impressed with the Congregation that she entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Providence in 1965. Joanna left to pursue another path four years later, but she continued to stay...
Sister Marianne Mader (formerly Sister Ann Eugene)
...Hospital, Indianapolis (1978-85); Library Coordinator, Community Hospital, Indianapolis (1985-86); Staff Librarian and Research Analyst, Community Hospital and Hand Surgery Association of Indianapolis (1986-88); Reference Librarian, Community Hospital, Indianapolis (1988-93); Medical Information Assistant, Crossroads Rehabilitation Center, Indianapolis (1997-98); Instructional Assistant-Computers, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis (1998-2002); Librarian, Holy Angels School, Indianapolis (2002-06); Archive Researcher, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2006-16); Archives Coordinator, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2017-19); Archives Consultant, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2019). In Ohio: Patient Advocate, BIORX, Cincinnati (2010-17)....
Historic mural of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin unveiled
...Ind., which is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Saint Mother Theodore Guerin founded the Sisters of Providence at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1840. Today, Sisters of Providence minister in 13 states, the District of Columbia and Asia, through works of love, mercy and justice. More information about the Sisters of Providence and their ministries can be found at SistersofProvidence.org. Sisters of Providence on Facebook @spsmw on Twitter Sisters of Providence on Instagram Sisters of Providence YouTube channel...
Sister Denise Wilkinson: A Reflection
...associated church projects completed (2016); Other Noteworthy Events Providence Cristo Rey High School opens in Indianapolis (2007), Apostolic Visitation visitors at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2010); process concluded by Vatican (2015), Significantly increased programming at Providence Spirituality and Conference Center and White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (2011 ff.), Sponsored institutions/ministry assessment process; subsequent decisions (2012 ff.), Introduced livestream broadcasts of communication nights and wake services (2013), Invited Providence Associates to attend some sessions of the Sisters of Providence annual meetings and of...
‘Like Mary, you have given birth’
...The archetype of the prophet helps us to imagine the world as it might be and to consider how we can get from here to there. How many times have you mirrored justice, Jubilarians? In your work at such places as 8th Day Center for Justice, Feeding Empty Little Tummies, St. Ann’s Health Clinic? At the Hispanic Education Center, various branches of Catholic Charities? At Providence Self-Sufficiency Ministries, at Anna’s House, Project Light or Providence Food Pantry? How many times...
7 Reasons to give to the Sisters of Providence this Giving Tuesday
...all who need it. 5. Your donation supports our spirituality and eco-justice ministries You make the Sisters of Providence ministries at the Woods possible: Spirituality programs and retreats through Providence Spirituality and Conference Center. Our eco-justice ministry modeling care of creation in our White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. 6. You help us share Saint Mother Theodore Guerin with the world From the shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to sharing her story on her website and telling...
Mary Weber and Gary Meister: ‘a God of surprises’
...our call to be Providence in the world were new concepts. He was raised Lutheran in a strong anti-Catholic environment. Not that the concept of God as Providence is for Catholics only. For us as a couple, Providence spirituality is also marital spirituality. It is how we want to live out our vows together. The units were not just to be studied intellectually but were to be experienced. My favorite ancillary reading was the Practices of the Sisters of Providence....
Providence Associates: addressing the needs in our backyards
We asked Providence Associates from around the country to tell us about an issue in “their own backyard” that they are passionate about. Here several Providence Associates share about a need and how they are responding. They tell how their collaboration with the Sisters of Providence supports them in these efforts and offer advice to all of us in how we can help. Providence Associate Sandy Wickware, center, speaks with Sisters Jacquelyn Hoffman, left, and Rosemary Schmalz, right. Sandra Wickware...
Sisters of Providence welcome new postulants
On Saturday, Sept. 14, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, received two knocks on the door of Providence Hall as two women entered the Congregation. Postulant Ann Duong knocking on the front door of Providence Hall. Both Ann Duong, 43, and Maite Rodriguez-Mora, 48, knocked on the hallowed entrance door of the Motherhouse and were welcomed by General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski and other Sisters of Providence for the official ceremony. By entering, both Ann and Maite have...
Honor Divine Providence
...the perspective of the billions of years Providence has taken to bring us to life. How differently I now understand these words of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and the care Providence lavishes on us throughout the millennia: “[Providence] has protected us with so much love until the present day that I should consider it a crime to doubt his mercy now.” May I, may we continue to rely on God’s amazing Providence! For further reading, check out “Turning to One...