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Gifts to Foley Legacy Fund support the underserved, SP mission
...the higher education of sisters. The Academy became Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and the first group of American sisters was sent to establish a mission in China. Caring for each other Staff members of Providence Cristo Rey School in Indianapolis, Amanda Murphy, theology teacher, left, and Erica Terry, school social worker, right, help run the school’s food pantry. Providence Cristo Rey is a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of Providence and the Foley Legacy Fund helps provide for Erica’s salary as...
Sister Theresa Rose Butts
...Md. Her Indiana classrooms included St. Patrick and St. Benedict, Terre Haute, and St. Jude, Fort Wayne. After more than five decades of teaching, Sister Theresa Rose returned to the Woods and volunteered in Residential Services. “Sister Theresa Rose was extremely intelligent. Sister Ann Marita Wynne, who was a classmate, says that she won many honors. Her Scrabble™ partners, Sister Marie Esther Sivertsen and Sister Mary Joanita Walsh (RIP) could attest to that fact. Accomplished daily without neglect was reading...
Sister Ann Michele Kiefer
...Sister Ann Michele also became a friend, comforter and support for mothers, fathers and life partners of these persons. Day by day when convenient and inconvenient, she quietly became the mid-wife of the broken spirits of those she served by teaching them to let God transform their powerlessness into self-possession, possibility and peace. She was Providence in their lives. The relationships she formed there have endured through the years. These dear friends have remained faithful with phone calls, cards and...
Caring for God’s gifts: the natural environment and faith
...also in many other cultures, thus uniting nature and faith in Holy Being. Our world holds many things in common. One of these is nature’s gift of seasonal weather, unique in each part of the world. Another is the celebration of the many religious and cultural traditions that marks the seasonal memories. Weather and religious values may seem strange partners, but reflection on the two common realities of our weather patterns and faith commitments come to mind. For example, in...
Conserving and digitizing a saint’s journal
...that the journal pages have been digitized into individual .tif files. Additionally, the six signatures (referring to the binding of the material) of the journal have been saved as .pdf files. Those files are now available below in a low-resolution version. The files are also available on the Wabash Valley Visions & Voices Web site, where the Sisters of Providence are partners. According to the July/August 2008 issue of the Indiana Historical Society’s publication, INPerspective, “After receiving permission to separate...
Sister Paula Damiano
...one thing you liked best about being a kid. Being able to go to silly movies, and being carefree about life living next door to my grandparents and aunts. What would you like to hear God say when you arrive in heaven? The line that comes to me is from the song of songs: “Come now, my lovely one, come.” Q: Why did you choose to become a Sister of Providence? A: I had wanted to be a sister since...
A remarkable woman
...hands of Providence. … Mother Theodore Guerin spent only 16 years in Indiana before her death in 1856. But the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence she founded continues to be vibrant and mission oriented these 166 years later. Hopes for the effect of the effect of the canonization on the Congregation Compiled by Sister Ann Margaret O’Hara from sisters’ responses The canonization of our foundress, Mother Theodore Guerin, calls all Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in Indiana to...
Providential Connections
This article is reprinted from the winter 2009 issue of HOPE. Let’s take a quiz. What do these things have in common? • An affordable and flexible Catholic college prep school • A teenager who emigrated from Nigeria and settled in Baltimore • Two married Providence Associates • Sisters of Providence teachers • And many Indianapolis companies and individuals? The thread that ties these pieces together is Providence Cristo Rey High School (PCRHS) in Indianapolis. Founded in 2007 as a...
Nearing the realization of a dream
This article is reprinted from summer 2006 issue of HOPE. A project that once seemed like a dream and posed an incredible challenge is heading toward reality. Providence Cristo Rey High School, sponsored by the Sisters of Providence, will open in Indianapolis in July. The new school will focus on serving primarily inner-city students who would not otherwise be able to afford tuition for a Catholic-based education. Providence Cristo Rey will follow a concept established through a national network of...
Letters from the battlefield
...a blessed thing is hope.” To view this transcript more closely, click here. To learn more about the Vigo County Indiana Civil War Sesquicentennial Project, visit here. The digitization of Civil War memorabilia is made possible by a Library Services and Technology Act Mini-Digitization Grant from the Indiana State Library. Partners in the project include Indiana State University’s Cunningham Memorial Library, the Vigo County Public Library, the Vigo County Historical Society and the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind....
Registry records every woman who has entered the Congregation
Since Nov. 9, 1840, every woman who has entered the Sisters of Providence has had her name recorded in one of two entrance books that are kept in the Congregation’s Archives. Now, thanks to our partnership with the Indiana Historical Society, the first entrance book has been digitized and is now available online in an easy-to-read format. Working with the IHS’s Historic Document Preservation Program and the Preservation Imaging Lab, the 300 pages of this unique registry provide a wealth...
The Joy of Vatican II
...visible, and the future is one of discovery and hope.” About the author: Margaret “Peg” Gull Benson graduated from Providence Aspirancy high school at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1964 during the second session of Vatican II and then entered the Sisters of Providence. Since leaving the Congregation in 1968, Peg has taught English and practiced law for 32 years. Peg and her husband, Stephen are the proud parents of Patrick, and enjoy literature, music, politics, and the company of good friends....