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A Reflection for the 2024 Senior Jubilarians
...their grief, spent some time under house arrest, guided those seeking their own vocations to religious life, and used your hands to soothe souls whether by playing music or providing healing massage. Dare I say it again, “You have been astonishing!” The 2024 Sisters of Providence Senior Jubilarians included (front, from left) Sister Mildred Giesler, Sister Dorothy Larson, Sister Connie Kramer, Sister Ann Sullivan, Sister Kathleen Dede, (second row) Sister Marilyn Trobaugh, Sister Maria Smith, Sister Carole Ann Fedders, (third...
Throwback Thursday: Remembering Sister Beth Kelso
This week’s Throwback Thursday will examine the life of Sister Beth Kelso, a Sister of Providence for 76 years. Her grandparents took part in summer stock theatrical productions and during a trip to Canada, met a young Australian actor named Joseph Kelso. Joseph married their daughter, Florine, and the family made a living in the theater. Their daughter, Elizabeth Carroll Kelso was born on Feb. 29, 1916. After being taught by the Sisters of Providence in Marywood Academy, located in...
Sister Mary Concetta Banez
...informed her father that she wanted to try religious life in the United States. Thus, she came to enter the Benedictines of Saint Gertrude Priory in Ridgeley, Maryland, in September 1960. She professed first vows in 1962 and perpetual vows in 1967. As a Benedictine for 16 years, she ministered in education in Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Arizona. In Arizona, she met Sister Virginia Marie Cashion, provincial in the west, who invited her to consider the Sisters...
The Irish Connection
This undated photo depicts Sister Gemma Malone (second from left in back row) and her sister, Sister Francis Catherine (back row, far right) along with Sister Mercedes McAllister (back row, left), Reverend Michael Malone (front, center), Margaret Ann Doriot (front, left) and Jule Doriot. Margaret Ann Doriot later entered the Congregation and was given the religious name Sister Thomas Jeanne. From time to time, people get on Facebook and send us requests for the weekly Throwback Thursday blog. We love...
Teaching, healing and loving as a Sister of Providence
Sister Eileen Rose Bonner, center, visits with Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates at a gathering in 2014 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. (In the week leading up to World Day for Consecrated Life on Feb. 2, several Sisters of Providence will be sharing their stories. Stay tuned to the blog to hear their tales of living as women religious.) I sit here at 6:30 a.m. staring at a blank screen. “Would you please write about your life as a Sister of...
Meet a sister. Be inspired. National Catholic Sisters Week invite
The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are gearing up to celebrate National Catholic Sisters Week March 8-14, and you are invited to join us! National Catholic Sisters Week was first celebrated in 2014 in conjunction with women’s history month and is now celebrated every March 8-14. It is an opportunity to highlight and share with others about what life as a woman religious is all about. We invite you to take the opportunity to learn more about women religious...
Sister Paula Damiano: Full Circle
...Sister Paula to various cultures. A significant influence in Sister Paula’s life was her pediatrician, who was Jewish. He was a close family friend who attended many of their family’s important events. As a child, Sister Paula recognized that her family had a strong bond with him through faith. She noticed that he was kind and respectful of them and their traditions, regardless of religious differences. Also, growing up with the surrounding Amish community helped her understand that there was...
The Sisters of Providence mission: living the Gospel today
...some cases, may be “miserable” in spirit. Our parish life coordinators, pastoral associates, pastoral ministers, campus ministers and religious education directors tend to the soul — and often other needs — of their congregations. Sister Tracey Horan, SP, helps a migrant file a formal complaint of abuse against a U.S. official as part of her ministry with the Kino Border Initiative at the U.S./ Mexico border. Sisters work with refugees who have fled the violence of their own countries. We...
Week 5: Daily reflections with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...no longer for me the land of exile; it was the portion of my inheritance, and in it I hope to dwell all the days of my life.” – Saint Mother Theodore Guerin • How do we work with God to create God’s reign “on earth as it is in heaven”? • How do I honor the land given to me as a portion of my inheritance, as a gift from God? Tuesday, March 28 “Along both banks of the...
You mean the world to us!
Have we told you lately that you are awesome? You are! We have more good news. You’ve given us a reason to celebrate! As a faithful friend this past year to the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, your prayer and monetary support helped us reach our financial goals through the fiscal year ending August 31, 2021. Although religious sisters receive a portion of the annual collection for retired religious, congregations of Catholic sisters like the Sisters of Providence are...
Providence spirituality in action: Sister Kathleen Desautels and 8th Day Center for Justice
...but had never heard of 8th Day. 8th Day Center for Justice 8th Day Center for Justice was founded in 1974 by six religious congregations, including the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and the Claretian Missionaries. 8th Day is missioned “to act as a critical alternative voice to oppressive systems and to work actively to change those systems.” Today, 36 member congregations of Catholic religious and countless partners support the mission and work at 8th Day. (Learn more at...
Newsnotes HOPE summer 2017
...Minimum Wage.” Sister Rosemary represented Forward Together Terre Haute during the event. Sister Marsha Speth serves as a member of the Indiana State University Human Rights Day committee. Sister Marian Brady retires After 35 years teaching in the School of Philosophy at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Sister Marian Brady, SP, retired last spring. “I dearly love teaching, but I’m 89 years old,” Sister Marian said. “I’ve been a teacher all my life. I just know there’s a...