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Newsnotes: winter 2019 updates from the Sisters of Providence
...classes for two weeks, which helped her understand the language even more. The scholarship awarded to Sister Joni — totaling $5,000 — also offered her an opportunity to learn more about her heritage. “Having the ability to read and write Spanish helps me to reach out to those in the Hispanic community,” Sister Joni said. Fall Farm Day Lots of friends, both old and new, enjoyed sunny hayrides, arts and crafts, visits with the alpacas and more during our first-ever...
Sister John Mary Rifner
...that then, but I’m sure they were drooling at the thought. “The marching band also practiced at 5 p.m., in a field very near the convent and, when the weather was warm enough to have the chapel windows open, we prayed to the tune of the Northwestern fight song.” Martha Ann relayed one of her favorite anecdotes. When John Mary taught first grade, she was trying to explain the Trinity, using the traditional three-leaf shamrock approach. Then, she had a...
Reflecting on Palm Sunday 2019
I’m having a terrible time writing a reflection for Palm Sunday. I’ve been trying to come up with a good idea, but everything I come up with seems trite, too “pious.” Consequently, all kinds of unhelpful things are cluttering up my mind. Like what? Like: When I was a kid and the Mass was all in Latin, was the Gospel read in Latin? Was that why it seemed so l-o-n-g? Like: Why, when the Gospel is read by several people,...
Looking back on Good Friday
...the Son of God, Jesus Christ, died for my sins? I’m not sure I knew then (or even now, for that matter) whether or not I accomplished adoration or meditation. What I do remember is that I was filled with a deep sense of admiration and love for all those characters along the way of the cross and for the man who was crucified there. Besides Jesus, of course, Veronica was my favorite. “Veronica wipes the face of Jesus.” I...
Sister Mary Jo Stewart (formerly Sister Joseph Maureen)
...her brother Hank was 14 years older. When Hank married, his wife Helen was a real gift to Mary Jo, as she cared for her and looked after her. They were always great friends. Later in life, Mary Jo was able to return the kindness by taking Hank and Helen to Mass when he could no longer drive. One of Hank and Helen’s children, Mary Jo’s niece Jeanine, shared that their favorite memory of Mary Jo was as they were...
Sister Mary Ann Leahy, (formerly Sister Marie Anita)
...in prayer. “Without a note or hesitation, Mary paused a moment and then began a favorite prayer – the Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas: Grant me grace, O merciful God, to desire ardently all that is pleasing to you. To examine it prudently, to acknowledge it truthfully and to accomplish it perfectly for the praise and glory of your name,” Barbara said. Those who worked with and for Mary remembered her for her support, encouragement, counsel, courage, efficiency, effectiveness, generous...
Graduation Day!
...well as on the support of her family and the Providence community. One of my favorite moments of the graduation ceremony happened when the commencement speaker asked those family and friends who had supported the graduates to stand and be recognized. Across the arena, I could see Arrianne’s family pop right up just about the time we Sisters of Providence took to our feet. In so many ways, we felt like we were graduating, too! Sister Patty Wallace at Sister...
Breathe in the Woods
...I am led to the following questions: How do spring and well-being collaborate? How do the seasons effect healing for the body, mind, and spirit? A sure sign of spring are pastel colors. Many pastel colors filled the lawn at Providence Health Care on Tuesday, April 16, when staff were treated to a surprise Easter egg hunt! Residents watched and cheered on their favorite nurse or CNA while staff scurried along to find those prized eggs. For many residents and...
Sister Michaela Galvin
...BVM. Since it was such a short time since she had left home, as a return address on her letters, she would write Convent of Our Lady, for fear neighbors might suspect she was actually at a home for unwed mothers. After her second novitiate, in February 1951, she returned to Chicago, this time at St. Leo. Sister Janet Gilligan, at the time a St. Leo’s sixth-grader, recalled that when the superior came in to introduce Michaela, she started by...
Digitizing the letters and journals of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...penning only dry, conventional platitudes. She continued to write vibrant, entertaining letters and dramatic accounts of her travels. Her sisters recognized the extraordinary abilities and holiness of the author of these writings. They began preserving them after her death. They transcribed them into copy books, translated them, and preserved the original autographs whenever possible. In 1937, Sister Mary Theodosia Mug published 160 of the translated and edited letters as well as the three journals of travel in The Journals and...
This Memorial Day: Take time to Remember
...I often searched for ways to connect with him and so asked him about his time as a U.S. Army pilot/bombardier during World War II. He told me about his favorite mission. He and his squadron were sent low into the Netherlands to drop boxes of food in the village squares because the Dutch people there had been cut off from supplies and were starving. Years later, as a plant manager for a manufacturing firm in Chicago, my uncle conducted...