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Touched by the Woods for a lifetime
...the restoration of the St. Anne Shell Chapel.(see story here). Touched by Love, Mercy and Justice Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is more than a place. It’s alive with the mission of the Sisters of Providence. It’s a place where I’m renewed and continually touched. The Sisters of Providence “are dedicated to being God’s Providence in the world by committing ourselves to works of love, mercy and justice in service among God’s people.” Love, mercy and justice — it’s how I aspire to...
Growing Earth into the future, from where you are
...are linked to climate change. Sister Mary Ann Phelan and Providence Associate Jean Brown sign the agreement. On Monday, July 2, Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates joined together for education and action aimed at helping to do our part to give Earth a chance at growing into the future. With the help of the Climate Change Task Force, the group explored the intersectionalities of climate change and women/children, climate injustice and racism, and climate change and immigration/refugees. Then, in...
Sister Miriam Clare Stoll
...she told her mother, who agreed. Margaret Mary had four aunts who were Sisters of Providence so she wrote to them. (The sisters, as most of us know, were the Coppersmiths: Sisters Scholastica, Mary Xavier, Mary Albertine and Mary Anselm). They replied that she should wait for the next group. So, Margaret Mary told her mother, “I don’t care where I go, so I will go to the sisters who taught me, the Precious Blood Sisters.” So she wrote to...
Special Retreat ‘treats’
...in the East. Mother Marie Gratia Luking led the Sisters of Providence mission to Kaifeng, China, in 1920. When outlining this year’s home retreat theme, the planning committee – Sisters of Providence Paula Damiano, Janice Smith and Dr. Norene Wu, and Providence Associate Jane Fischer – designed programming around the book “Against All Odds,” the historical account of the missionaries’ ministries in Asia, written by Sister Ann Colette Wolf, SP. They incorporated Sister Dawn’s and Bishop Su’s letters, the sisters’...
Celebrating 200 years of Catholicism in North Carolina
Sisters of Providence General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, SP, having received an invitation from St. Patrick Catholic Church, Fayetteville, N.C. — the oldest Catholic Church in North Carolina — requesting the presence of Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, at the celebration of their 200th anniversary of the founding of the parish, asked two representatives, Sister Betty Paul and Sister Katherine Francis French to attend the celebration. Sister Betty Paul (left) and Sister Kathy French with Bishop Luis Zarama,...
Newsnotes
Read the book with us! Join us for a book study. November 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the Sisters of Providence Mission to China. To prepare for next year’s celebration, Sisters of Providence, associates, ministry partners and you are invited to undertake a book study of the Congregation biography “Against All Odds Sisters of Providence Mission to the Chinese,” by Sister Ann Colette Wolf, SP. The Sisters of Providence were the first U.S. women’s religious Congregation to start a...
Feast Day for Our Lady of Providence
November 19, 2024 at 11:00 am Church of the Immaculate Conception 1 Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 Sisters of Providence Free The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, and Providence Associates invite persons of all faith traditions to join them in person or virtually for the Eucharistic Liturgy (Mass) at 11:00 a.m., on Tuesday, Nov. 19, to celebrate the Feast Day of Our Lady of Providence. Celebrate the Feast Day of Our Lady of Providence by joining...
Sister Margaret Nau (formerly Sister Jude Ann)
...Blessed Sacrament Chapel, she came to believe that God’s plan for her would be as a Sister of Providence. After graduating in 1961, she entered the Congregation the following September as one of the largest band ever, 66 young women. Apparently they were a challenge to postulant director, Sister Isabel Storch, because Sister Mary Catherine Guiler recalls that just prior to reception she told them they were not worthy to receive the habit of the Sisters of Providence because they were still...
Sister Margaret “Peggy” Lynch (formerly Sister James Patrick)
Reading: God of Providence (v. 1 and 3) by Sister Margaret Lynch, SP God of PROVIDENCE God of hope and possibility you summon us into life brood over us with your love’s creative force transform our hearts so that we may also love. God of PROVIDENCE God of hope and possibility nourish our hunger for living simply with imagination enough to see what is possible with courage enough to shape that vision into reality and with perseverance enough to carry...
Sister Joyce Brophy (formerly Sister Robert Ellen)
...Office, Diocese of Joliet (1983-84); Principal, St. Dennis School, Lockport (1992-95). In California: Teacher, St. Elisabeth, Van Nuys (1955-59). In Indiana: Mistress of Postulants, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1965-68); Director of Scholastics, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1968-69); Assistant Vice President for Development, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1980-82); Teacher, Sacred Heart School, Terre Haute (1995-99); Volunteer for The Connecting Link and Providence Center, West Terre Haute and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1999-2012); Volunteer, Providence Spirituality & Conference Center, Providence Health Care, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2012-18); Residential Service...
Sister Joan Slobig (formerly Sister Denis Mary)
...Ministry In Washington, D.C.: Teacher, Immaculata Prep (1968-69). In Illinois: Librarian/Teacher, Providence St. Mel, Chicago (1969-71); Director of Instruction, Mother Theodore Guerin High School, River Grove (1975-77); Counselor, Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center, Naperville (1994-96). In Indiana: Admission Councilor/Coordinator and Dean of Admissions, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1971-75); Director of Novices, Sisters of Providence; Assistant Professor, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (1980-86); Director of Formation, St. Joan of Arc, Indianapolis (1986-90); Director of Formation, Indianapolis (1990-91); General Councilor, Sisters of Providence (1996-2001);...
Coming of age with Vatican II
Sister Denise Wilkinson in various stages of formation with the Sisters of Providence. From left, entering the congregation, as a postulant and as a novice Sister Denise Wilkinson today On Sept. 12, 1963, the Sisters of Providence welcomed 58 of us as postulants. We arrived with a small black suitcase and a foot locker filled with a variety of personal supplies, regulation nightgowns, black stockings, nun shoes, men’s white handkerchiefs, black postulant skirts, black under blouses and black capes. We...