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Providence Associate commitment ceremony 2017
...and her companion Sister Barbara Bluntzer, standing, chat with other associates. Jean Smith with Eileen and Joe Horan and their daughter Sister Tracey Horan Providence Associate Mary Bales with her companion Sister Laurette Bellamy Providence Associate Patti Burris and her companion Sister Kay Kelly Sister Paula Damiano companions Providence Associate Shawn Shamsaie Providence Associate Peggy Stewart with her companion Sister Terri Boland Companion Sister Rosemary Ward with Providence Associate Laura Dudkowski Sandra Powell with her companion Providence Associate Mary Longtine...
Prisoners & Probationers of Conscience
...O’Hara (then General Superior of the Sisters of Providence) said, “We, the General Council of the Sisters of Providence, respect the choice of conscience of our sisters and support them with our love and our prayer. It is only through courageous acts such as theirs that others can be made aware of what the military arm of our government is doing in our names.” Read the original press releases: Nov. 18, 2002: “Three Sisters of Providence arrested in Georgia for...
Loving, listening and governance
Sisters and associates participate in the first days of General Chapter. From front left, Providence Associate Paul Salstrom, Sister Marian Brady, Providence Associate Father Dan Hopcus, Sisters Marianne Ridgell, and Lucy Nolan. One of my favorite accounts from our early history is our Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s “take” on comments offered by Father Pere Gleizal, SJ, after he had given the annual retreat for the sisters at Saint Mary’s in August of 1854. She wrote to her dear friend Bishop...
Archives: Keeper of the Stories
This article is reprinted from the summer 2012 issue of HOPE. “Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever.” — Cicero, by way of Sister Marie Esther Sivertsen If you visit our Archives, you’ll find these helpful women. From left are: Sisters Mary Ryan, Marie Grace Molloy, Donna Butler, Marie Esther Sivertsen and Marianne Mader. The Sisters of Providence have Archives. That isn’t news for some, although it’s not something you think about...
Sisters honor elders with ‘90s Party!’
...Besides the guests of honor, many packed the dining hall, including staff members, Providence Associates, relatives and sisters, some of whom served as companions for their elders. The party began with a parody of the song, “Alouette,” followed by a greeting from Vicar Sister Lisa Stallings. Father Daniel Hopcus then offered a prayer before everyone broke into a parody of “Alice Blue Gown.” Then, representatives from the Sisters of Providence archives department offered blessings for all the recognized sisters and...
Recognizing the Sisters who served our Country
Observing Memorial Day means a lot more than firing up the grill and serving hamburgers and hot dogs. As a country, we recognize those who lost their lives during war time. Seventeen Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, answered the call of duty to serve our country during times of war. On Monday, May 27, many Sisters of Providence will take flags to the Congregation cemetery and place them next to the grave of those sisters who served. Sister...
Sister Mary Mark Dede: God’s Grace for Today
...Life Today, Sister Mary Mark, at 96, is the fourth oldest living Sister of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She is also the oldest living sibling in her family. Of eight siblings, all eight became either Catholic priests or Catholic sisters. Sisters Eileen and Kathleen Dede, also Sisters of Providence, live at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sister Patricia Dede, a Sister of St. Benedict, resides in Beech Grove, Indiana. Raised in Terre Haute, Indiana, Sister Mary Mark said the Sisters of Providence were...
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 John Mary Rifner
...years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 66 years. Sister Ann continued: Cecilia Ann, as did Mary (Martha Ann) and her deceased siblings, John and Aggie, attended Weir Public School and New Castle Senior High School, from which she graduated in 1947. She and Mary got to know the Sisters of Providence when their father drove three sisters from Richmond every Sunday to teach afternoon catechism, followed by benediction. After St. Anne School opened in 1951, the...
Jubilee Celebration 2018
Five Sisters of Providence, Sisters Pat Linehan, Jan Craven, Kathleen Bernadette Smith, and Jody O’Neil and Marianne Ridgell celebrated their 25th and 50th Jubilees on Saturday, June 30. Visit this link to read more about these eleven sisters celebrating jubilee. Sister Marianne Ridgell greets a guest Sister Jan Craven is greeted by Sister Donna Butler. Sisters Jody O’Neil, Marianne Ridgell, Jan Craven and Paula Damiano druing the Mass. Sisters Kate Smith and Loretta Picucci visit at the reception...
Nancy Vandenbergh-Kremer, Chicago, IL: “Friendship and love”
...the Sisters and my grandmother came often by surprise to our hot, second floor apartment, checking in as she was busy with new mother chores. Staying through lunch, as it was the Summer of 1955, and they had returned from St Mary’s to begin work on their classrooms for the upcoming school year. Sisters of Providence were frequent visitors to our home and were soon adopted as our “aunts.” Sisters of Providence were frequent visitors to our home and were...
Jeremy Hackerd’s comments
...this time did not significantly improve the situation. Statewide school organization was almost non existent and illiteracy was prevalent, 1 in 7 could not read. By the early 1840s, 53% of school aged children did not attend school. It was into this environment that Saint Theodora Guerin was called to Indiana. In 1839, the Bishop of Vincennes contacted the Sisters of Providence in Ruille, asking that they send Sisters to Indiana in order to establish schools in his diocese. The...