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Sister Catherine Buster (formerly Sister Joseph Norine)
...stories, but it would take us late into the evening of this holy day, said Sisters Josephine Bryan and Carolyn Glynn in their commentary for Sister Catherine Buster, formerly Sister Joseph Norine, who passed away on Sunday, June 26, 2022, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She was 85-years-old and had been a Sister of Providence for 66 years. The sisters continued: This dear soft-spoken woman was a dynamo in her ministry, a gentle compassionate and tenacious advocate for those in need,...
Celebrating Thanksgiving as Sisters of Providence
A Sister of Providence bastes a turkey at Holy Spirit Convent, Indianpolis, ca. 1960. Posing for a photo in 1987 are sisters serving in Taiwan (seated, left to right): Sisters Catherine Hartman (RIP), Eleanor Buckley (RIP) and Agnes Joan Li (RIP); (standing): Sisters Celeste Tsai, Norene Wu, Rosa Pan, Edith Pfau (RIP), Dorothy Souligny (RIP) and Regina Mary Wallace. Retired sisters at St. Joseph Convent in Quincy, Mass., get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving in 1992 with former General Superior Sister...
Sister Delan Ma
...home for lunch. I showed him and he asked, “Do you really want to go?” I said yes. He said, “OK, you write.” He corrected my letter. This was really unusual. No matter where I would go, my mother and father were so afraid I would get lost. They would always wait for me to get home from school. For me to go to the Sisters of Providence and not know who the Sisters of Providence were, was unusual. My...
Sister educators reminisce about Sisters of Providence Schools
Sister Theresa Clare Carr with her classroom of second graders at Our Lady of Mercy School in Chicago in 1957. Several Sisters of Providence recently took a walk down memory lane reminiscing about Sisters of Providence Schools where we once taught. “Our goal always was to empower the students. My goal as a journalism and English teacher was to help them find their own voice and to figure out how they could make their own imprint on the world,” Sister...
Sister Ellen Cunningham (formerly Sister Michael Aquinas)
...today. For both Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and the Sisters of Providence, Ellen consistently and persuasively brought to the fore issues of justice and worked toward fair and just resolutions. As one of the sisters who served in administration at the college said of Ellen, “She is the moral compass of the College.” Yes, the Canaanite woman and Ellen are soul sisters – loving, brave, persistent and quick thinkers. But there’s another thing we don’t know about the Canaanite woman that...
Newsnotes HOPE summer 2017
...Sisters of Providence in Jasper, Indiana. More than 20 Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates attended the celebration. The festivities included a one-woman dramatic presentation on Saint Mother Theodore by Providence Associate Sandra Hartlieb, Mass with the bishop, the statue blessing/dedication and a reception for sisters, parishioners and guests. 40 years! Sister Theresa Clare Carr was honored Feb. 19 with a special Mass and reception celebrating her retirement after 40 years teaching at Nativity School in Indianapolis. Sister Theresa Clare...
Sister Marie Kevin Tighe
...her response. That simple schoolgirl event left a lasting mark on me and I wanted to belong to a community that had such a spirit. The night before I entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Providence, my five older sisters decided we should all dress in formals and have our picture taken. The next day I moved from formal wear to a postulant’s black uniform, and from having five older sisters to having hundreds of them. For the next...
Sister Charles Van Hoy
...Anthony, Indianapolis (164-70); Teacher, All Saints, Indianapolis (1970-71); Teacher/Librarian, St. Charles, Peru (1973-75); Bookkeeper/Adult Education Teacher, United Southside Community Organization, Indianapolis (1975-83); Pastoral Associate, St. Patrick/Holy Rosary Parish, Indianapolis (1983-93); Director of Activity Department, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1994-96); Coordinator of Activities, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2006-14); Volunteer, Helping Hands/Providence Food Pantry, West Terre Haute (2014-17); Residential Services, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2014-18); Prayer, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2018-2021). In Maryland: Teacher, St. Clement, Lansdowne (1971-73)....
Against All Odds: Focus on Sister Eugene Marie Howard, SP
The book, “Against All Odds: Sisters of Providence Mission to the Chinese,” came out in 1990. That year was the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Sisters of Providence in Indiana and the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the mission in China. I had been on mission in Taiwan for three years from 1983-1986, and would be returning in the fall of 1990 to resume teaching after four years of study for my doctorate. Needless...
A sister remembers working to racially integrate schools
...Wilson and Burlington, North Carolina, also served their schools during processes of integration. All Sisters of Providence left the Diocese of Raleigh in 1972 over disagreements with Bishop Waters regarding the sisters’ return to contemporary dress following the Second Vatican Council. Watch for the fall issue of HOPE magazine next month for a listing of schools still in operation that Sisters of Providence founded or ran for many years, such as St. Ann’s and St. Patrick’s in Fayetteville, North Carolina....
Sister Agnes Eugene Cordak
...to the sisters whom she quietly served, in her retirement years, especially. One of the questions asked by inclusion in the memory book is: “What is the best thing about being a Sister?” Her answer? “Just being one. I have loved being a Sister of Providence.” How significant then that she was now joined not only her parents and other beloved family members, but also our foundress Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and a host of other deceased Sisters of Providence...
Ten years of transformation
...comment that this would “allow you time to reflect on your time in (trans)formation as a Sister of Providence.” Formation to transformation For those who don’t know, we (namely the temporary professed Sisters of Providence), recently renamed our group from the Women in Formation to the Women in Transformation. We think this better reflects the active evolution that we undertake when we enter community and start the long and sometimes arduous process of learning who we are as Sisters of...