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You can help bring a happy ending to restore St. Joseph’s Lake
...spot would make a nice recreation spot for your sisters. You should work on it.” Work on it Sister Jean did. Sisters and friends chose a site at the lake and worked and worked and worked to create a place for sisters to picnic, swim, canoe, camp. Enjoyment and refreshment were the goals. Check out this article to get the details of the hard work, fun, and collaboration with friends that carried on during this time. The middle The middle...
HOPE winter 2017 — bearing the light in unbearable times
...The word “eco-justice” has its roots in the Latin word oikos, the home or household. Thus, eco-justice refers to caring for and attending to the “household of creation,” including people, creatures, ecosystems, economy, environment, food, water, air, and rules that facilitate the well-being of all in the home.) Ministry of prayer and smiles offer light We Sisters of Providence rely on our “powerhouse of prayer” as some call our sisters who reside in our health care facilities. These sisters receive...
Sister Antonia Marie Zick: A Providential Dream
...to the meeting. She was greeted by Sisters Mary Albertine and Mary Emmanuel, both Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Thus began Josepha’s journey from Germany to the United States. Sister Antonia Marie left Germany on July 15, 1909, and arrived in the United States on August 5. She was sent by Sisters Mary Albertine and Mary Emmanuel to Fort Wayne, Indiana, alone, where she would meet more Sisters of Providence for the trip to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Josepha would finally...
The Sisters of Providence count on you
Do you feel your gifts have an impact on the Sisters of Providence mission and ministries? We asked many of our supporters this question. Some felt their gifts were too small to make a difference. Nothing could be further from the truth! Your gift, no matter the size, is needed. For the Sisters of Providence, small gifts make a huge difference. Last year, gifts of $10, $20 and $50 helped provide over $150,000 to continue the mission of the Sisters...
COVID-19: ‘Lessons’ Learned
...of our sisters. With the pandemic, that has all changed. This is the routine now. The food is served by a sister or staff volunteers from one side of the buffet. When volunteers arrive, handwashing is the first order of business, then the garbing of hairnets, aprons, masks, and plastic gloves. Sisters to be served wait in the hallway, 6-feet apart (marked by X’s on the floor), or they get called out by the volunteer sister hostess. Hand sanitizer comes...
Saint Mother Theodore’s welcome: a foundation day reflection
...to lose, the heart is inaccessible to fear.” Which meant that fear was a perfectly plausible reality on that dark October night. Only, as far as Mother Theodore was concerned, it had simply lost its power to take anything more from her. Emily Houser, 14 at the time, submitted this rendition of Saint Mother Theodore’s journey to and founding of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods for the 2013 Sisters of Providence youth art contest. “Come down, Sisters, we have arrived,” announced Father Buteaux....
Sister Loretta Maureen Gansemer
...she was a Sister of Providence. She was a devoted student, daughter and follower of Mother Theodore and avidly read every syllable she knew to be written about her; and often quoted her. And how she reveled in the glory of belonging to the Sisters of Providence bands of 1949 and 1951! She was a person who modeled great love; trying every day to live as her best self – hoping to be a mirror of Jesus, her beloved. She...
Sisters of Providence honor elder sisters
“You certainly have fed the soul of the Congregation,” Sister Denise Wilkinson said. “We love and celebrate you.” Sisters of Providence General Superior Sister Denise Wilkinson was talking to 31 sisters, all aged 90 and over, who were recognized for lives well-lived at a “90s Party,” in the dining hall at Providence Hall on the grounds of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind., Monday, Aug. 4. The afternoon began with the singing of “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” followed by the welcome from...
Three countries of heritage: France, Taiwan and U.S.
...On day three prior to the Oct. 25 public opening of the shrine, I’d like to focus on just three countries that have played a significant role in the 174 years since our foundation in 1840: France, United States and China. From France to America to China, the call to mission is basic to our history. Sisters Martine and Henri Dominique in the Sisters of Providence Archives looking through Saint Mother Theodore’s journals and letters. Of course, France sent us...
This Memorial Day: Take time to Remember
...1852 and died in 1879. Eleven Sisters of Providence ministered as nurses during the Civil War: Sisters St. Felix Buchanan, Helena Burns, Frances Ann Carney, Athanasius Fogarty, Eugenia Gorman, Sophie Glenn, Mary Francis Guthneck, Henrietta MacKenzie, Mary Louise Malone, Mary Rose O’Donaghue and Matilda Swinley. Four sisters served in some capacity before they entered the Congregation: Sisters Francis de Lourdes Reilly, RIP, Ruth Sondhaus, RIP, Catherine Hartman, RIP, and Patricia Linehan. Sister Patricia “Pat” Linehan Two offered assistance during the...
At home in the Catholic Church with the SPs
...grow. And leave it to those Sisters of Providence to really shake things up for me. One of my college majors was theology, the study of God, and the classes were not what I’d expected. I distinctly remember an evening spent crying my eyes out because my theology professors didn’t believe a literal devil existed. After college I got married and began work in the Sisters of Providence Mission Advancement office. There I listened to and observed the sisters; I...
Father Daniel Hopcus: 50 Golden Years!
Father Dan Hopcus, PA When discussing Father Daniel Hopcus with various Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, so many adjectives come up. Father Dan, as he is commonly called, celebrated his 50-year Jubilee on April 30. In the process of putting together a piece regarding his milestone, many sisters were interviewed, and their responses were glowing. Father Dan is humble, tender-hearted, attentive, friendly and more. Father Dan has been with the Sisters of Providence for 12 years. But the relationship...