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Crossing the bridge into community: Postulant Stephanie Rivas
...Crossing over Stephanie Rivas knocks on the door of Providence Hall during her entrance ceremony to the Sisters of Providence in September. In September, Stephanie Rivas became the newest woman to join Sisters of Providence. Being a risk taker and breaking boundaries is not new to Stephanie. The first in her family to earn a college degree, she attended Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. She began a career at a community college using her business...
All will be well
...strength, the courage and the fortitude to persevere? Let us pray for you Prayer support can also boost us as we strive for well-being. The Sisters of Providence offer a robust prayer ministry. Do you need some prayer support for yourself or a loved one? Our sisters are happy to help at PrayForUs.SistersofProvidence.org. Present in the moment Regrettably, there are no quick fixes or pills that will restore our sense that “all will be well.” The deeper issues facing our...
A Reflection for the 2024 Foundation Day Mass
...from Terre Haute to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. I will spare you some of the detail for which our Saint Mother Theodore is so well noted, so just imagine six women in a stagecoach. Sister Paula Damiano (left) and Sister Barbara Battista during the 2024 Foundation Day Mass. They are already worn out from almost four months of travel. They have just been ferried across the Wabash River only to find themselves on a road that was so covered with water that...
Sister Brigid Ann Bonner
...11 a.m., on Thursday, July 31. Memorial contributions may be made in honor of Sister Brigid to the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. We welcome you to share your memories of Sister Brigid in the comment section below. Sister Brigid Ann Bonner Complete Ministry In Illinois: Teacher, St. Mark, Chicago (1962-65). In Indiana: Teacher, St. John the Baptist, Whiting (1965-67); Teacher, Our Lady of the Greenwood, Greenwood (1967-69); Teacher, St. John, Loogootee (1969-70); Teacher, St. James, Indianapolis (1970-71); Teacher,...
Sister Patricia Linehan
...depth to Pat that can no more be captured than the vastness and depth of the ocean. She lived a life fuller than most and all the streams of that life led home to God. During her last days, nurses, CNAs and other Providence Health Care staff came to say goodbye, most leaving in tears. One of the CNAs said that Sister Pat would often correct her English. “At first it bothered me,” she said, “But then one day, she...
2025 Foundation Day in photos
The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, celebrated the 2025 Foundation Day with a morning prayer vigil by the Log Cabin Chapel and a Mass later that morning in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski offered a reflection during the Mass regarding the 185 years of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods....
Revisiting a Spooky Legend
...focused on a haunting ghost story that had been passed down through generations of students and Sisters of Providence. The story has generated so much interest throughout the years that even the Vigo County Public Library posted a video about it in 2023. We wanted to share this first-hand account with you today as we all celebrate Halloween. Have a ghoulish time reading! The present “Exorcist” fad has encouraged much speculation at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College about a Foley Hall exorcism...
Sisters to host Christmas Fun at the Woods
...including crafts, storytelling, face painting, a bake sale, cake walk and much more. Those planning on attending are encouraged to bring their own cameras for photographic memories throughout the day. Tours of the Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Shrine and Blessed Sacrament Chapel will also be available throughout the day. We welcome a suggested donation of $5/car for this event. No pre-registration is required. For more information, click here, or call 812-535-2946 or email lrobinette@spsmw.org. The Sisters of Providence need more...
Our special practices
...the belief that an action was meant to convey, or when circumstances in society make it impossible to do the practice in the way it was done in the past, those externals are clearly no longer useful and a new way of expressing that still fundamentally important Christ-like action and attitude must be born. If we do not find new ways to express these vitally important values, our lives as Christians eventually stagnate and die. So paying attention to our...
To Mother Theodore and Companions
Fragile forerunners of ourselves, we thank you for your coming, Bearing sainted heroes’ names across the seas. You are a litany chanted down the years: Theodore, St. Vincent Ferrer, St. Ligouri, Olympiade, with St. Francis Xavier scurrying after you Another year. You look on us amazed, as women will At daughters growing generations After them. We are all this century knows Of any value in your venturing Into a wilderness where Christ was waiting for you, Waiting in the poor,...
Providence Cristo Rey High School: 10 years of changing lives in Indianapolis
...want to come. You are my family, my community. But my school shoes are locked in the house and we cannot enter.” Sister Jeanne assured her she could come (barefoot if need be!) and that the school community would be there waiting for her. Meanwhile, students were apprised of the situation and given some guidance about how “to be” with her. Sure enough, she arrived, and the students, faculty and staff embraced her with love. Despite that tragedy, Alisa carried...
Reflection and Prayer for an Execution
...fullness of our human emotion.* From the cross, from the point of death, Jesus creates for us a space to both feel and forgive. May we not forget this gift. May we find the space and the strength to feel our gravest wounds and yet live with mercy towards all human life. From Prayer Vigil for an Execution Catholic Mobilizing Network. *Sonia David MDiv, “Luke 23:33-34” Lecture. The Paulist Center’s Seven Last Words Ecumenical Service. Boston, MA, April 14, 2017....