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Providence Self-Sufficiency Ministries: Celebrating 20 years of success
...just and hope-filled world through prayer, education, service and advocacy. The Sisters of Providence have their motherhouse at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, located just northwest of downtown Terre Haute, Ind., which is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Saint Mother Theodore Guerin founded the Sisters of Providence at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1840. Today, Sisters of Providence minister in 13 states, the District of Columbia and Asia, through works of love, mercy and justice. More information about the Sisters of...
A legacy of hospitality
...more comfortable about her coming if she arranged to stay with the sisters.” (You see, word travels even on death row!) Jolene had no previous experience with “sisters,” and so “besides the fear and uncertainty of my first visit to death row, I didn’t know what to expect staying with a bunch of nuns! “I soon found out that staying at Owens was like having 30 moms around me. I felt so safe, so accepted and secure. They even leave...
Mel Marino Wolff: “Thank you for bringing us together!”
...students. To this day, my closest friends (including BFF Anne) are those I met at the Woods about 50 years ago. Some are Associates and some are not, but we are all part of a whole weave of threads started by our favorite saint, St. Mother Theodore Guerin. On the day of the canonization celebration at the Woods, our group got together and highlighted our party with a cake topped with a picture of Mother Theodore and the words: “Thank...
Patricia Gray, Montrose, CO: “It has been a privilege”
This Rooted for Tomorrow story was contributed by Patricia Gray, Montrose, CO, for the 175th anniversary of the Sisters of Providence arriving in Indiana. I think it exciting in this Anniversary year that I am still corresponding with sisters who taught me over 50 years ago. I was at Immaculata in Washington during the time when the number of SPs was at its highest, and we must have had the best of them at our school! Sister Mary Clare convinced...
Sister Francine McGriffin
...in social studies from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s degree in English from the University of Dayton. Between 1945 and 1994, I ministered in the following schools: St. Sylvester, Chicago; St. Thomas Aquinas, Indianapolis; Holy Family, Jasper; St. Elisabeth, Van Nuys, Calif.; the Aspirancy, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods; Schulte High School, Terre Haute; Ladywood and Ladywood-St. Agnes, Indianapolis. After obtaining my LPN license in 1973, I ministered at Methodist Hospital, Indiana University Med Center, and Americana Nursing Home, all in Indianapolis....
A look back at Educational/Family Services
...Mary-of-the-Woods College student Tiffany Winhold helps a student with his math after school at EFS in 2010. A Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College student helps a student with his homework through EFS in 2012 in Hulman Hall. A Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College student volunteers in 2011 to help a boy with his homework after school. Sister Joseph Fillenwarth tutors a student in 2011. EFS Director Penny Sullivan works with an adult student in 2013. Randi Everett, then-administrative assistant at EFS, helps a student...
Bittersweet news from Educational/Family Services
...area college students volunteered their time. Sister Jean Arkenberg (RIP) helps a little girl with her reading at EFS in 2006. See a slideshow below for more photos from EFS through the years. And the time given was well invested. Lives changed. Adults learned to read their mail for the first time. Others passed their GED, opening opportunities to them. Still others learned to read well enough to pass their driver’s license test for the first time. Struggling children found...
Sister Joanna Valentino (formerly Sister Marie Dominic)
...principal, mentor and confidant. One never wondered where she stood on an issue as she was transparent and authentic with all of her loyalty, colorfulness, stubbornness, unique expressions and playful storytelling. How many of us can boast of enjoying a Saturday afternoon phone call from someone we were in the first-grade with, or with whom we worked or taught 49 years ago? Wherever she was in ministry, she would prepare holiday meals in her own home inviting the Sisters of...
I unite with all my sisters and all who share the charism of Providence …
...my most important communities. And my life as a Providence Associate of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is one of the most important parts of my identity. My relationship with my sisters has been formative. They have changed me. From the younger sisters to our retired sisters (some of whom are almost centennials and still emailing me regularly), these women challenge me to be my best self and guide me to find God in new and beautiful ways....
Ecological pioneer teacher leaves lasting impression
Sister Helen Jean Vinton oversees a biology lab at Ladywood-St. Agnes School. Before Sister Helen Vinton was advocating for people and Earth in Loiusiana, she was influencing lives as a science teacher at Ladywood (later Ladywood-St. Agnes) High School in Indianapolis. Her former students remember her as ahead of her time in the 1960s and 70s in bringing ecology and care for Earth to their attention. Follow the link on each name for that person’s full reflection. “The most memorable...
Sister Helen Jean Vinton: a woman for all time
...Seeds were planted in my first biology class at Ladywood (later Ladywood-St. Agnes) High School in Indianapolis in the early 70’s starting me on a journey of appreciating creation and protecting it passionately. Sister Helen Jean was the teacher in that biology class facing a quiet young woman who had no interest in science and knew nothing about protecting the environment. After that year I was a changed person. My sister, Anne, and I started recycling aluminum cans on our...
‘Old Gym’ being torn down
...to the “Old Gym.” “It’s absolutely a necessity. It is in disrepair,” Sister Lisa said. “This is a time when we can do it and need to do it.” According to the college’s website, the earliest recorded basketball game to take place in the gymnasium featured Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College hosting Indiana State Normal College – now Indiana State University. The contest took place in 1920. The game is considered perhaps the first collegiate game to feature two Indiana women’s team....