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Building and healing: Saint Mother Theodore Guerin moment
Construction work on reassembling the log cabin chapel at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 2012. Sister Mary Montgomery, SP, loves fresh air and walking. So it was not surprising to find her outside on a Sunday afternoon enjoying the beauty of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. It proved to be no ordinary walk. She encountered four men who were very eager to learn more about the history of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and foundress, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. That eagerness was all Sister Mary needed, as she...
Nature is a powerful healing source
...ones, and they provided a new platform to view nature as a healing power. Whereas immersing myself in nature as an observer proved to be as healing as I had always known it, putting myself directly within the process of seed to harvest offered a new perspective. Josh Price brings in the summer harvest from the garden in August 2016. On one particular Sunday, I went to the garden to catch up on some tasks that needed completed. It was...
Sister Caroline Hatch
...and fondness by every adult who ever had the honor of being your student. You taught generations of my family. You sang in choir with my mother. You encouraged me to sing loud and proud when you gave me a solo at Sunday Mass when I was 6 years old. When I thought I did poorly because all the adults were crying, you told me they were crying because it was so beautiful. I hung on every word you said....
Sister Margaret Kelly (formerly Sister Bernard Maureen)
...Sister Patty Fillenwarth in her commentary for Sister Margaret Kelly, who died on Sunday, Jan. 15, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 80 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 59 years. Bernard was followed by five more boys: Ed, Tom, Pat, Mike and Jimmy. Finally, God remembered how to make girls and Marian was born. The Kelly family, as did many large families of the 40s and 50s, experienced ups and downs as they struggled together to...
Sister Marceline looks back on the richness of 84 years as a woman religious
...what I wanted to do when I was in first grade. On Sunday after Mass, instead of running up and down, my mom told me to listen to what Sister was talking about and come home to tell her. I found out that Sister was teaching about God. That inspired me to become a sister to teach children about God. Providence has never failed me. Religious life is inspiring because I lived with sisters who themselves are inspiring. Religious life...
Going the extra mile this Lent
...of my day so that I can encounter Christ in it. Since I want to encounter Christ during my Lenten journey, I want to have some specific overarching guiding theme or principle that allows me to do this. This typically comes to me in prayer and Scripture and that is exactly what occurred at an early morning Mass on Sunday, Feb. 19. The theme of ‘going the extra mile’ was presented during the Gospel reading of Jesus’ words in Matthew...
Week 3: Walking through Lent with Saint Mother Theodore
Join us for week 3 of walking through Lent with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin with these short daily reflections. Sunday, March 12: “All the communities of the earth shall find blessing in you.” – Genesis 12:3 “Beloved: Bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God.” – II Timothy 1:8 “The moment of separation and of death had come at last. We had to leave all. After having made the most painful sacrifices, which...
Week 4: Daily Lenten reflections with Saint Mother Theodore
It’s not too late to start! Join us in walking through Lent with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin with these short daily reflections for the week. Sunday, March 19 “The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?’ —For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.” – John 4:9 “Behold, people, but not our Sisters. We shall not meet with friendly faces, with devoted hearts, in this foreign land. Here we...
Sister Rose Marita Riordan
...Care, where she volunteered for years, they called her the “white tornado!” A former colleague at the day care wrote, “She was a remarkable woman who in her 80s could work circles around the rest of us,” said Sister Ann Casper in her commentary for Sister Rose Marita Riordan, who died on Sunday, March 19, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 95 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 78 years. Others marveled at her agility, crawling around...
Week 5: Daily reflections with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
Join us in these short daily reflections. Sunday, March 26 “Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness; rather expose them, for it is shameful even to mention the things done by them in secret; but everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that becomes visible is light.” – Ephesians 5:10-13 “If in leaving this dear mission I could bear away with me the consoling thought that my...
Week 6: Walking through Lent with Saint Mother Theodore
We invite you to continue to walk through Lent with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and with us with these short daily reflections for the coming week. Sunday, April 2 “O my people! I will put my spirit in you that you may live, and I will settle you upon your land.” – Ezekiel 37:14 “What will our good God be in our True Country, since even in our exile He is so great, so powerful, so magnificent!” – Saint Mother...
Sisters to participate in panel discussion of documentary
...how the sisters would host families of the prisoners when they would come for visits. “Providence put all of this into action,” Amy said. As Providence would have it, Amy ran into Tamara at the annual Perkins’ family hayride and the two discussed the possibility of a screening of the documentary locally. From there, Amy sprung to action and secured the screening at the Indiana Theatre, which is scheduled to take place at 2 p.m., on Sunday, April 9. The...