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A bit of anti-racism history

...and she was interested in learning more about Native Americans upon her arrival here from France three years earlier. In 1868, African Americans were banned from schools in Jeffersonville, Ind. Sisters of Providence provided classes for them after Liturgy on Sundays. In 1937, African American students were accepted at St. John Academy in Indianapolis for the first time. The Congregation also helped open St. Bridget School and St. Rita School, both schools in Indianapolis neighborhoods highly populated by African Americans....

SP Annual Meeting 2018

...Associates show on their hands. Being community, from left, Sisters Evelyn Ovalles, Judy Birgen and Marilu Covani. Intent in table discussion are Providence Associate Father Dan Hopcus, Sister Regina Gallo and Providence Associate Jeannie Smith. Sisters and associates performing at the Sunday evening ice cream social. Visible from left, Providence Associates Mel Marino Wolff, Sheila Donis, Sisters Connie Kramer, Dina Bato and Terri Grasso. PA Diann Neu and Sister Mary Montgomery. Sisters and associates join the peaceful protest to keep...

Sister Antonia Marie Zick: A Providential Dream

...and he said he could arrange a meeting. She agreed and went to the meeting, traveling down the same streets she had in her dream. Only, during this meeting, Josepha met with a sister, but something did not feel right, so she left the convent without meeting the American sisters. During confession on the last Sunday in May that year, father Peter Beda, O.S.B., asked her again if she wanted to meet with the American sisters. She agreed and went...

A historical look at The Church of the Immaculate Conception

...now visible. Sisters Agnes Clare Cassidy, Geraldine Mullen and Catherine Marie Daily (all since deceased) were able to point out the location as all three were in the novitiate at the time of the dedication of the church and were able to take part in the ceremony. Don’t forget to spend your Sunday, October 21, with the Sisters of Providence and take part in the Fall Architectural Tour of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, from 2 to 4 p.m.!...

The joy of living out my vocation to religious life

...in 2017. In many ways, I have always found myself in the midst of the Sisters of Providence. My dad’s oldest sibling was Sister Esther Marie Sullivan. Dad frequently drove for the sisters, and I was his companion. On Sunday afternoons during the school year, you would find the entire Sullivan family visiting at St. Rose Convent in Chelsea, Massachusetts. While the adults would enjoy visiting in the parlor, I would be ice skating with the sisters in the enclosed...

A New Advent Symbol

...to be a providential understanding of peace—the undeniable link between the environment, society, and the most vulnerable, and a personal sense of peaceful well-being…Barry Commoner’s first law of ecology is simple, yet its implications are complex: “Everything is connected to everything else.” Just before the prayer someone discovered that between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning a spider had spun a fragile web between the candles, aptly reminding us of the web of life. I love this new symbol of Advent!...

Sister John Mary Rifner

...years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 66 years. Sister Ann continued: Cecilia Ann, as did Mary (Martha Ann) and her deceased siblings, John and Aggie, attended Weir Public School and New Castle Senior High School, from which she graduated in 1947. She and Mary got to know the Sisters of Providence when their father drove three sisters from Richmond every Sunday to teach afternoon catechism, followed by benediction. After St. Anne School opened in 1951, the...

Sister Marie Paul Haas

...she forgot. Her passion was unbelievable – for her music and for her students.” Using the words “teacher of applied music” to describe Marie Paul meant the following: She taught a grade school guitar group, as well as a group of high school, college and beyond, former students who played a Mass every Sunday for liturgy. She taught individual or group lessons in violin, viola and bass and conducted the school orchestra. She gave piano lessons and trained organists for...

Breathe in the Woods

...staff, memories came flooding back. One staff member said, “I haven’t looked for eggs in years. I always just watch my kids. It was so much fun!” Residents smiled, laughed and a few cried. Memories are so important. Memories can take us back to many places. To some, this was a memory of their children, maybe remembering their little girls with pigtails in their best Easter Sunday dress, running through green grass, giggling, during a time that was most certainly...

Sister Michaela Galvin

...next enjoyed several years close to home in Chelsea before returning to the Midwest, where her summer studies at Notre Dame prepared her to transition to appointments as a high school English teacher. In 1968, she returned to her alma mater, Cheverus, as superior and principal. These were years of great changes in society and in the church when previously normal routines were challenged. Sister Ruth Ellen Doane recalls a Sunday dinner when she, having grown up a landlocked Hoosier,...

White Violet Wednesday: The story behind our cucumbers

...it dies in a day or two. This means we won’t get to enjoy as long a harvest as we have in years’ past. Stop by the Farm Store at White Violet for cucumbers as well as a variety of other certified organic vegetables and herbs. The store is open Monday through Friday from 11-6 and Saturdays and Sundays from 10-3. You can also find us Saturdays from 8-12 at the Terre Haute Farmers Market at the Meadows Shopping Center....

Celebrate with us! Sister Emily’s first vows

Sister Emily TeKolste professed vows of poverty, chastity and obedience for the the first time as a Sister of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on Sunday, June 30, 2019, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. We are so blessed to have Sister Emily with us on this journey of living out love, mercy and justice in service of God’s people. Learn more about becoming a Sister of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The world needs us for this. Sister Emily is all smiles as...