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Celebrating our senior jubilarians!
...Sister Lisa Stallings, General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski and General Councilors Sister Jenny Howard and Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp. Not photographed: Sisters Marian Brady and Marie Denis Lucey. The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, honored their 60-year Jubilarians on Tuesday, Dec. 17, including (front, left) Sister Ellen Cunningham and (back, second from right) Sister Paula Modaff. The two are photographed with (front, right) General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski and (back, from left) General Councilors Sister Mary Beth Klingel, Sister...
Foundation Day and our French connection
Note: The following are the reflections offered by General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, Vicar Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp and General Councilor Sister Carole Kimes during our Foundation Day Mass, which took place on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. Introduction — Sister Dawn Tomaszewski Peace be to this house on this our 182nd Foundation Day! General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski reflecting during the 2022 Foundation Day Mass as Father Terry Johnson listens. I don’t know how it is for you, but for me...
Providence: together as one creation
...superiors come together toward this goal. And so the Conference of Major Superiors of Women [which later became the Leadership Conference of Women Religious] was formed in the United States. Efforts to work together continued during the 1960s. Then Vatican II called us to walk with the people of God and watch for the “signs of the times.” By the early 1970s, religious were coming together in new ways. The justice lobbying group NETWORK formed in Washington, D.C. The 8th...
Neighbors and nonviolence: a call to reflection
“Deliver us from the violence of superiority and disdain. Grant us the desire, and the humility, to listen with special care to those whose experiences and attitudes are different from our own.” From the Litany of Non-violence of the Sisters of Providence (1992). See full Litany of Nonviolence here. Can you remember a time you felt you were better than someone else — superior? Maybe you even said so. Do you see any connection between that and violence? What...
Twenty-one Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...earned her master’s degree in education from the University of Illinois and her MPS in Pastoral Studies from Loyola University. Her Indiana ministries include: • Indianapolis: Teacher, St. Philip Neri (1959-65), • Terre Haute: Associate Administrator, Director of Religious Studies, St. Ann Parish (1985-86), and • Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: General Superior, Sisters of Providence (1986-96). Sister Nancy has also ministered in Oklahoma and Illinois. Sister Ann Matilda Holloran is a native of Indianapolis. Currently, she ministers in holistic health services, Saint...
Thirty Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...Andrew (1961-65), New Albany: Teacher/Principal Superior, Holy Trinity (1965-69), Fort Wayne: Teacher, St. John (1973-75), Whiting: Teacher, St. John the Baptist (1975-79), Indianapolis: Teacher, St. Luke (1979-84), Indianapolis: Computer Center Coordinator/Administrative Assistant/Teacher, St. Luke (1984-85), Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Generalate Staff/Office of Records (1991-92), Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Director of Office of Records (1992-94), and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Supervisor of Office of Records (1994-2007). Sister Anita has also ministered in Maryland, Illinois and California. Sister Joanne Cullins is a native of New Albany. Currently, she...
Sisters of Providence celebrating Jubilees
...in Orland Park, Ill. Sister Diane Mason Sister Diane, formerly Sister Ann Vianney, entered the Congregation on Sept. 18, 1961, from St. Dennis Parish in Lockport, Ill. She professed perpetual vows on April 17, 1971. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, while also obtaining master’s degrees in education and education supervision administration, both from Indiana State University. Sister Diane’s ministries include: Teacher, Immaculate Heart, Galesburg, Ill. (1966-68), Teacher, St. Thaddeus, Chicago (1968-69), Teacher, St. Leo,...
Sister Denise reflection: 2008 Rite of Commitment
General Superior Sister Denise Wilkinson receives the commitments of the new Providence Associates. On Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008, 32 candidate-associates made their first commitment as Providence Associates during the Rite of Commitment in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. During the Eucharistic Liturgy, 43 Providence Associates renewed their commitments. The following reflection was given by General Superior Sister Denise Wilkinson. I remember when Sister Mary Alice Zander and the Providence Associate Advisory Group were in the beginning stages of planning...
Sister Bernice Kuper
...congregation. The first change came after she had spent more than 15 years, “as every Sister of Providence did,” in elementary education she said. It was a surprise. But fulfilling the request from her general superior at the time was a challenge that she accepted gracefully. “Those were the days when we were given assignments. The general superior called me into her office one day and said that my next assignment would be here in this building (Owens Hall) in...
Sister Barbara Sheehan
...the way for the next. I have ministered as a secondary dean of girls and teacher, a medical technologist and pathology administrator, a medical center chaplain and CPE supervisor. I am now ministering as executive director and CPE supervisor in Urban CPE Consortium, Inc. in Chicago where I train persons for urban ministry among and with the most marginalized. I also minister as a spiritual companion. My encounters in this ministry are with persons of diverse religious faiths, diverse cultural...
Firmly rooted like the Woods
...mother superior is stiff and resistant to new ideas. However, by the end of the movie, the mother superior softens. “That is the perception people have,” Sister Maureen Abbott said, referring to the media’s portrayal of nuns as rigid. “Part of it is complimentary,” she said. The other part is not so flattering. Sister Maureen formed real-life impressions of women religious at an early age. In Buffalo, N.Y., where she was born, her family’s life centered on their parish. As...
In their own words: Sister Diane Ris
...It brought back the memory of the beatification [in 1998] — I was carrying up the relic at that time — and what a gift it was knowing that we were giving Mother Theodore’s bone to the universal Church and it will stay right there in Rome forever. Today, I wasn’t carrying the relic, Sister Ann Margaret [O’Hara, general superior from 2001-2006] was. Sister Nancy [Nolan, general superior from 1986-1996] and I were carrying candles; so we were lighting the...