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Sister Mary Catherine Guiler
...on them I wanted to be a Holy Cross sister. However, my reason was superficial: I loved their habit (full disclosure: I have always been vain!). It was just assumed that at graduation the girls would attend the Academy of the Holy Cross, then in Washington, D.C., and very easy to reach by public transportation. However, in the mid-l950s it moved to a suburban and somewhat rural Maryland. Public transportation was not good so when I was ready for high...
Q and A: The new cosmology: a Providence perspective
...God and the world and to re-examine the dualistic terms like nature-grace, natural-supernatural. 3.) Have you followed the ongoing conversation between the theologians and the scientists? If so, what are some of the questions/ideas/hopes that have arisen for you? Sister Jan: Yes, I have followed the ongoing conversation between these two disciplines. As I walked into the study hall, my first day as a postulant, there on my desk was a copy of the Vatican II Documents and the Dutch...
Sister Rose Ann Eaton
...of citizens demanding change and questioning authority. And, change was happening so rapidly that the Sisters of Providence stopped accepting postulants for a couple of years. One day, Sister Rose Ann received a visit from the general superior, Sister Mary Pius Regnier, who asked Sister Rose Ann if she would become the director of postulants for the Congregation. Well, for the older generations of sisters in those days, “asked” meant this is your new assignment. To the younger sisters, “asked”...
Sister Ann Margaret O’Hara
Current ministry: General Superior Years in the Congregation: 51 years Something I’ve always wanted to do is: dance Sister Ann Margaret O’Hara’s five-year term as general superior of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is moving toward its end. She has been in a leadership position for most of her 51 years as a Sister of Providence, giving her somewhat of a unique perspective on vowed religious life. She likes to embrace passionately the future, thinking about what might...
Sister Nancy Nolan
...and helped and gave tips along the way. Q. You have the experience of being general superior, an experience that few sisters have had. What was that like for you? A. Certainly, it was the greatest privilege of my life. I felt very honored to be in that position. And I said many times that it probably was the best 10 years of my life. It was during that time that we celebrated our sesquicentennial, which, I think, was a...
Civil War diary entries
Unidentified Federal soldiers (Photo credit: The Library of Congress) In the Sisters of Providence Archives there is a bound transcription of the diary of General Superior Mother Mary Cecilia Bailly. She served as general superior after the death of Mother Theodore Guerin in 1856 until 1868, covering the turbulent years of the Civil War, 1861-1865. The diary consists of entries about the day-to-day activities of Mother Mary Cecilia, the Congregation and local and national happenings. Some entries are very short...
Sister Eileen Mary Cunningham
...Infirmary,” said Sister Jenny. Sister Eileen Mary professed first and perpetual vows Aug. 15, 1941, and Jan. 23, 1947, respectively. After ministering in the Infirmary, Sister Eileen Mary worked for short stints at Lady Isle, Portsmouth, N.H., and Immaculata Seminary, Washington, D.C. She also ministered and studied at St. Vincent Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. Later she returned to the Infirmary where she served in several capacities including nurse, head nurse and supervisor. “Being a nurse in the Infirmary was never...
The Le Fer sisters: Gifts to the Congregation
...aptitude for the schoolroom, no fitness, apparently, for any kind of work.” When Mother Mary Lecor, superior general of the Sisters of Providence of France, wrote to Mother Theodore to let her know that Sister St. Francis was coming she said, “‘You will see, my Theodore, that she is good for nothing but to love God.’ Fourteen years later, after sister’s death, she wrote: ‘I was mistaken, I was in truth mistaken.’ Although Sister St. Francis never developed domestic ability,...
Sister Maureen Fallon
...middle of September, so that was not a good thing. But it was a very challenging class, and I did the best that I could considering I was green as grass. And then when I was a novice I was discerning with a superior, and I said, “I don’t want to teach.” And she said, “Well, what do you want to do?” and I said, “I don’t have any idea, but I don’t know how to teach, I can’t teach,...
Sister Bernice Kuper (formerly Sister Ann Bernice)
...perhaps has had the most profound effect on the Sisters of Providence. In 1961 Bernice was appointed to be a “novitiate sister.” In 1962 she became director of postulants and in 1964 became director of novices – a position she held until August 1969. I’m sure when she left the ministry of formation in 1969 she was certain she had done her stint, her share. But Providence, through then General Superior Nancy Nolan, had other plans. Sister Bernice offers spiritual...
Sister Denise Wilkinson recognized as a ‘Woman of Influence’
This year, Sister Denise Wilkinson has been recognized as a Women of Influence. The women will be honored during an annual breakfast, scheduled for 7:30 a.m., Thursday, April 10. Sister Denise Wilkinson, general superior for the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind., has been named, along with others, as a “Woman of Influence.” “I received a letter from the Wabash Valley Women of Influence committee saying that I had been nominated by Dr. Dottie King and Dee Reed (from...
Sister Marie Kevin Tighe
...Chicago and the superior instructed the others to “just keep walking as if you don’t know her.” Marie Kevin’s passion and persistence for the corporate renewal process never died down. Every five years, when the Sisters of Providence had a General Chapter, the general superior and her council almost came to expect that Marie Kevin would want to talk to them about the process that was going to be used. She was always concerned that the community was on the...