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Reflection for a Celebration of Commitment
Note: General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski offered this reflection at the celebration of commitment liturgy on June 25, 2022. During a recent meeting of our leadership team, one of our teammates recapped a conversation she had with one of our 90-year-old sisters. In describing her life, this sister told her general officer, “My calling now is to bring joy.” That statement alone brought joy to my heart and certainly put a smile on my face. To think that someone in...
A reflection for Reception into the Novitiate
Note: On Sunday, August 14, we received Sister Leslie Tiephu Dao into the novitiate. Here is the reflection our General Superior, Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, offered during the celebration. Even before Leslie Dao arrived at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods for her entrance as a postulant, I knew she was a plant lover! Your reputation preceded you, Leslie! So, I laid out this plot that at the end of the meeting I was to have with her this spring, in preparation for her reception...
Sister Leslie Dao enters the novitiate
Sister Leslie Dao is officially a novice with the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods! Sister Leslie entered the novitiate on Aug. 14, 2022, in the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Click here to read General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski’s reflection from the ceremony. During the next year, Sister Leslie will study Scripture, Congregation and Church history, and develop a deeper connection to God, her community and the world. Learn more about the process of becoming a...
Reflections for Profession of Perpetual Vows
Note: On Saturday, August 20, 2022, Sister Tracey Horan and Sister Arrianne Whittaker professed perpetual vows as Sisters of Providence. Here is the reflection General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, SP, offered during the celebration. See photos from the ceremony here. Sisters Tracey and Arrianne have offered us many powerful words and images to reflect upon today as we gather to celebrate their perpetual profession of vows as Sisters of Providence. Among them are these from Isaiah: “Look, I am doing...
Reflections for the Silver Jubilee of Sister Evelyn Ovalles
Note: On Sunday, August 21, 2022, we celebrated Sister Evelyn Ovalles’ Silver Jubilee in the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Here is the reflection General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski offered during the celebration. MABUHAY Evelyn, as we celebrate your silver jubilee as a Sister of Providence. Mabuhay is a Filipino greeting that literally means “long live,” or come alive. Sister Editha Ben, my mentor for all things Filipino, led me to this phrase when I asked for...
A Reflection for the 2022 Senior Jubilee
Note: If you didn’t get a chance to watch the livestream of our 2022 Senior Jubilee celebration, here is the reflection General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski offered during Mass. We need days like today! We need days like today in the life of our Church and in the life of this Providence Community. Days when we remember that God’s incarnate love needs our YES! On this feast of the Immaculate Conception, we hear once again the young Mary respond to...
Oral history: The little things with Sister Lois Ann Stoiber
...teacher was scolded by her superior before school.” That attitude of understanding has stuck with this Sister of Providence through the years. It was fostered at home by loving parents. “When I was a teenager I never wanted to disappoint them. I’d tell my mother something and she’d say, ‘That’s all right, Lois, I understand.’ When I stood at her coffin I remembered that so well…‘That’s all right, Lois, I understand.’” Parents who picked up another family in the neighborhood...
Newsnotes from winter 2023 HOPE magazine
Celebrating 60, 70 and 75 years We celebrated our Sisters of Providence senior jubilarians Dec. 8 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sisters of Providence who celebrated 75 years with the Congregation include (front, from left) Sister Joyce Brophy, Sister Lucille Nolan and Sister Margaret Heese. They are photographed with the General Council, including (back, from left) Sister Carole Kimes, Sister Laura Parker, General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, Vicar Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp and Sister Anne Therese Falkenstein Sisters of Providence celebrating 70 years...
Gifts that keep on giving
...former teacher, Sister Cathy Campbell, SP, and her former Guerin classmate (and now general superior of the Sisters of Providence) Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, SP. “I consider my years at Guerin to have been some of my best educational experiences. Guerin was a vibrant place full of creative energy, and it seemed everyone was gifted in some way. We had excellent teachers who cared about us and nurtured us toward productive adult lives,” Mary Ellen said. Showing appreciation She and Sister...
Sister Adele Beacham (formerly Sister Joseph Therese)
...from SMWC, and later a Master’s degree in reading from Cardinal Stritch College in Milwaukee. In the 80s, she earned a second Master’s degree in theology from St. Meinrad’s. Her education ministries of nearly 30 years, included elementary teacher, principal and school supervisor for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. She then served in parish ministry as pastoral associate and religious educator for some 19 years. All her ministries were in Indiana and Illinois. Sister Betty Hopf recalled in her second year...
Rejoice with us: A Silver Jubilee Reflection
Note: The following is the reflection General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, SP, provided for the Silver Jubilee celebration on Saturday, August 19, honoring Sisters Anji Fan and Sue Paweski for 25 years as Sisters of Providence. It seems to me that there is no better way to mark this silver jubilee celebration of Sisters Anji Fan and Susan Paweski than to use the words of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin that they themselves chose to have read to us this afternoon....
Sisters, SMWC unveil historic district sign marker
An event six years in the making culminated on Monday, Sept. 25, as many Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, joined administrators from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) to unveil the official sign marker for the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Historic District. Because of the distinction, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is officially listed in the National Register of Historic Places. During the unveiling, Sisters of Providence General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, SP, along with Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett and SMWC Interim President Brennan...