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Remembering who we are and why we are here!
Note: The following is the reflection our General Superior, Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, provided during the 2023 Foundation Day Mass. The author Sue Monk Kidd has written, “Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.” We are here today because the story of our foundation is alive and well. We have been telling and retelling that story for 183 years now. How on Oct. 22, 1840, six...
‘We’re all grateful for your CONNECTION’
Note: The following is a reflection by General Superior, Sister Dawn Tomaszewski. She offered it during the 2023 Providence Associates Rite of Commitment Ceremony Saturday, Oct. 21. General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski speaking at the 2023 Providence Associates Rite of Commitment Ceremony on Oct. 21. The readings chosen for this Eucharistic Liturgy for the Rite of Commitment are certainly resplendent with images of nature. Planting and reaping, seeds and vine branches. Resplendent — I love that word. Resplendent is the...
Reflections for one of our Asian Sisters perpetual vows
Note: The following is a reflection offered by General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, SP, regarding the recent perpetual vows of one of our Asian Sisters of Providence. The Sisters of Providence are proud of our long history of overseas ministries and in order to protect our Sisters and their work, many details have been intentionally omitted from this story. “To be a perpetually professed member of the Sisters of Providence is the most important thing for me, no matter where...
Sister Carolyn Glynn (formerly Sister John Michael)
...that the superior, who had to write her a letter of recommendation, tried to convince her to join a diocesan community, so she would be closer to her large family. She tells of how her mother went with her to the convent and more or less told the superior in no certain terms: “I am the mother and I will take care of my children. If God is calling Caroline to the Sisters of Providence, we cannot interfere.” I might...
Newsnotes from HOPE winter 2024
...vocal music, director of the College Chorale and the director of the College Madrigals. Following her time at the school, she served in pastoral ministry. During the celebration in October, Sisters of Providence General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, SP, offered the blessing of the renaming, stating “May this Marie Brendan Harvey Auditorium and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, both unique in all the world, be the home of virtue, a shrine of knowledge.” Sisters, College unveil historic district sign marker A total...
Sister Leslie Dao professes first vows
...of Providence. Drawn In “I was drawn to the Sisters of Providence by the Charism, by the welcoming spirit, the gentle smile, the little caring note and the kind gestures,” she admitted. “They have led me to believe this is the right community; a community I would like to belong.” Sister Leslie Dao (center) professing first vows with General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski (left) and Father Terry Johnson. A native of Vietnam, Sister Leslie’s family immigrated to the United States...
A reflection on the first profession of vows by Sister Leslie Dao
Note: The following is the reflection offered by General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski as Sister Leslie Dao professed First Vows with the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. “Talitha cumi.” These are the words Jesus says to Jarius’s daughter in today’s Gospel reading — Talitha cumi —“Little girl, I say to you, arise.” Some sources translate the word Talitha as “Little Lamb” to indicate the tenderness with which Jesus engages with the child. Leslie, today on this first profession...
Land Justice
...States during colonization, there are a plethora of rules and beliefs still operating today throughout the world and within the U.S. government and society. Click on this link and watch in slow-motion the land size and population movement of the U.S. here: Indigenous Land Loss on Turtle Island. Repudiation – July of 2023. Pope Francis stunned many when he recently renounced cultural or racial superiority … the objectification or subjection of people. He strongly condemned any attitudes or actions that...
Reflections for Reception into the Novitiate
Welcome Sister Stephanie Rivas! Note: The following reflection was written by General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski for the entrance into the Novitiate by Sister Stephanie Rivas, which took place on August 18, 2024. After my first encounter with the reading that Stephanie chose for this rite of entrance into the novitiate, I said to myself: Hmmm, there is quite a bit of groaning going on in this reading. All creation is groaning … we also groan within ourselves … even...
Au revoir! Sister Paula Damiano retires from ministry
...at PSCC, Sister Paula served on the leadership team for the Congregation for 10 years. She has also ministered as a pastoral associate, congregation associate director of vocations and as a teacher. Sister Paula Damiano (left) cuts into the retirement cake as General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski looks on. She taught at the high school she attended prior to becoming a Sister of Providence: Marywood in Orange, California. “Although I only taught in the classroom during the first part of...
Get to know Providence Associate David Hudgens
...her class Senate. I attended Indiana State University and graduated with a degree in printing management and a minor in packaging technology. After college I was a production supervisor at Sony DADC and then North American Lighting, combined for more than 20 years. A little more than two years ago, I had an opportunity to advance in my career as a manufacturing engineer with Acuity Brands Lighting in Crawfordsville, Indiana. I thoroughly enjoy my job there. It gives me the...
Celebrating Grandparents’ Day
...my grandfather, had died in 1933 before I was born so I never met him. I so regret I never asked her to tell me about him. Family History What I do know is that he was a professional gardener, born in Balleyragget, County Kilkenny, Ireland. After moving to the United States, he married my grandmother in 1891. Two years after they were married, he became the first Superintendent of the Catholic Cemetery in Fort Wayne and they lived in...