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Sister Eleanor Bussing
...Illinois classrooms included St. Sylvester, Maternity BVM, St. Mark, St. Mel, St. Andrew and Immaculate Conception, Chicago; and St. Joseph, Galesburg. In Indiana, she ministered at St. Malachy, Brownsburg. She spent one year as activities director of Providence Retirement Home, New Albany, Ind., before returning to education as the supervisor of open study at Mother Theodore Guerin High School, River Grove, Ill., for 11 years. As Sister Ruth Eileen explained, this supervisory position was a little trying. “By her own...
First chapel visited by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin on her arrival at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to be re-created
...ago in Rome by Pope Benedict XVI. “We are so very delighted that this project will become reality. Several people have been involved in moving this project forward and the recent donation from David and Faye Masterson helped us bring it all together,” said Sister Denise Wilkinson, general superior of the Sisters of Providence. “The re-creation of this log chapel will give our friends, companions and all of our visitors an opportunity to learn what life might have been like...
13 Sisters of Providence celebrate 50th anniversary
...Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in education. She received a master’s degree in education from Indiana State University and a master’s degree in education supervision and administration from Indiana State University. Indiana ministries: None. Ministries elsewhere: Galesburg, Ill.: teacher, Immaculate Heart School (1966-1968). Chicago: teacher, St. Thaddeus School (1968-1969); St. Leo School (1969-1970); St. Francis Borgia School (1970-1973). Palos Heights, Ill.: teacher (1973-1978), assistant principal (1978) and principal (1978-2003), St. Alexander School. Oak Lawn, Ill.: chaplain intern, Advocate for...
Three Sisters of Providence arrested in Georgia for participation in non-violent protest at Army base
...guilty. Bail was set at $5,000 each, 10 percent allowable. A trial date was set for Jan. 27, 2003. “We, the General Council of the Sisters of Providence, respect the choice of conscience of our sisters and support them with our love and our prayer,” said General Superior Sister Ann Margaret O’Hara. “It is only through courageous acts such as theirs that others can be made aware of what the military arm of our government is doing in our names....
Providence Family Services Volunteer Sister Dorothy Gartland receives Guerin Outreach Ministries Leadership and Advocacy Award
...education and justice do in her retirement? Well if it’s Sister Dorothy Gartland of Providence Family Services in Chicago, she does more of the same. Sister Dorothy, 81, a member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in Indiana, spent her younger years as a school teacher, a principal and a religious superior. She then went on to co-found the 8th Day Center for Justice in Chicago, where she dealt with issues from poverty and the nuclear arms race...
Sister Amadeus Rolinger
...handicapped adults. During her last four years in Freeport, she was community supervisor for handicapped adults at the same facility. During this time she lived in a group home for women with mental challenges, supervising their daily living in a community established in a former convent at St. Mary Parish where as a child she had attended school,” continued Sister Mary Roger. Sister Amadeus returned to the Woods in 1986, where she provided various services to the Congregation until her...
A remarkable woman
...Mass after a 60-day voyage across a stormy Atlantic, she wrote: “While shedding an abundance of tears, we renewed the consecration of ourselves for the mission to which God had deigned to call us.” The mission given to her by her superiors in France was to establish a novitiate in the Diocese of Vincennes, Ind., and to open an academy for the education of young women and girls. Mother Theodore had not volunteered for the foreign mission because of her...
Shouldn’t all sisters wear habits?
...a kind of “hybrid” form of religious life, which prevailed in congregations of women religious founded to be apostolic, until the 1950s. At this time, Pope Pius XII directed the world’s religious superiors to begin the modernization of their congregations. He specifically urged simplification of habits, laying aside of outmoded customs, and the ongoing education of members. These beginnings of renewal and adaptation of religious life culminated in Vatican Council II, called by Pope John XXIII in 1962. One of...
A centennial celebration
...her superiors in France: “The Church! Yes, dear friends, that is the dwelling of the God of the Universe, in comparison with which the stables wherein you shelter your cattle are palaces!” The current place of worship for the Congregation began with the laying of the cornerstone of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in 1886. D.A. Bohlen and Son of Indianapolis, architects, completed the Indiana limestone building in 1891, but it took 16 more years before the interior was...
A rest for weary bones
Father Daniel Hopcus (upper left) rests his hands on the coffin of Saint Mother Theodore to bless the remains. The hand in the foreground belongs to General Superior Sister Denise Wilkinson. “And Moses took with him the bones of Joseph, who had required a solemn oath of the Israelites, saying, ‘God will surely take notice of you, and then you must carry my bones with you from here.’” (Exodus 13:10) When Saint Mother Theodore Guerin breathed her last breath upon...
New Log Cabin Chapel at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to be dedicated and blessed on Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s feast day, Oct. 3
...the primitive conditions that greeted the sisters when they came to their new home in a dense Indiana forest. Some modifications were necessary to accommodate current safety standards, including provisions for access persons who are physically challenged. “This is a charming addition to the heritage and tradition that our historic grounds offer now,” said Sister Denise Wilkinson, general superior of the Sisters of Providence. “We believe this chapel will be very popular with children who want to experience a bit...
Keith Ruble honored for care of creation
“Be a shelter to someone,” Keith Ruble reads from the book “The Things Trees Know” in acknowledging the trees planted in his honor near the log cabin chapel at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Father John Bamman, right, of Saint Joseph University Parish and Sister Denise Wilkinson, left, general superior of the Sisters of Providence, members of the media and friends look on. To see Keith Ruble in his element, one has only to accompany him into nature. His love for and wisdom...