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What have we to do in order to become saints?
Oct. 3, 2006:Tim Wilson and Tony Dubois, who constructed the casket for Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, place it on a base for display. Happy Feast! It’s good to be here with the usual suspects — SPs, Providence Associates, SP and PHC staff, colleagues and alumnae from SMWC, our close neighbors from the Village and West Terre Haute and Terre Haute. As always, we welcome all who have come to celebrate. It’s hard to believe that it has been five years...
Journals and Letters week 39: The loving guidance of a mother
...commenting that good bread and some Bordeaux wine are available. The delightfully amusing story centers on a trip to Terre Haute that Mother Theodore makes with Sisters St. Francis and Mary Joseph to arrange for a daguerreotype of Sister St. Francis that will be sent to Mme. Le Fer. The purpose of the trip was not disclosed until they had been underway for some time. And, of course, Sister St. Francis needed to be convinced to agree. Mother Theodore was...
Tiny Tim: security at the Woods
...O’Dwyer, as a member of the Terre Haute city police force, has patrolled Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College grounds. He wears the city police badge on the chest of his blue uniform and on his sleeve are the gold stripes signifying forty years of service. “The most Irish member of the Terre Haute police force is a friend of every Woods girl. ‘I know all the girls, I can pick a St. Mary’s girl out anywhere. I see them come and go...
Sister Adrian Marie Conrad
...up duties as Campus Director at Ladywood-St. Agnes High School in Indianapolis for a year. Then, after four years at Sacred Heart in Terre Haute, she served as Administrative Secretary during the first years of Cathedral High School’s operations. In 1978, Adrian moved to California to take up duties as Director of Maintenance at Marywood, Orange. However, the year had barely begun when the announcement was made that this would be the last year of a full four-year high school....
Sister Adele Mann
...Indiana at St. Jude, Fort Wayne; St. Joseph, St. James and St. Philip Neri, Indianapolis; and St. Patrick, Terre Haute. Sister Adele spent four years in pastoral ministry at St. Francis Hospital, Beech Grove, Ind. After earning her CPE at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center, San Francisco, Sister Adele returned to Beech Grove and served as a pastoral associate at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center. She spent 20 years as a chaplain at either St. Joseph Hospital or Lutheran...
Missionary spirit of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...final destination; they were going to a village called Saint Mary-of-the-Woods outside of Terre Haute. As they left Vincennes for Terre Haute, they were cautioned that it had been raining for 36 straight hours. The roads were muddy and treacherous. At one time the carriage filled with water, and the horses were swimming rather than running. Mother Theodore wrote in her diary that she felt very calm even in the face of death. “When one has nothing more to lose...
Sister Barbara Doherty, former SMWC president, passes away
...had a very creative side of her in designing programs,” said Sister Denise Wilkinson, who ministered at the college alongside Sister Barbara. “She was willing to take risks, like Sister Jeanne before her. Her dedication to the college was unbelievable.” Sister Barbara Doherty (right) with a Providence Health Care nurse during an outing at Deming Park in Terre Haute. During her time as president of SMWC, enrollment at the college increased and she helped foster new programs including the Student...
Forty Hours Devotion a solemn tradition for Sisters of Providence
...16. It opened with the usual solemnity, the sisters replacing one another before the beautifully decorated altar. The Terre Haute sisters returned to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and the Congregation was in retreat. On one day only, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, foundress of the Sisters of Providence, was able to join them. The next morning during Mass, she was taken so ill that she had to leave the chapel. She died about two months later. Below is a list of times for...
Oral History: Sister Carol Nolan
...the Terre Haute Symphony as a student, to meet and be with people who were in the field of music. “We were made for God. The human spirit is lured by holiness.” — Christine Vladimiroff, OSB Made for God or not, with other family members in the community or committed to it, Carol remained adamant in her feelings about the community: “I had no interest.” Discerning the Future But long days of practice in a conservatory can be meditative, with...
Blessing, dedication of Georgetown campus Oct. 1
...local agencies and organizations to provide need-based services; licensed group homes for foster children; family reunification and preservation shelter and case management; apartments for individuals and couples age 62 and older with limited incomes; a senior citizens center; assisted living and skilled nursing care; and a clinic. It is now in its 17th year and has served more than 17,000 individuals and families in Southeastern Indiana and Terre Haute. “We have never dedicated the entire campus here at Georgetown and...
Sister of Providence authors new book on healing touch therapy
...let it touch your soul.” Sister Betty, who ministers as chaplain at Hux Cancer Center in Terre Haute, has clinical certification in healing touch. “I once developed some workshops, retreats and talks on the healing touch of Jesus. I used to talk about some history of touch, and I talked about good touch, bad touch. I talk about all of those ideas in the book,” Sister Betty said. “I wrote an article some time ago in one of our community...
The Other Five: A brief look at the lives of the sisters who came from France in 1840 with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...yet was placed in charge of the Academy, the forerunner of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Her first mission away from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods was at Jasper, where she traveled with Saint Mother Theodore to open a parish school in March, 1842. She later took over as superior in Madison (1847-1848), a community that was not welcoming to Catholics at the time. She returned to Terre Haute to build St. Vincent Academy, then on to Fort Wayne, and back to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Village...