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‘We’re all grateful for your CONNECTION’
...with each other and is calling Associates along with the Sisters of Providence to be instruments of peace and give hope.” Responding to your call You are not joining a club today or becoming a card-carrying member of an organization. You are responding to a call to deepen your connection to the Holy One. And the conduit of this connection is the mission entrusted to us by a Provident God. So many of you are already cheerful givers, mission-minded. You...
Come out to the Fall Volunteer Open House
...hours, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Volunteer Services works with individuals and volunteer groups! Do you have a sports team, club or organization, work committee, bible study, or another group that would like to volunteer? We have many group opportunities year-round! The Sisters of Providence also host college alternative fall and spring break service trips. As the Volunteer Coordinator, I will be available to answer any questions and help potential volunteers apply right there and then. The application process...
A reflection for the Providence Associate Commitment Ceremony
...Joy Club at that parish). Sister Anne Therese Falkenstein at the 2022 Providence Associate Commitment Ceremony. As the other general officers and I worked through your letters, we were touched by your own desire to grow more deeply in your spiritual life – to grow within, to be transformed, by being more intentional about prayer, more reliant on God’s Providence, more focused on your relationship with the Holy One. You want to show up and be present in your own...
Hunger Bust Fun Run/Walk nets more than $9,000
...located in Vigo County, and Christ Cathedral in Indianapolis. In addition, the Young Men’s Club of West Terre Haute has been a regular benefactor and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has also provided funds. Sister Joseph said the pantry will conduct its annual Rummage Sale from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., on Oct. 22 at the pantry. Providence Food Pantry, located at 701 W. National Ave., West Terre Haute, Ind., is open every Thursday from 8-10:30 a.m. For more information, call...
Sister Eileen Clare Goetzen
...the Daughters of Charity for five years. Then, the Servite Fathers added two apartments to their monastery, one for the Servite Sisters and one for the Sisters of Providence. While at Sorrows, Eileen taught religion to grades 3-6, and did parish work as well, managing the food pantry and also handling the Dollar-a-Month Club. If someone needed food at any time, she would get it for them, regardless of whether it was office hours or not. It was once said...
Get to know Providence Associate Candace Minster
...What are you passionate about and why? I’m passionate about all sorts of things! If I had to sum up what motivates me into a neat little package, I would say it’s justice work, specifically environmental justice and racial justice. The natural world has been a source of inspiration, awe and renewal for me my whole life. (In third grade, I helped found our elementary school’s first environmental club and begin a recycling program. Never tell a child they’re too young to...
Sister Elizabeth Grannan
...and how they would often take her with them on their dates. Two of her brothers were lifeguards at the local swimming pool and she would be their mascot. Betty attended St. Simon Grade School and Washington Catholic High School in Washington, Ind. In high school, Betty was active in the Glee Club and the Sodality. She was also business manager of the high school newspaper. After graduation, she worked as a receptionist for her uncle who was a dentist....
Sister Carol Nolan to be honored
...as their Volunteer of the Year. “Of course I replied affirmatively to both questions,” Sister Carol said. “I feel very honored to have been chosen as Volunteer of the Year.” The event is scheduled to take place at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Providence in the Desert is a program of Guerin Outreach Ministries. The ministry was established in 2002 by Sister Carol. She said in 1996, the Sisters of Providence had considered ministering in Mexico....
Spotlight on Bethany Church
...congregation supports several missions in addition to the pantry, including Helping Hands in West Terre Haute. They also collect eye glasses for the Lions Club and dental products for St. Ann’s Clinic in Terre Haute (now known as the Wabash Valley Health Center). Rita, who has been a member of the Bethany Church since she was a fourth grader, believes her church has a strong sense of mission. According to Rita, helping the pantry just seems like the right thing...
Sister Conrad Monrad
...for Mathematics Clubs.” Sister Conrad wrote an article for it titled, “Infinity and Transfinite Numbers,” that includes such topics as Denumerable Sets and the Cardinality of Infinite Sets. (Sounds like Greek to me!) More than twenty years later, Lindsay Pacheco, a young woman who lived in Maine, came across the article, which piqued her interest in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and its author with the unusual name. Lindsey enrolled in the WED program, until the last semester of her senior year,...
Sister Patty Fillenwarth
...She taught for one year then served as principal for 15 at Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary School in the West Humboldt Park area. Sister Patty Fillenwarth chats with a student from the afterschool homework club at Providence Family Services in Chicago where Sister Patty ministers as both the director and a counselor. Something new By 1992 Sister Patty was ready for a change. She had noticed an unmet need for affordable Spanish speaking counseling services among the families...
Sister Mary Montgomery
...He taught us all how to swim. That was the neighborhood gathering place, but we couldn’t do it without mom and dad there, of course. Summer softball games at the conservation club is a good memory. I loved to play house under the grape arbor, ice skating in winter. Q. Of all the things that you learned from your parents, what do you believe was the most important? A. That’s a really good question because there are so many things;...