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Immaculata High School time capsule from 1955 to be opened Saturday
...Golf and Country Club, Bethesda, Maryland. For more information, log on to ImmaculataDC.org. About the Sisters of Providence The Sisters of Providence, a congregation of 214 women religious, with 300 Providence Associates, collaborate with others to create a more just and hope-filled world through prayer, education, service and advocacy. The Sisters of Providence have their motherhouse at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, located just northwest of downtown Terre Haute, Ind., which is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Saint Mother...
SPs through the years
...Sister Georgiana Terstegge on the motherhouse grounds of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Sister Georgiana, a Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College professor, established the SMWC Tree Club in 1972 with annual dues of one dollar to help keep the motherhouse grounds forested. The first Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto was celebrated Feb. 11, 1928. The grotto was built as a replica of the Lourdes grotto in France. Le Fer Hall, built in 1924, is in the background. A Sister of Providence in...
A pleasant sounding instrument
...to be a pleasant sounding instrument, bringing her students to a fuller understanding of God in their lives by loving them first and then teaching them. GUERIN PREP… is a Catholic, co-educational college preparatory high school. was founded in 1962 by the Congregation as an all-girls school. became coeducational in 2004. has honors and gifted programs. has 30 clubs/organizations and seven honor societies. has an exceptional fine arts program. Students must take fine arts classes as a requirement for graduation....
Sister Cathy White
...was an earlier call to go to medical school. Sister Cathy was born on a dairy farm in West Chester, Pa., one of four children in her family. She attended parochial schools throughout her life. She was involved in many school activities, including “anything to do with music.” She performed with the concert band, marching band and drama department. At Immaculata College where she majored in biology, she was in the glee club. “I truly thought I’d go to medical...
Sister Barbara Sheehan
...the Congregation’s Anti-Racism Team, a mentor for a newer member, a book-clubber with five other sisters, a member of a Congregation’s spiritual direction group, and a companion with a Providence Associate member. I have come to understand that part of my call is shaping community and being shaped by community through the challenges and the joys. I continually go back to my days at St. Philip School where I learned that church is about being where the people are. The...
Providence Family Services Volunteer Sister Dorothy Gartland receives Guerin Outreach Ministries Leadership and Advocacy Award
Sister Patricia Fillenwarth, SP, director of Providence Family Services and president of the board of directors for Guerin Outreach Ministries presents Sister Dorothy Gartland, SP, at left with the Guerin Outreach Ministries Leadership and Advocacy Award in recognition of her 14 years of volunteer service organizing and running the afterschool homework club at Providence Family Services in Chicago. Board member Sue Heck of West Terre Haute at right looks on. What does a woman who spent her life bringing about...
Love of sports fuels Sister Joni Luna
...of basketball at Incarnate World College in San Antonio,” she added. Currently, she coaches a club volleyball team and a group of volleyball and basketball players in grades three through six at St. Patrick School, where she also serves as assistant principal. And during the month of June, Sister Joni and others will host both a volleyball and basketball camp. The basketball camp will take place from 9 to 11 a.m., on June 6-8, while the volleyball camp will take...
Sister Ann Miriam Zell
...these years, it was a source of joy to her to continue her many contacts with students, parents and parishioners. She joined a senior citizen club and was a member of a mission circle. With advancing years her vision and hearing had become more and more limited, but that didn’t prevent her from phoning parishioners who were sick or alone,” said Sister Alexa. In 2000, Sister Ann Miriam returned to the Woods for a ministry of prayer. Sister Alexa shared,...
Sister Jane Bodine (formerly Sister Janet)
...available to the truly poor.” For her dedication to this ministry, she was awarded the Service of Mankind Award by the Sertoma Club of Downtown Indianapolis, the first given to a woman religious. It was noted of Jane in the presentation, “Her service over the years has been sacramental: An outward, visible sign of inner spirituality, based on caring for the human condition. She has a uniquely personal touch in her dealings with all people … Sister Jane Bodine personifies...
Volunteer Spotlight – Karen Hoffman
...I have volunteered since high school. I participated in Project Linus, made tie-blankets for Riley Children’s Hospital; Key Club, volunteered throughout Fort Wayne; Biotechnology team, taught children about science; and volunteered at Saint Anne’s Nursing Home. As a volunteer at Providence Health Care, I have played ball toss and bingo with the residents. Sister Rose Marita Riordin, in February, gets help from Karen in the kitchen What is the best part about volunteering? I really enjoy volunteering because I like...
Deep love and healing
...been here for an extended period of time … I never really, until now, got to really experience the density of this place, the holiness of this place.” It took another tragedy to prompt Ezra explore the White Violet internship. On June 12, his friend Drew was killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. “I felt a great need to go away and disconnect,” he said. In addition to his responsibilities on the farm working with the chickens, alpacas...
What has happened to us since that first Thanksgiving?
...Standing Rock Sioux Indians. There is imminent fear of drinking water contamination. But by going to North Dakota, Joni also realized the sad truth: That this is not just an environmental crisis. Bulldozers have already destroyed sacred grounds. The representatives of more than 60 various tribes, who call themselves water protectors, not protestors, have been threatened or harmed by use of billy clubs, rubber bullets and tear gas and/or arrested by armed riot police guarding ongoing pipeline construction. This, of...