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Gifts that keep on giving
...Dawn both worked on the school newspaper at Guerin, and Sister Cathy was their advisor. Still using those yearbook skills of old: Sister Cathy takes notes at a meeting in 2015. Sister Cathy was in her first ministry as a Sister of Providence. She was teaching journalism and English. As a first-time teacher, Sister Cathy invested much of her time in finding out what the interests of her students were and incorporating them into lessons. She enjoyed teaching in ways...
Crossing the bridge into community: Postulant Stephanie Rivas
...time. We fill spare time with noise. The best part about where I live is that there is a chapel where I can go pray and be with Jesus anytime throughout my day or night.” Community Stephanie also values the intergenerational living she finds in the community of the Sisters of Providence. She enjoys engaging with younger sisters from a variety of backgrounds and with older sisters “who have done this for many years.” She values their wisdom and their...
Leaving a Legacy: John and Sue Heck
...family visited Sister Celine Therese in Lourdes, one of the nurses gave their son Otto, a toddler at the time, his very first cookie. When John was a young boy, his brother Bill recalls a time before 6:30 a.m. Mass (and breakfast provided by the Sisters), that John had already gone fishing and returned to go to Mass. Fishing was a lifelong passion that John continued with his three grown sons. Sharing Prayer and Encouragement Our connections with others allow...
Christmas Mourning
...continues to deepen my enduring bond with those I love who are now with God. I believe that the holidays can be a difficult time for anyone who is grieving the loss of a loved one because holidays are traditionally times when families get together and celebrate their own traditions which can intensify the sense of loss of family members who are no longer alive and able to be part of the family holiday traditions. Often, holiday memories associated with...
Sister Ruth Ellen Doane
...to give it a try!” Sister Ruth Ellen Doane and Providence Associate Linda McMahon chat during a social time. Renee Kallok recently reflected that whenever she and Paul Adams visited Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ruth was always there to greet them, most times on her scooter. Renee said of Ruth Ellen: “She was most loyal, attending so many of the PSM celebrations in downtown Chicago. And of course, she brought the Christian Awakening retreat to PSM, which we used with our seniors...
Volunteer college students #Represent @theWoods!
...the internship program is living on campus in community with other interns, participating in enrichment activities and working full-time in the gardens. Emma likes to run and paint in her spare time. But probably not at the same time! RHIT Student Volunteer Evan Rose-Hulman student Evan Hailing from St. Louis, Evan is a junior mechanical engineering major at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT). After college, he hopes to work in product management. When thinking about his time at RHIT,...
Sister Maureen Ann McCarthy
Sister Maureen Ann McCarthy A reading from the Prophet Daniel: “The angel wearing linen clothes said, “At that time the great angel Michael, who guards your people will appear. Then there will be a time of troubles, the worst since nations first came into existence. When that time comes, all the people of your nation whose names are written in God’s book will be saved. Many of those who have already died will live again: some will enjoy eternal life,...
Sister Mary Patricia Cummings (formerly Sister Marie Janice)
...mother feared this would be the last time they would all be together. Sister Mary Julia solved the problem by deciding she and Mary Pat would run in fast for the photo and run out just as fast. When the time came, Mary Pat reports, “She turned to me in her assertive, big-sister manner and said ‘Get in!’” The famous photograph remains a family treasure. In those days, sisters had to attend college in the summers, so, while teaching full-time...
Sister Michaela Galvin
...BVM. Since it was such a short time since she had left home, as a return address on her letters, she would write Convent of Our Lady, for fear neighbors might suspect she was actually at a home for unwed mothers. After her second novitiate, in February 1951, she returned to Chicago, this time at St. Leo. Sister Janet Gilligan, at the time a St. Leo’s sixth-grader, recalled that when the superior came in to introduce Michaela, she started by...
Grandma’s rituals: Holy Week & Easter 2013
...from death to new life. Quiet presence is a profound gift — to anyone and at any time. Grandma’s tradition of breaking her fast has given me a sense of quiet celebrations, simple gestures to mark passing from one “time” to another — in this case from a time of penance and self-denial to a time of rejoicing and abundance. The lamb cake’s significance I learned the hard way. One time, Grandma asked me if I knew why she baked...
Oral History: Sister Carol Nolan
...English language to students. Her time with them sounds as much like an adventure as the job it was. “I brought literature to them. I took ‘Casey At the Bat’ and ‘The Cremation of Sam McGhee’.” Her students didn’t understand baseball, a game not widely played in Austria at that time. So she explained it to them as her father had explained football to his children. They got it! She isn’t sure they really understood the poem about Sam McGhee,...
Oral history: Sister Joyce Brophy, inspiring confidence in others
...women who were happy all the time and knew all the students by name. She loved them dearly. In fact, the first time she made a May shrine when she was teaching it looked exactly like her first grade teacher’s had looked. Her bulletin boards? The same. It was a testament to what they had provided her in grade school. What she didn’t want at that time was to become a nun. Decisions “My sister had gentle leadership qualities. I...