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Sister Betty Hopf honored with Sunshine Award
...quarterly award. “Sister Betty was actually nominated by a former patient at the Hux Cancer Center,” Mandi said. “She’s very compassionate. Some of the words used by the patient included warm, gracious and immediately endearing.” Sister Betty received a certificate and a banner was hung at the entrance of the Hux Cancer Center. “I absolutely love my ministry,” Sister Betty said. “I feel like I’m making a difference in peoples’ lives. They are dealing with so much. They love the...
1 Church 1 Family: Catholic Public Witness for Immigrants
...Those making the trip stopped by the Clay County Courthouse and Clay County Justice Center where they joined many others for the 1 Church 1 Family: Catholic Public Witness for Immigrants prayer vigil rally. The vigil was part of the National Catholic Public Witness for immigrants, with many events taking place nationwide. The Sisters joined other as they gathered in prayerful, nonviolent witness to God’s love for migrants near the Clay County Justice Center, which is an ICE detention center....
A day in the life … Sister Rose Marita Riordan
Sister Rose Marita Riordan cleans up following a meeting at the Providence Spirituality and Conference Center. While Sister Rose Marita Riordan may be 93 years young, she still hasn’t officially “retired.” Sister Rose Marita spent more than 50 years in education, including three stints as a principal in North Carolina and Washington, D.C. She came back to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1990 after “retiring.” “The question was, what was I going to do?” Sister Rose Marita said. “There were a lot...
Reflections on Shrine for Saint Mother Theodore
...the opening. Sister Nancy Nolan speaks with a group starting their tour of the Shrine. Two Schulte high school alums are interviewed by a local television reporter Jon Swanter about their experience in the shrine. Staff member Jena Thralls-Robertson chats with her mother, Kim Thralls, and her Aunt Carol Thralls during the Shrine opening. Sister Dorothy Rache and a visitor. Sister Editha Ben, center, meets a group of pilgrims ready to take a shrine tour. Sister Kathleen Kelly chats with...
A Note from Sister Barbara Battista, April 9, 2024
We asked Sister of Providence, Barbara Battista, how she chose the Peace Learning Center of Indianapolis (PLC) to offer an in-service workshop on Implicit Bias. “Well, that was not a difficult decision at all! Many of our Sisters are familiar with the Center and have also participated in their training and have served on committees. We have professional relationships with many of the staff members at the Peace Learning Center. In particular, we know that we learn by doing and...
Sister Dorothy Gartland: neighborhood ministry making a difference
...of a center to serve the people in the neighborhood began 20 years ago. The first year offered bilingual counseling. English as a Second Language (ESL) classes began the next fall. The following school year the after school homework program began. When I took over the homework program the next year, a wonderful new world opened for me. Not only did it bring me into the lives of the women working the Center as counselors and the teachers of ESL,...
Sister Patricia Linehan
...by her parents, especially her father whose Catholicism was at the center of his life and by the Ursuline Sisters at Holy Names Parish. During her early years, Pat and her older sister became, in Pat’s words, “best of friends who would argue and fight and 10 minutes later, we were the best of friends all over again.” The Sisters of Providence in Richmond spoke to Pat about the Providence Juniorate High School at the Woods. In 1952, one year...
Justice on the margins: Providence Associate Maria Price
This mural by artist Mary Cobb hangs over the welcome desk at the men’s homeless shelter in Louisville, Kentucky, where Providence Associate Maria Price serves as executive director. Did you know that Providence Associate and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College alum Maria Price helps run a homeless shelter in Louisville, Kentucky? Currently, Maria serves as executive director of the St. John Center for Homeless Men. She began volunteering at the shelter in 1995 and joined the staff in 2006. “It is truly...
Sisters of Providence ministries honored by community
A handful of organizations based in West Terre Haute recently came together to honor ministries of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, and other individuals for their efforts in helping provide for those in need in the community. Officials from West Vigo High School, the West Vigo Community Center and Emily’s Walk collaborated to create the “Emmies” in honor of the late Emily Herrington, a longtime resident of the community. Sister Dorothy Rasche This year, the first ceremony...
Sisters of Providence Leadership Team calls for an end to gun violence
...9, marked only the 221st day of this year. Thus, the United States is averaging more than one mass shooting per day. According to Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, approximately 36,000 Americans are killed by guns every year, and more than 100,000 are shot and injured annually. In addition, the organization states that, from 2014 to 2017, gun deaths in our country increased by 16 percent. Also, the law center says that of the 36,383 Americans killed with...
Renewing spiritually at the Woods
...me there.” Sister Paula Damiano, retreat director for Providence Spirituality and Conference Center, says, “People are drawn to the silence and solitude here at Saint Mary-of-the Woods. There are places where you can walk, rest and pray. Some come to center themselves and refocus. Others because they are dealing with issues in their lives and want to explore them in the context of prayer. We even had an author stay for a month so she could write her book without...
Sister Marilyn Rose Ginder
...Counseling, also from Notre Dame. As part of her work at Notre Dame, she interned at Midtown Comprehensive Mental Health Center in Indianapolis, and then she returned to the center and worked there from 1973 to 2002, except for four years when she served in Provincial Administration for the Indiana Province of the Sisters of Providence. Sister Joann Quinkert recalls the support Marilyn gave, as Provincial, to the missions in the South at that time, where our sisters were dealing...