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Newsnotes: the latest from the Sisters of Providence
...Piccione, SP, center, with Sisters Josephine Bryan and Grace Marie Meehan, SP Sister Mary Jo Piccione (formerly Sister Mary Joel) was honored in October by the Diocese of San Bernardino, California, as the first recipient of the Saint Damien Molokai award. The award is for those who provide spiritual care in the health care setting. Sister Mary Jo was nominated by pastors, priests, doctors, nurses and volunteers. Currently, Sister Mary Jo ministers as a Chaplain at Providence-Saint Mary’s Medical Center...
What is Eco-Justice?
...Planet. The article was in the first issue of Feminist Platform, provided by 8th Day Center for Justice, located in Chicago. The center was founded in 1974 by six Catholic religious congregations of women and men, including the Sisters of Providence. Sister Kathleen Desautels ministers at 8th Day Center for Justice. Environmental justice surfaced as environmental advocacy in the mid-1970s. By the 1980s, faith denominations began writing about and calling for ethical and moral actions to address injustices faced by...
Sister Marceline Mattingly
...retirement. She dusted off her teaching skills and was soon volunteering as an instructor at the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Learning Resource Center, tutoring adults as well as grade and high school students in need of some additional help beyond the classroom. She “retired” (again) in 2001 and her ministry for the next 20 years became a volunteer/visitor in Providence Health Care. She had the gift of presence and was able to just “be” with people, from her dear friend Sister...
Sister Thomas Jeanne Doriot
...Mission, Bakersfield (1992); Director of Religious Education, San Clemente Mission, Bakersfield (1993-97); Paralegal, Archdiocesan Tribunal of Los Angeles (1998-99); Administrative Assistant to Executive Director, Conrad N. Hilton Fund for Sisters, Los Angeles (1999-2005); Administrative Associate, Saint John Health Center Foundation, Santa Monica (2006-09); Outreach Ministry, Providence St. John Health Center, Santa Monica (2010-15); Residential Services, Los Angeles (2015-19). In Nevada: Associate Director, Home for Juvenile Girls, Nevada Catholic Welfare Bureau, Henderson (1979-83); Pastoral Associate, Guardian Angel Cathedral, Las Vegas (1983-87)....
Sister Kathleen Kelly (formerly Sister Edward Marie)
...spiritual influence.” Well, she wasn’t the only Provite to enter that year. Sister Mary Lou Ruck tells us about how a large group of prospective postulants met at the Chicago train station on Feb. 1, 1951. This was during the Korean War and the trains were on strike, but in order to transfer sailors from the Great Lakes Training Center, some were still going out of Chicago. However, times were not reliable. When the call came over the loudspeaker, Terre...
Gathering in solidarity, respect and unity
...me, my identity as a Sister of Providence flows into that just so easily. At this time, how can I as a Sister of Providence not say and stand for the things we’ve been working for all along?” Connected to mission Sister Paula, who ministers as a co-director of the Providence Spirituality and Conference Center, speaks of the visitors they welcome into their space. “I think that, when we have people come here, to this center, whether it be for...
Healing difficult relationships through writing
Jeanne Frost, administrative assistant at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center, served as caretaker for her mother for 15 years. Her mother suffered from dementia, causing challenges in their relationship. After her death in 2014, Frost decided to attend a Mining the Dark retreat in Oldenburg, Indiana. The retreat focuses on using writing to find healing from difficult relationships. Jeanne Frost is the administrative assistant at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center “I’ve used writing to work through difficult situations since I...
‘Like Mary, you have given birth’
...The archetype of the prophet helps us to imagine the world as it might be and to consider how we can get from here to there. How many times have you mirrored justice, Jubilarians? In your work at such places as 8th Day Center for Justice, Feeding Empty Little Tummies, St. Ann’s Health Clinic? At the Hispanic Education Center, various branches of Catholic Charities? At Providence Self-Sufficiency Ministries, at Anna’s House, Project Light or Providence Food Pantry? How many times...
Sister Rose Louise Schafer
...your siblings and all of those who have gone before you. May you enjoy that eternal home. All those you leave behind will miss you,” concluded Sister Nancy. The Mass of Christian Burial for Sister Rose Louise was celebrated Sept. 10, with the Rev. Daniel Hopcus presiding. She is survived by four brothers, Louis, Lafayette, Ind.; and Walter, Paul and Thomas, all of West Lafayette, Ind.; and two sisters, Beatrice Steiner of West Lafayette, and Margaret Whiteis of Huddleston, Va....
Christmas 2011
...Whom I believe and hope and place my trust. But, maybe because I’m getting older and like to remember more and more from my childhood, I have found myself dwelling on a story my very favorite aunt, Aunt Lu, told me when I was just starting high school. For Christmas, Lu had asked for a pair of slippers. She knew exactly what she longed for — red slippers with white “fur” around the tops. She believed that Santa would deliver...
Foundation Day – Oct. 22, 2010
...wrote: “Remember, no one loves you as your old Mother Theodore does.” Sister Olympiade Boyer must have been a colorful character! She was an excellent cook, a skilled herbalist and healer, a wonderful storyteller and as quick to praise as to admonish. Sister Olympiade fed and nursed sisters, students and neighbors. It is written of her that she would travel the countryside on a white horse tending the sick and visiting the lonely. During her fifty-three years in Indiana, she...
Sisters’ habits
...neighbors through the years.” Today, Sisters of Providence follow the directives on dress in their Constitutions and Complementary Document approved in 1995 by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. The section titled “Common Witness” reads, “The distinctive symbol [the white cross] of the Sisters of Providence is always worn as the common sign of witness. The sister wears a modified habit or simple dress or suit … which expresses the simplicity of life she...