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The ‘month of our Mother’
...years later, continuing this treasured practice of the community with “devotedness and love.” I clearly remember the ritual of May crowning throughout my 16 years of Sisters of Providence education, especially in my early days in grade school at St. Joseph’s, Downers Grove, Ill. I could hardly wait for it. I loved the hymns, the flowers, the procession, and especially the tradition of the very sweetest, nicest eighth-grade girl (and she was!) dressed in white as a bride, crowning the...
Reflections from the 2018 Golden/Silver Jubilee Celebration
...a less tumultuous time in the world, but the choice to enter religious life in 1993 was no longer something many Catholic women were doing. Why would Pat Linehan, after a 25-year career as a Navy Nurse, seek religious life? Why would Kathleen Bernadette Smith, an accomplished musician and a pastoral presence in her own African American community, seek life in a predominately white Providence community? It would be easy for me to say that the answer to these questions...
Advent 2018: So many possibilities in the waiting
...they got there. Maybe we care for a beloved elder who no longer recognizes us; but, listening to I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas, she begins to sing along. That’s worth waiting for! Or maybe we decide we’ve waited long enough and take that step to mend a broken relationship. So many possibilities in the waiting. So many times in the waiting we can wake ourselves up, get out of our everyday way of seeing life and take the chance...
Prayer: Small blessings, big impact
Oh, God, it’s winter. I think of the small blessings of cold and chill, ice and snow, and how the season can have a big effect on my mood and feelings, if I let it. Small, one-of-a-kind snowflakes create big, white blankets of beauty and soon receive squeals of delight as youngsters, muffled and gloved, hop on sleds, careening down hillsides. Small droplets of water freeze to become big cave-like stalactites, hanging, fine-sculpted ice formations catching the sun’s rays, delighting...
Sister Prom 2019
...Dance” for the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sisters and students filled the room with enjoyment and carefree dancing. Sister Donna Butler said “this is my first prom ever” and giggled. She was tickled pink to be at this dance. Thanks to SMWC basketball students Delaney Kendall, Brianna Smith and Regan Hubbard, the sisters felt welcome and joined the students in the middle of the dance floor. White lights and colorful streamers decorated O’Shaughnessy Dining Room for the event....
Sister Cecilia Carter (formerly Sister Mary Cecilia)
...community. She replied: “I have no roots in Orange. My roots are at the Woods.” In August of 1977, both Celia and I were missioned at St. Elizabeth in Van Nuys, California. Celia had finished her terms as Provincial and I had come from our House of Prayer, which had closed. Quite soon, Celia confided to me that she also felt called to a more contemplative lifestyle and had inquired with the Trappistines at White Thorn in northern California. So...
The living and growing Providence Associate relationship in California and beyond
...Ruck and Linda McMahon The actual beginnings, and really the heart of the associate life in southern California, centered over on the coast around Providence Associate Mary Jean (Jeannie) Smith, who, with associates Pat Ruck and Linda McMahon, inspired all of us to make connections and find ways to be together. On one occasion Linda renewed her commitment with us by phone! For a great many gatherings, Jeannie planned and wrote our prayer services. Four wonderful friends made application and...
Stepping forward to become a Sister of Providence
The past couple weeks I was in Southern California for my home visit to spend quality time with family and friends. The trending question people asked me: “What have the past months been like?” Along with follow up questions: “When are you going back to Indiana?” and “Are you going to move forward to the next step?” Postulant Jessica Vitente puts her business and accounting background to good use in her volunteer ministry at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center. While...
Sister Jessica Vitente enters the novitiate
...her desire to enter the novitiate as Sister Dawn and her postulant director Sister Marsha Speth stand by in support Sister Carol Nolan joins the prayer service Sister Dawn blesses the new novice’s white cross held by Sister Marsha Speth that Jessica will receive Sister Dawn gives Sister Jessica her new novice’s cross. Sister Dawn hugs and congratulates Sister Jessica. Sister Dawn presents the new novice sister, Sister Jessica Vitente, to the Congregation. Her new novice director, Sister Janice Smith,...
Sister Jessica Vitente enters novitiate with Sisters of Providence
...come.” And with that, Jessica Vitente came forward to be given the novice’s white cross symbol of the Sisters of Providence and with, the title Sister. Sister Jessica had officially entered the Congregation’s novitiate to the applause of those who attended the ceremony in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. (Click here for a photo album of the ceremony). “When I hear Sister Jessica, it surely rings differently in my ear,” Sister Jessica said recently. “I am still adjusting and...
A lifetime of meeting needs around the world and in our own backyard: Sister Patty Fillenwarth
On a picnic in Arequipa, Peru, in the early 1970s. Sister Patty Fillenwarth at right. Pictured front Father John Foley, SJ., back left to right, Sisters Florence Norton and Betty Smigla, Michael O’Malley (Peace Corps) Editor’s note: Sister Patty Fillenwarth died Jan. 7, 2020 at the age of 79. She is greatly missed. When Patty Fillenwarth (formerly Sister Joseph Monica) was in fifth grade, the missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa — the White Sisters — visited her classroom...
Providence Associates: addressing the needs in our backyards
We asked Providence Associates from around the country to tell us about an issue in “their own backyard” that they are passionate about. Here several Providence Associates share about a need and how they are responding. They tell how their collaboration with the Sisters of Providence supports them in these efforts and offer advice to all of us in how we can help. Providence Associate Sandy Wickware, center, speaks with Sisters Jacquelyn Hoffman, left, and Rosemary Schmalz, right. Sandra Wickware...