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Sister Angela “Angie” Louise Schwartz
...for Sister Angela “Angie” Louise Schwartz, who died March 1. One of two daughters of Edwin and Bridget (Jarboe) Schwartz, Elizabeth Catherine Schwartz was born Jan. 12, 1928, in Evansville, Ind. She attended St. Anthony Grade School and Reitz Memorial High School, both in Evansville. She entered the Congregation July 21, 1946, and professed first and perpetual vows Jan. 23, 1949, and 1954, respectively. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s degree in...
Sister Barbara Sheehan
...was always a sense that the nuns had our back.” “They were always with us, cared about us, took care of us really.” “We were all in it together in those days.” “This was the most influential part of my life.” My vocation was born – actually my thirst for justice built upon community and living – in this atmosphere. It was an atmosphere where I did not separate the neighborhood and the church because the priests and sisters were...
Providence House restores families to wholeness
...of healing. Like Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and her small band of sisters who came to the United States in 1840 to educate pioneer children and care for the sick-poor, Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods today seek out and meet unmet needs for people around us. Thank you for making our lifestyle of service and ministry possible. You make a difference in the lives of people who struggle. Learning life skills In addition to Dr. England, staff members for...
Providence Teen Ministry volunteers and talent show 2019
Teens in the Wabash Valley are proving they have big hearts and a willingness to give. We had great turnouts at the last Providence Teen Ministry volunteer days with 17 teens volunteering on Feb. 9 and 24 teens on March 9, 2019! The young people volunteered each day spending time with the sisters, helping them get around, playing games, even performing a talent show! Enjoy these photos from the two days. Know a teen interested in volunteering with our retired...
Sister Eileen Mary Cunningham
...retiring in 1993, Sister Eileen Mary ministered as the director of health care, nurse or administrator at St. Joseph Convent, Quincy, Mass., and as the director of nursing at Providence Retirement Home, New Albany, Ind. “Sister Eileen Mary’s most recent ministry was prayer — prayer specifically for the Health Care staff members at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. To you who provided care for her, she not only prayed for you, but she also loved to tease you and connect with you as...
How we shall admire God’s care…
How we shall admire God’s care of us!...
Sister Marilyn Therese Lipps
Sister Marilyn Therese Lipps was born on Sept. 15, 1920, in Indianapolis, to Henry and Stella (Fuller) Lipps. She baptized Therese Marie and was the youngest of the six girls born in this Lipps family. Her five sisters preceded her in death: Sister Marie Joan and Sister Marie Agnese, along with Frances, Helen and Alice, said Sister Martha Wessel during her commentary for Sister Marilyn Therese, who died on Friday, Aug. 26, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 95 years old...
A response from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious to These Times
...religious with a depth that may have never been required of us previously. The public proclamation each of us made at our profession of vows reminds us of our responsibility to be women of God living amid the deep challenges of the world – fearless of embracing and embodying the priorities of the Gospel. What we are witnessing in society today goes against the principles that we, as Catholic sisters, have labored for centuries to nurture and protect. Recalling these...
The pope and the golden rule
...Others, on the most liberal end, complain that Francis doesn’t say enough — about women in the Church, about abuse of children by priests. Poor Francis. The guy can’t win. And yet he has won, by choosing his topics and sticking to them tenaciously. He cannot be everything to everyone, and he knows this. So he looks to Christ and chooses two places where we humans consistently fall down: In care of the poor and in care of our planet....
A reflection for the Season of Creation
Note: The following reflection was delivered by Sisters of Providence Vicar General Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp during Mass on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. I must confess that when I began to look at the readings of the day in preparation for these reflections and came across the first reading from Isaiah, I thought Sister Lisa had sent me the wrong readings. Is that not a passage that we equate with Lent? “I gave my back to those who beat me, my...
Care of Earth: an ascetical practice for our times?
...remember practices in which all Catholics were expected to engage — such as the requirement to abstain from eating meat on Fridays; to observe certain days with the practice of fasting and abstinence; to prepare for the reception of Eucharist by fasting from food and drink after midnight, etc. In the 1960s during the Second Vatican Council, Catholic bishops acknowledged that, for many Catholics, practices such as these had deteriorated into mere formalities or legalities and had lost their meaning...
It’s all about the journey
...their way home to God.” Sister Mary Jo said her journey began with the wise and faith-filled sisters she had the privilege of serving for 10 years in the Infirmary when she was a young sister. She then moved to California to minister at a free clinic for Hispanic women and children and at St. Joseph’s Adult Day Health Care Center for the elderly. She was blessed to “walk” with her niece in the Midwest during her struggle with cancer,...