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2025 Reflection for Foundation Day
Note: The following reflection was given by General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski during the October 22, 2025, Foundation Day. “Remember that this union, this charity, this love was also founded here 185 years ago today.“ On October 22, 1855, the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Mother Theodore Guerin is said to have passed a significant portion of the day in her room. She had been ill much of that summer and fall....
Dorothy Gartland
...her ministries, Sister Dorothy has taught at schools in Washington, D.C., Indiana and Illinois. She was principal at Assumption School in Evansville and at St. Joseph School in Hammond, both in Indiana, and spent 20 years teaching at Maternity BVM in Chicago. She was also a founding member of the 8th Day Center for Justice, also located in Chicago. Her final ministry was in prayer at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She loved her Chicago White Sox, although she lived with Cubs’ fans....
Sister Edna Scheller
...Indianapolis (1965-68); Teacher, St. Thomas Aquinas (1968-70); Teacher, Good Shepherd, Evansville (1970-77); Health Care Administrator, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1988-92); Principal, Sacred Heart School, Clinton (1993-2000); Driver, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2001); Coordinator of Transportation, Sisters of Providence (2001-16); Residential Services, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2016-20). In Illinois: Teacher, St. Francis Borgia (1952-55). In North Carolina: Teacher, Blessed Sacrament (1955-56). In California: Teacher, St. Joseph, Hawthorne (1977-79); Principal, Good Shepard, Pacifica (1979-82); Principal, St. Ambrose, Hollywood (1982-88)....
Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp receives Indiana Commission for Women’s Torchbearer Award
Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp, a 38-year member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, received the Indiana Commission for Women’s Torchbearer Award for lifetime achievement during ceremonies Wednesday (March 6) in Indianapolis. Sister Jeanne is the third Sister of Providence to receive a Torchbearer Award. Previous recipients were Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, the Congregation’s foundress, and Sister Marie Kevin Tighe. Mayor Greg Ballard proclaimed Sister Jeanne Hagleskamp Day in Indianapolis on Wednesday. Sister Jeanne was the founding president and is...
2017 reflection for Foundation Day
...build a fair-sized framed church. He called it Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and we gladly changed the name of our station from Thralls to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Unfortunately, it burned down just about eight months ago. But maybe with real teachers, more settlers will come to these parts. They say there will be an academy. We will need to rebuild our little church. We can only hope that the presence of the sisters and an academy will be a blessing for all of...
St. Rose, Chelsea, Massachusetts
In 1889, the Sisters of Providence were asked by the pastor to staff St. Rose School (grade and high) in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur had been teaching there, but the pastor wanted to include boys, and these sisters taught only girls. The high school closed in 1987 because of a great decrease in enrollment. The grade school remained open until the St. Rose of Lima Parish announced its closure prior to the 2020-21 academic year,...
Anniversary of our first mission
...and the three sisters who had been designated as parochial school teachers. The original St. Joseph School in Jasper. On Jan. 4, 1949, lightning struck the school which resulted in a fire that caused much damage. Students were temporarily accommodated in the rectory, convent basement and high school. These events caused school to start a week late the following year. A new school building, which is the current school building, was dedicated Oct. 16, 1959. By the 1973-74 year 14...
Providence Cristo Rey honors Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp
...there was a need for a Cristo Rey model school and reached out to the Sisters of Providence to help sponsor it. The Congregation agreed and by 2007, the school opened its doors. Sister Jeanne ministered as the first President of the school. Providence Cristo Rey is a sponsored institution of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Kellison said school officials felt it was time to honor Sister Jeanne’s ministry at the school. “We honor Sister Jeanne as...
Saint Mother Theodore’s Feast Day Reflection
Happy Feast Day (Friday, Oct. 3, 2014)! How wonderful to be together to celebrate Saint Mother Theodore’s Feast Day! Today we have the privilege, the honor, of moving the remains of Mother Theodore to her place in the chapel in her shrine. So many have brought this day to its fruition – Sisters of Providence, former staff and current staff members, artists and artisans of word, wood images and of artifacts; architects, liturgical designers, construction workers, engineers, carpenters, printers, electricians;...
Sister Emily Walsh (formerly Sister Mary Francine)
...Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sister Emily Walsh (formerly Sister Mary Francine) Complete Ministry In Indiana: Teacher, St. Joseph, Terre Haute (1952-55); Teacher, St. Ann, Terre Haute (1955-62); Teacher, Our Lady of Providence High School, Clarksville (1962-67); Library Administrator, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1975-92); Reference Librarian, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1992-2001); Resource Center Staff/Office of Congregational Advancement, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2001-06); Resource Center Staff/Congregational Business Office Staff/Owens Hall Library, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2006-07); Resource Center/Owens Hall Library,...
Grateful for all who have served this Memorial Day
...went from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war. The dictionary defines holiday as “holy day; feast day, celebration, jubilee, fiesta, fete; vacation day, day of rest.” Holiday is a shortened form of the term holy day. Somehow that seems right to remember that the term holiday can also mean holy day when we think of “celebrating” Memorial Day. Can you imagine the very first Memorial Day gatherings...
Sister Louise Schroeder (formerly Sister Edward Louise)
...in her commentary for Sister Louise Schroeder, formerly Sister Edward Louise, who died Saturday, January 19, 2019, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She was 93 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 76 years. Sister Janet continued: Margaret Ann Schroeder was born in 1925, on November 4, to Theresa Reyling Schroeder and Edward Schroeder in Jasper, Indiana. An older brother, Joseph, died in infancy, and her sisters Calista (Sunny), Pearl, Helen, and Bernadine preceded her in death, as...