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Connecting hope and assistance to a community in need
...even make it in the door.” Since 1997 Sister Dorothy has helped assemble citizens, officials and organizations to address and meet common community needs. She’s considered “the watchdog” of West Terre Haute, the small town nearest Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, with a population of 2,480. In the past five years, The Connecting Link has assisted 4,240 clients, 701 of which were first-time clients. The ministry is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2017. Whether it’s working with animal control, demolishing abandoned homes or...
Sisters of Providence respond to compelling need for health care
What brought Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and her companions to Indiana? A compelling need — education. Education of children and adults has remained the primary ministry of the Sisters of Providence for most of our history. Less well known though is that, throughout our history, the Sisters of Providence have responded to the compelling need for health care. Providence Health Care Director of Nursing Kim Wright shows off a fall food craft activity with Sister Ann Stephen Stouffer. Moments in...
‘What will happen to us if that comet falls out of the sky?’
...and not to yield.” This is the power that Jesus wielded, the power that we, too, are given as an inheritance this Easter day. We can make of our lives a beloved community. A community where we will truly embrace the meaning of the words, “we are all children of God.” A community that knows that God is counting on us to be the way God takes care of all the beloved of God. Let the majestic power of Christ’s...
21 new Providence Associates! Rite of first commitment 2022
...prays during the liturgy. Sister of Providence Rosemary Nudd prays over her Providence Associate companion Tara Ronda. New Providence Associate Janet Roth during the liturgy. Providence Associate Adrienne Bates-Brown pins the Providence Associate pin on Martha Pluckebaum Sister Jean Fuqua and the new Providence Associate she has comapanioned the past year, Marilyn Antonik. 23 Providence Associates renewed their commitments at the ceremony. PA Bonnie Wilson renews her commitment. Sister Mary Ann McCauley and her new Providence Associate companion Laura Tucker...
A new start in the Providence Community
Twenty-four women and men started their journeys with the Providence Community on Oct. 17 at the 2020 Providence Associate candidate orientation. Sisters, associates and new candidates joined together by Zoom for the Providence Associate orientation in October. This virtual event was quite different than in years past. Usually sisters, associates and candidates meet in person. They get to know each other, share and pray and start the new candidates and their companions on their upcoming year of sharing and exploration....
Providence Community commits to develop Laudato Si’ Action Platform
...Smith. Staff member Jason Moon also assists the task force. In its work to create a Laudato Si’ Action Platform, the Providence Community will continue to build on work that has been done to date, including the Providence Climate Agreement and Manifesto and efforts to reduce the community’s carbon footprint as well as sustaining its 10-year commitment to pollinator habitats to protect and increase populations of bees. In addition to offering direct services to the poor and underserved often most...
Breaking boundaries as Providence people
...as a member. Talk about breaking boundaries! Deliver us from the violence of superiority and disdain. Grant us the desire, and the humility, to listen with special care to those whose experiences and attitudes are different from our own. Humility calls us to embrace the entire human community without exception. Everyone deserves to be loved and respected. We are all siblings one to the other. The Providence Community signed the declaration Beloved by God: A Catholic Commitment to Trans-Affirmation to...
Anti-Racism: the Providence Community’s justice focus for 2021-2026
...many other justice issues; systemic and structural racism have been the driving force in the inequalities and inequities among various ethnic groups, especially people of color who are the global majority; racism is the foundation of the systemic inequalities and inequities in the entire human community (and is the “original sin” of the United States); the Providence Community admits its own complicity in operating out of its white privilege; Therefore: We, the Providence Community, choose racial equality and equity as...
Oral history: the adventures and challenges of Sister Dorothy Ellen Wolsiffer, SP
...Chicago, where she was secretary, bookkeeper and was able to combine her love of life-long learning with her teaching skills and her creative talent. The Ministry Resource Center was composed of different religious communities working together as a collaborative group. She developed booklets, learned computer programs to create work products for the Resource Center, and taught others what she herself had learned. It was a rewarding time. Volunteer and study Sister Dorothy Having more free time with no homework, Sister...
Reflections for Profession of Vows
...our witnessing your public profession of vows today, should tell you that we have found a treasure in you. So, it is with great joy that we come together today as the Providence Community. Some of us are gathered here in this church. Many of us are nestled in our own local communities, here, there, and everywhere from Louisville to Taiwan. But all of us are brought together by the abiding belief that working for the reign of God is...
Scenes from our 2024 Donor Dinner
...Dawn Tomaszewski (sixth from left) and General Councilor Sister Anne Therese Falkenstein (far right). One of this year’s Companion Award winners Cindy McKay (center) with General Councilor Sister Laura Parker (left) and General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski. One of this year’s Companion Award winners (fourth from left) with General Councilors (from left) Sister Laura Parker, Sister Anne Therese Falkenstein, General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, Vicar/General Treasurer Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp and General Councilor Sister Carole Kimes. One of this year’s Companion...
Sister Beth Wright
...again. She said she had a good friend who was a sister in a community that she thought was a wonderful community. So, I did go through RCIA and I was confirmed in April 2000. In November 2000, I went to my first Discernment Weekend (at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods). I had never been to Terre Haute. So I decided if I made it there, it was meant to be and if not, it wasn’t. I did make it, with next to...