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Sister Mary Mundy
...Sisters of Providence a lot. I’ve often said I really believe I’m here, not so much by my own choosing, but those sisters who prayed for me before I was ever born. They prayed for the next generation to consider religious life within this community just as I have prayed for the generation after me. Being on this campus, and coming to visit the campus, there was something about being welcomed, about being at home. I came to the Aspirancy...
New Providence Associates share their journey, part 2
...companion to help us through the process. I met or communicated each month for 10 months with my companion/mentor, Sister Rosemary Schmalz. We respectively would go through our chapters of study and reflection and then we would have these wonderful in-depth conversations. During this process, I not only had a companion, I gained a new friend, which I look up to with great respect. I have grown so much from the teachings of Mother Theodore Guerin and other women of...
O Antiphon – O Dayspring come shine on us
...antiphons trace a chronological path through Israel’s history of people and events that led to the coming of the Messiah who brought salvation for the people. The illustrations add visuals for reflection and contemplative insights into the meaning of the antiphons and enhance their beauty. We invite you to reflect on an O Antiphon each day leading to Christmas. One word dominated this ancient prayer – Come!!! For what need or desire do you most eagerly pray, “Come, Lord Jesus?”...
Sisters of Providence celebrate Jubilees
...art education. She also earned a master’s degree in religious studies from Mundelein College. Her ministries include: Terre Haute, Indiana: Teacher, St. Ann (1973-78), Freeport, Illinois: Campus Minister, Sauk Valley College/Highland Community College (1979-81), Freeport, Illinois: Campus Minister, Highland Community College (1981-83), Freeport, Illinois: Associate Diocesan Director of Campus Ministry, Highland Community College (1983-86), Rockford, Illinois: Associate Diocesan Director of Campus Ministries, Rockford College and Rock Valley College (1986-88), Rockford, Illinois: Co-Director of Campus Ministries, Diocese of Rockford, Rockford College...
Come with me
...says, “Come with me.” Given that Ann works in the garden, cooks and occasionally helps with the fiber arts, my new job could be almost anything. Today it meant learning the arcane art of needle felting. Last week, “come with me” meant holding a chicken in my lap so Dave didn’t have to drive the big white pick-up truck and hold the chicken at the same time. I’m fairly sure he was joking. I hope. Many hands are involved in...
Living a fruitful vowed life
...future generations. A sister professing a vow of chastity in the Congregation today, a vow which she will live out within a celibate community, understands that she commits herself to strive to bring about the reign of God through her efforts to live in right relationship — with God, herself, others and the whole of creation. She commits herself to find appropriate ways to do this, learning to be more loving, more compassionate in her relationships with others, more willing...
Let us be the people Jesus describes, as he sends his disciples out on Mission
...“Rem’Mie” Fells. Though we who are alive today haven’t literally been buried with them, we must listen to and feel the depth of the pain that communities of color – especially Black communities – are expressing. We must listen to and feel the depth of the pain that the LGBTQ+ community is experiencing in being exiled, especially from our local Catholic schools in this Archdiocese of Indianapolis. We must find ways to understand more deeply what the COVID pandemic means...
Get to know Sister Arrianne Whittaker
Sister Arrianne Whittaker entered the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 2012. At the time of this recording, she is 29 and a temporarily professed Sister of Providence. In the video clips below, she shares some of her recent experiences of discerning and entering the Sisters of Providence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5enwWj7uDw&t= “I just remember having a dream and waking up with the feeling that I was supposed to investigate being a woman religious.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73uf-lVyt7k&t= “You’re not alone. You’re with your companions...
November 12, 2023: Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
...community we wise-foolish people desire to live. “This particular (community of wise-foolish people) is called into being by God to participate as a community in extending the providential designs of God to all creation. These (wise-foolish people) work to build community since its continuing call into being depends upon each one’s affirmative response. Community is formed by faith, hope and love lived not only in moments of light and peace, but also in the pain and darkness of human existence.”...
Providence Associate commitment ceremony 2017
...and her companion Sister Barbara Bluntzer, standing, chat with other associates. Jean Smith with Eileen and Joe Horan and their daughter Sister Tracey Horan Providence Associate Mary Bales with her companion Sister Laurette Bellamy Providence Associate Patti Burris and her companion Sister Kay Kelly Sister Paula Damiano companions Providence Associate Shawn Shamsaie Providence Associate Peggy Stewart with her companion Sister Terri Boland Companion Sister Rosemary Ward with Providence Associate Laura Dudkowski Sandra Powell with her companion Providence Associate Mary Longtine...
June 8, 2025: Pentecost Sunday
...first reading for today (from Acts of the Apostles) the feast symbolizes the formation of a new covenant community. The new community is the work of the Holy Spirit and the work of human begins. It is the community of Spirit-filled believers. Our Scripture text for today is a kind of summation of the Gospel of John. It contains all that had been promised and is now fulfilled. John recorded earlier Jesus having said that he would come again, that...
A Note from Providence Associates Jane Fischer and Pearlette Springer, September 11, 2024
...to get to know others. Involvement – it takes a lot of people doing a lot of little things…more than once. Visit the St. Thomas Aquinas Race and Culture Committee online. Since 2017 this group has been addressing racial issues in their community. There are eight activities listed on their parish’s website linked above. If you wish to learn more, please contact Patrice Payne (patricejpayne@gmail.com) or Karla Hudecek (khudecek@staindy.org). Additional racial equity resources can be viewed here. It is a...