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Sister Marilyn Baker
...that comes to mind when I think of God is … an overwhelming feeling of love. My biggest pet peeve is … trash thrown or dropped in public places. Sister Marilyn reflects on wearing the habit http://www.youtube.com/embed/feOUDsU1odc Sister Marilyn offers advice to women considering religious life today http://www.youtube.com/embed/FhYG1oxZVNs Sister Marilyn shares her story about choosing to join the Sisters of Providence http://www.youtube.com/embed/szwdUw0tCFY Sister Marilyn’s feast day memory http://www.youtube.com/embed/TUpHLxjpjOI Tidbits Least favorite subject in school: grammar in grade school and Latin...
Providential Connections
...Lilly & Company, a global pharmaceutical company and one of the largest employers in Indiana. In January 2007, John Lechleiter, president and chief executive officer of Eli Lilly said, “I can honestly say that I have not talked to a single business owner or corporate executive who isn’t willing to consider sponsored employment of Cristo Rey students. I think this reflects a desire on the part of the business community to do something constructive to improve the standard of education...
Providence to the core
...the way Sisters of Providence seem to find each other for prayer and for community. “We love to get together,” she says. “We’re like magnets.” Currently living in the novitiate, Sister Rosemary gets to display a bit of her own magnetic personality. She takes part with other sisters in daily group prayer and provides an experience for the novice of living in community. Her life serves as an example for a woman learning what choosing to be a Sister of...
Sister Suzanne Smith (formerly Sister Louis)
...Indiana. She was 86 years old and was a Sister of Providence for 67 years. Sister Ann continued: Sister Teresa Costello, often her traveling companion, admired Suzanne’s uncanny ability to plan such trips, stating, “Before we went out the door, she knew exactly where we would stay (usually in “Vatican Motels” as Suzanne called convents, retreat houses, college dorms – all quite economical!). She even knew where she and companion travelers could find decent and inexpensive restaurants, even down to...
Three Sisters of Providence receive sentences for trespassing during SOA protest
...the groups that supported me are truly gifts,” she said. Sister Rita Clare Gerardot, 76, was sentenced to 12 months probation and 500 hours of community service, part of which will be continuing her prison ministry with federal Death Row inmate David Paul Hammer. “I feel elated at the fact that what I proposed to the judge as an alternative sentence of community service was accepted,” she said. She also plans to volunteer in the maternal health clinic at Union...
Life on the farm at White Violet Center: Meet our summer crop of interns
...Alexis Klug Alexis has completed her junior year at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and is majoring in Environmental Science. She has been active with the Sustainability Club on campus. “I have an interest in gardening and farming because of my background through my family’s farm. I look forward to this internship position in order to gain more Environmental Science experience.” Liz Kuntz, Cleveland, Ohio Liz Kuntz Liz has recently completed her degree at Maryland Institute College of Art, majoring in Fiber Art with...
Sister Rita Clare Gerardot
...I entered thinking I would never get to go home except for a sad occasion, as Providence would have it, one of the sisters with whom I was living needed a companion to Fort Wayne in late August 1954. I was sent as her companion. When I called my mom to tell her I would be at St. Jude’s and that they could come to visit me, she thought I was just passing through for the day. That night, four...
The remarkable life of Mother Marie Gratia Luking
...the war and internment, was devastated by these blows to her little community. As the communist armies advanced closer and closer to Kaifeng, the United States Consulate General advised all U.S. citizens to leave. The Religious of the Sacred Heart in Shanghai invited the Sisters of Providence to come to Shanghai and to teach in their International High School and Aurora University. In June, Kaifeng fell to the communist army, and it was reported that Shanghai, too, would soon fall....
Mother Theodore, Providence Associate Kate Childs Graham: writers encouraging goodness
...her Providence Associate Companion Diann Neu at Saint Mary-ofthe-Woods for Kate’s Rite of First Commitment as a Providence Associate in 2018 “Working in politics, I mostly write to persuade. Both candor and compassion are incredibly important when trying to reach hearts and minds. Take COVID-19, for instance. It has been critical for our political leaders to be candid about the situation at hand so that people who live and work in our nation have the information they need to make...
Providence Community Cemetery blessed
...open-sided chapel as a gathering space for sisters and other mourners to offer the committal prayers prior to interment. Many parishioners from St. Mary’s Village Church, where Father Bernie served for many years, joined the sisters for the dedication. Several requests for interment in Providence Community Cemetery have been processed in recent months. If you have a significant and long-standing relationship with the Sisters of Providence and are interested in further information, go to CommunityCemetery.SistersofProvidence.org and fill out the “Interest”...
November 16, 2025: Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
...for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he.’ and ‘The time has come.’ Do not follow them! When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified, for such things must happen first, but it will not immediately be the end.” Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be powerful earthquakes, famines, and plagues from place to place; and awesome sights and mighty signs will come from...
Providence Associates photo highlights 2011
...Chao, left, are joined by Sister Editha Ben after the Rite of Commitment ceremony on June 12, 2011. Orientation: Sister Rosemary Nudd (left) and Lori Strawn of Wichita, Kan., are elated to be with one another again as candidate and companion during the second orientation for 2011-2012 Providence Candidate-Associates on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011, at the Woods. Lori was one of Sister Rosemary’s students at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Mary Kay Powell (left) made her first commitment during the Eucharistic Liturgy...