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Providence Cristo Rey High School: 10 years of changing lives in Indianapolis
...want to come. You are my family, my community. But my school shoes are locked in the house and we cannot enter.” Sister Jeanne assured her she could come (barefoot if need be!) and that the school community would be there waiting for her. Meanwhile, students were apprised of the situation and given some guidance about how “to be” with her. Sure enough, she arrived, and the students, faculty and staff embraced her with love. Despite that tragedy, Alisa carried...
My Third Great-Aunt
...related to Sister Rose through Anton and Margaret Haag. One of their daughters, Catherine Haag, married Frank Hamant. Bill Hamant was Frank and Catherine’s son, our mother’s father, and our maternal grandfather. Entering Community When Rosina Haag was 20, in 1845, she entered the community of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Noitre Pere Corbe … conferred the religious habit upon three postulants, and Sister Rose Haag, a young German postulant. (Volume 1 of the History of the Sisters...
Journals and Letters week 26: Overcoming great loss
[Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” page 236 to page 244. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week in the coming year.] The writing desk where Saint Mother Theodore wrote many of her letters We are used to reading history in chronological order, but with Journals and Letters, sometimes the next chapter contains letters that were written before the last chapter’s events. In this chapter we’ve regressed to some months before the striking crisis at the...
A reflection for Reception into the Novitiate
...that little piece of jade in Leslie’s hand kept coming to mind. In so many ways, Leslie, you are like that newly transplanted jade. You came to the United States from Vietnam when you were very young, escaping a war-torn country, having to adapt to various cities and circumstances before your family was safely harbored in California. Most recently, you have come to us from the Sisters of Mary Queen, a religious community composed only of Vietnamese sisters. We are...
Reflections for the Easter Triduum
...for you and for many.” And we still call it — receiving communion. Communion — a word that also means the act of sharing, or holding in common; participation; often a kind of intimate fellowship or rapport. What if that concept of communion followed us home from our times of worship? In speaking about the COVID-19 pandemic last March, Pope Francis said, “We have realized that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at...
Cubs win! Sisters react to Chicago Cubs’ World Series victory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3AlcTNzB8A General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski and Sister Nancy Nolan https://youtu.be/3ELUMMv-Qt0 Sister Alice Ann Rhinesmith https://youtu.be/zvd2MeG5HA4 Sister Maureen Ann McCarthy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYRX44RbvBo Sister Noralee Keefe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rHV5vQsePs Sister Rita Clare Gerardot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Kz-bQRyFI Sister Mary Cecile Grojean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aBkShY2CHk Sister Rosemary Nudd Sister Nancy Nolan and General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, were founded by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin in 1840. More than 30 years later, the Chicago Cubs history began, as the team joined the National...
November 2, 2025: The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls Day)
Gospel: John 6:37-40 Jesus said to the crowds: “Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me, because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it on the last...
November 30, 2025: First Sunday of Advent
...and every day. We are to pay attention to how we are living our lives. What is meaningful? Where have we become complacent? What are our routines that impede our fully embracing a state of spiritual readiness? In the Scripture passage from Matthew, Jesus uses the Noah story to make his point about the ease of becoming complacent in our relationship with God. In response to a complacency that may be commandeering our lives and compromising our relationship with God,...
‘Slavery Still Exists’ prayers for justice
...speak out. Commitment All: I commit myself to fulfilling the action I have just chosen in order to show solidarity with members of the human family who are trafficked. Closing Prayer Creating and compassionate Source of Life, we thank you for your love of each of us. May we model your love by our concern for our trafficked sisters and brothers. May they experience in their lives the power of being treasured by us and our efforts to free this...
Sister Mary Ryan
...to teach community history to the sisters in initial formation and anyone else interested in coming. She made the history of our community come alive with her instruction. Mary was very fashion-conscious and loved to shop. She had a fondness for shoes and would be especially excited to purchase a pair at a bargain price. She also liked to dress well and would be dressed up even when she went on her errands to Walgreens. She also loved books; if...
Everything is Connected – Our Food
Note: We want to share these blogs which have been adapted from “Our Common Home,” a joint initiative of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development along with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). This is the fifth in a series of eight blogs. Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home Our Common Home/SEI: A joint initiative of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) has produced an excellent guide for caring for our...
2011 Rite of Commitment
...and Renewal in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Feeling more like spring than autumn, the day began for the candidates with a short rehearsal in the church followed by lunch. Candidates and their companions then gathered in the auditorium in Owens Hall for prayer before walking to the church for the Eucharistic Liturgy. Mass included a reflection by General Superior Sister Denise Wilkinson followed by the Rite of Commitment. Nearly 40 Providence Associates participated in the Renewal of Commitment....