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Racism’s infection within American healthcare
...government’s negligence to account for this and the nuances of health within communities of color is what leads to these prevalent and recurring racial health disparities. Needed remedy image from The U.S. National Archives In order to overcome the multitude of racial health disparities occurring in America, the United States government needs to recognize how their mistakes and how systematic racism as a whole has ruptured the relationship between Americans of color and their nation’s healthcare system. Mending this relationship...
Twenty-five discoveries at The Woods
Providence Associates Suzie Ray and Jane Fischer share 25 things they discovered while volunteering at The Woods earlier this month. 1. Woodhaven Retreat Center and Guesthouse is quiet, peaceful, and a great place for Providence Associates and others to congregate and get together. The building is air conditioned and the private bedrooms with bath are comfortable. You can spend evenings on the back porch overlooking the fields and woods. 2. A visit to the Archives unearths a treasure trove of...
A Reflection for the 2022 Senior Jubilee
...same. She has learned to love the little things. Imagine how many little things she has unearthed and taken care of during her 21 years of service in Archives. Thank you, Marie Esther, your practice of being attentive to little things has certainly added up to a lifetime of faithful service to students and sisters alike. Sister Joyce Brophy also had a verse, but hers came from Mother Theodore: “Love the children first, then teach them.” Sister Joyce Brophy...
Volunteer opportunities await at the Woods!
...Violet Center for Eco-Justice Farm White Violet Farm Store Associate Visiting with the Sisters of Providence in long-term care Office Assistance Linden Leaf Gifts Sales Associate The Connecting Link Resource Center Archives Department. And there is so much more! Schedules are flexible — volunteer as much or as little as you would like. Let’s get to work! “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”...
Sister Maureen Abbott
...lived with cancer. We all know Maureen was not all work and no play. One sister remembers every summer she and Maureen played tennis together. According to this sister, “Maureen was quite the tennis player.” Sister Maureen Abbott Another sister, a colleague of the SP Archives, shares this memory: “We often went to movies before COVID came. Which was at times rather hilarious because Maureen could not see in the dark and I had to lead her to her seat...
Sister Rosemary Borntrager (formerly Sister Rose Cecile)
...a Joliet diocesan Personnel Policy Handbook, about which Bishop Imesch remarked: “You have given a great gift to the diocese.” He called it “nitty-gritty work (and that) it takes someone with your perseverance and patience to accomplish it.” Here at the Woods, she developed a Policy and Procedures Manual for the Central Business Office; organized a medical records system in health care, and in Archives, compiled the collections of all the General Superiors from Mother Mary Cecilia Bailey through Mother...
Sister Carolyn Kessler (formerly Sister Ann Carolyn)
...ways, especially service related to daily Mass: Sacristan, reader, Eucharistic minister. She wrote the following in a 2011 Archives Information sheet: “I welcome newcomers, help them feel at home, take part in a wide variety of activities, share meals … and generally get to know as many as I can … The Pastoral Care Director … told me … that I served as a kind of leaven and probably had no awareness of my impact on the residents here. I...
St. Anne Shell Chapel: holy ground
...the SP archives of the then-wooden shell chapel with the SP cemetery beside it The story behind the chapel is well-known to those familiar with the history of the Sisters of Providence. In 1844, Congregation Foundress Saint Mother Theodore Guerin was returning from a fundraising trip to France. The ship she was on, The Nashville, was almost destroyed in a terrible storm. During the storm, she promised that if she survived she would preserve the story in a chapel honoring...
Touched by the Woods for a lifetime
...the Woods. I spent most of my time that summer as a research assistant for my professor. She and I poured through documents in the Sisters of Providence archives with the late Sister Ann Kathleen, who was the archivist at that time. We reviewed them for inclusion and reference in my professor’s doctor of philosophy dissertation: “Educational Movements that have influenced the Sister Teacher Program of the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence 1840—1940.” Drawn back to the Woods This...
Sisters of Providence celebrate 2023 Senior Jubilarians
...Chicago (1997-2007), Volunteer, After School Homework Program, Providence Family Services, Chicago (2007-13), and Volunteer, After School Homework Program/Interfaith Post-Detention Accompaniment Network, Chicago (2013-18). Sister James Michael Kesterson was born in Indianapolis. Currently, she ministers in the archives department of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and Anna’s House, also in Indianapolis. Sister James Michael entered the Congregation on Feb. 2, 1948, from St. Roch Parish in Indianapolis. She professed perpetual vows on Aug. 15, 1955. She has a bachelor’s degree in education...
‘Like Mary, you have given birth’
...in the world. You have followed various pathways in meeting the needs of people. If we put together a litany of your lives, it might sound something like this: O Jubilarians, teachers of children … thank you from us. (And honestly, all but about two of you have taught first or second graders at some point in your lives.) O Jubilarians, directors and/or administrators of — you name i t— religious education, formation, liturgy, advancement, archives, pastoral care, mission development,...
Our trip to Ruillé sur Loir
...was made at the time of the exhumation of several bones of Mother Theodore in 1998 in preparation for her ultimate canonization. However, for the last 10 years or so it has been in Archives. The General Officers became aware of this reliquary recently and learned that it is not being used to create second class relics for our own shrine. Therefore, it was decided that this occasion of the General Chapter of the Ruillé Sisters and the participation of...