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Ask Sister Dina: How many Sisters of Providence are there and what are their roles?
Editor’s note: This is the first in our column series of “Ask Sister Dina.” Sister Dina Bato, SP, is now answering your questions about spirituality, being a sister today, justice, you name it, here on the Sisters of Providence blog. Do you have a question you have always wanted to “Ask a Sister?” Ask Sister Dina here. Dear Sister Dina, Are you ready? Curious how many Sisters of Providence are there? How many live at the college, how many live...
Remembering Sisters Regina Therese Shaughnessy and Marilyn Rose Ginder
With only a handful of days to go before the dawn of a new year, we wanted to honor the 10 Sisters of Providence who have passed away this year. So, for the next five weeks, two sisters will be featured in each blog. An undated photo of Sister Regina Therese Shaughnessy from her childhood. This week’s Throwback Thursday will focus on the lives of Sister Regina Therese Shaughnessy and Sister Marilyn Rose Ginder. Sister Regina Therese was born Regina...
Reaching out to others
Editor’s Note: As we celebrate Catholic Sisters Week (March 8-14), several sisters will share via the blog about their experiences living as a Catholic sister. In the second grade, I wanted to be a priest. From then on, I knew I would be a Catholic Sister. The Lent before I entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, I affirmed the role of the laity grounded in Baptism. I “went to Mass” every day, consciously making...
Education, advocacy and service with immigrants part of sister’s border experience
Editor’s note: Sister Mary Montgomery is currently living and working on the US/Mexico border as part of the Kino Border Initiative’s program “Catholic Sisters Walking with Migrants.” Sister Mary is participating in the month-long program in Nogales Sonora, Mexico thanks to a grant from the Conrad Hilton Foundation. In today’s blog post Sister Mary shares a little of her experiences and reflections from her experience. Feeding of the multitudes Sister Mary Montgomery with Sister Luz Elena at Kino Border Initiative...
What I love about being a Catholic Sister
Editor’s Note: As we celebrate Catholic Sisters Week March 8-14, several sisters will share via the blog about their experiences living as a Catholic sister. I entered the community of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods at age 47, a widow with one grown son. I had arrived at the United States in 1967 with my husband. We moved from Miami to Long Island, New York to Michigan. I was born in 1939 in Rosario, Argentina. The youngest of...
The Irish Connection
This undated photo depicts Sister Gemma Malone (second from left in back row) and her sister, Sister Francis Catherine (back row, far right) along with Sister Mercedes McAllister (back row, left), Reverend Michael Malone (front, center), Margaret Ann Doriot (front, left) and Jule Doriot. Margaret Ann Doriot later entered the Congregation and was given the religious name Sister Thomas Jeanne. From time to time, people get on Facebook and send us requests for the weekly Throwback Thursday blog. We love...
Journals and Letters week 50: Mother Theodore and Summit City
...blog post. Reading about Reverend Benoit in today’s “Journals and Letters” segment was very touching. He and Mother Theodore made a great team. He was a man who possessed “constant generosity and kind consideration.” When the sisters needed to expand their building he even “contributed $5000 from his own resources.” How blessed were the Sisters of Providence to work with someone who shared their passion. And how nice it must have been after struggling for so long financially to have...
Inclusion means joining the conversation
Women in formation with the Sisters of Providence who helped organize the Gathering in Solidarity at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods last Saturday. From left: Sisters Anna Fan, Dina Bato, Arrianne Whittaker, Corbin Hannah, Joni Luna, Tracey Horan and blog-post-author Emily TeKolste. Six Sisters of Providence attended the Women’s March on Washington last weekend. I wrote an article about their attendance. It received some backlash, and even more support, when we shared it on social media. Some commenters were disappointed sisters were attending...
‘We Are Still In’
...to the declaration and share those during the event.” During the sisters’ General Chapter meeting in 2016, they established the Justice Coordinating Commission (JCC). From that group, the Climate Change Task Force (CCTF) was birthed, and for the past year, both groups have addressed the issue of climate change for the Sisters of Providence. This summer, the task force intends to present to the public its Providence Climate Agreement. Look for more information regarding this agreement in an upcoming blog....
Teaching, healing and loving as a Sister of Providence
Sister Eileen Rose Bonner, center, visits with Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates at a gathering in 2014 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. (In the week leading up to World Day for Consecrated Life on Feb. 2, several Sisters of Providence will be sharing their stories. Stay tuned to the blog to hear their tales of living as women religious.) I sit here at 6:30 a.m. staring at a blank screen. “Would you please write about your life as a Sister of...
A legacy of humor, trust, patience and kindness
...wonder the phrase “all appearances are against it” was an initial observation on their arrival. 50 years of living the legacy of Saint Mother Theodore: from left, Sister Marianne Ridgell (blog post author) and Sisters Jan Craven and Jody O’Neil Another quality Mother Theodore expressed so well is kindness. She shows kindness in trying to accept not only her own difficult situation but also some personality conflicts which tried her patience. Some qualities seemed to just flow from her person: humor,...
Teen finds happiness in volunteering with the Sisters of Providence
...happy.” I realize how true this quote is. As I became more comfortable while volunteering, I realized how happy it made me. I felt true happiness while helping the sisters. I started to notice that just our presence made them happy. Blog post author Madeleine volunteers doing a craft with Sister Mary Catherine Keene. I am definitely not a dancer, but on the first volunteer day this June, the teens all danced to music, some of which was played by...