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Community from afar
...in 2011. “I stay in contact through emails, area meetings, LGU [Local Government Unit] meetings, committees on which I serve, and service on the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Board of Trustees,” Sister Janet said. “I feel connected, although I sometimes miss being closely involved with convent life.” Sister Helen offers a similar thought. “I share with my sisters news of what I am doing and all that relates to our general mission and my work here in South Louisiana. I do...
Sister Claire Hanson
...at various stages of my growth when I questioned my life and where it might turn. Those were the days that I definitely took a giant leap of faith. “With the help of close mentors along with the support of my local communities at the time, I am able to re-commit myself daily to God and to the SPs. Sustained by prayer Part of Sister Claire’s current ministry is work as a home health care provider, allowing older people who...
Frances Ginther awarded Guerin Outreach Ministries Leadership and Advocacy Award
Frances Ginther was named the recipient of the Guerin Outreach Ministries Leadership and Advocacy Award for 2013 for her role in helping to found and advise the ministry. Guerin Outreach Ministries supports three localized ministries of the Sisters of Providence that serve people in need. Frances Ginther of Gary, Ind., was recently named the Guerin Outreach Ministries Leadership and Advocacy Award recipient for 2013. Guerin Outreach Ministries is a ministry of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. It...
Sister Kathleen Bernadette Smith: Joyful collaboration in a prophetic mission
Sister Kathleen Bernadette Smith, center, serves as godmother at the baptism of this infant several years ago at St. Felicitas Parish in Chicago. Sister Kathleen has served as pastoral associate there for nearly 20 years. Sister Kathleen Bernadette Smith has ministered almost 20 years as a pastoral associate at St. Felicitas Parish in Chicago. She collaborates with parish staff, parishioners, local community leaders, archdiocesan and SP-led teams and committees to proclaim the Gospel in a joyful, prophetic way richly textured...
Reflections from our Golden Jubilees
...60s! Change was everywhere. My years of teaching taught me that I didn’t have enough background to deal with increasingly troubled students and families. I studied counseling psychology to better understand the dynamics at play in our families. As mental health monies were being severely cut, my paid internship at the local hospital evaporated. However, the father of two of our students was a psychologist at the local community mental health center. Enter Providence! When I called him, they had...
A legacy of hospitality
Sisters of Providence offer forward hospitality shown their founding sisters in 1840 by the Thralls family in their home, shown here. One does not have to be around the Sisters of Providence long before hearing the “founding story” of the incredible hospitality of the Thralls family. They are the pioneer couple who took in Mother Theodore Guerin, her five sister companions and four women prospects when they arrived in 1840. Their promised convent-home was not yet ready. Local farmers Sarah...
Stitching a thanksgiving “quilt of words” together
...Praying, a Thanksgiving prayer included in our monthly SP mailing that goes to all of our local communities and lastly, a “holy card” that slipped out of a book I had been reading months ago, stopped reading and just picked up today. In the end, the little card is the scrap that caught my fancy and started me stitching my word crazy quilt together. Allow me to empty before you my basket of scraps. I leave it to you, dear...
A look back at Educational/Family Services
Sister Regina Norris helps a little boy with his reading in 2014 from the parlor in her home, Providence Hall. A clipping from the local newspaper in 1999 shows some of the Educational/Family Services volunteers (then under the umbrella ministry of Providence Self-Sufficiency Ministries) at a Tutor Appreciation Dinner. A volunteer tutors a student after school in 2012. EFS Director Penny Sullivan prepares to be interviewed by the local news during an open house for the ministry in 2010. Saint...
Living as a young nun
...it’s part of “normal” life process. “At one point, I thought about searching another type of life such as getting married and having a family,” she said. “I finished college and started my medical profession in a local hospital. At the same time, I was always searching for a way to freely worship God and serve the people. “I never gave up the idea of trying religious life first. After I came to the United States and started the discernment...
Sculptor and security: Bill Wolfe
...30, another one of his pieces was unveiled. For a handful of months, Bill has worked on the Golden Bear monument in honor of former Terre Haute Schulte High School. The Golden Bear was the school’s mascot. Schulte High School was a Catholic institution of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and many Sisters of Providence taught there. Bill said local lawyers Tom Newlin and Mike Eldred commissioned him to create the monument, which stands in front of where the school used...
‘Change our politics and not just our policies’
...and areas of concern within our local community. “… Sister Simone approached the podium and applause resounded before she spoke a word. Those in attendance were honored by her presence and the presence of those traveling with her. Sister Simone, standing in her own authenticity, offered a genuine sense of hospitality to the crowd. “… Having been invited into small group sharing, participants surfaced issues of injustices within the city and surrounding counties. Racism, immigration, limited public transportation, poverty, lack...
On the shores of history – The gift of a Dover sunrise!
...waiting for transport across the channel to a new life. Christian churches are in the forefront of those stepping up to provide assistance. Rev. Dr. Ford works with the Board of Christians Together in Dover (CTID), an ecumenical group committed to “promoting the Christian faith … and furthering the spread of God’s Kingdom by associating together with each other, local inhabitants, government and local authorities, voluntary and other organizations in a common effort to advance greater knowledge of the Christian...