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Photos from Sisters Speak Out: June 24 Community Prayer and Rally
...same day, with more than 50 Congregations of women religious. Sister Barbara Battista, SP, and Sister Joni Luna, SP, along with postulant Maité Rodriguez-Mora, attended the event in Washington, D.C. At the local event, the Sisters of Providence prayed the rosary, a Catholic Scripture based prayer. The event also focused on elements of love, mercy and justice. Community members were invited to the local event, which was set up as a way for those whose faith compelled them to stand...
Remembering a ‘Star Teacher’
...local Catholic high school open to all denominations. Sister Helen Rose was born in Indianapolis on April 9, 1911, one of eight children of Arthur Newland and Mary Ann Donohue Newland. Sister’s given name at birth was Helen Elizabeth Newland. In 1927, she joined the Sisters of Providence, a religious community headquartered at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. In 1935, Sister made her “perpetual vows” in the community, thus becoming a fully-professed Sister. She died at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on March 25, 1996. (Note:...
White Violet Center for Eco-Justice partners: B’s are the best!
“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.” ― Leo Tolstoy It’s no secret that gardeners love bees. They help pollinate crops, make honey, and are a welcome sign of a healthy biome. But did you know our love for bees extends to our partners around the area – businesses that are committed to supporting local farms and food? And it just so happens, they all start...
2022 Season of Creation: Love of Creation Impels Us!
Providence Community Celebrates Season of Creation 2022 Note: We are celebrating the Season of Creation (Sept. 1, World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation through Oct. 4, the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi). The Sisters of Providence Climate Change Task Force will share 10 blogs throughout this time. We hope you enjoy them. We began by celebrating the opening of the Season of Creation and the World Day of Prayer at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and in our local...
Sister Mary Stella Morrissey
...Indianapolis. Her sister Pat was not interested, but Mary Frances was. Accordingly, she enrolled as a freshman at St. Agnes and lived there with several other boarders who helped out with school and convent duties. Always friendly and generous, she had a favorite extracurricular activity of helping out at the local Little Sisters of the Poor. In fact, at one point she seriously considered joining their congregation,” continued Sister Alexa. After her graduation from St. Agnes, Sister Mary Stella entered...
Sister Marianne (Trinita Marie) McGriffin
...an adventurer who once walked under Niagara Falls during a retreat, who gladly accepted a ride in a hot air balloon, and who, following in the footsteps of our saint, Mother Theodore, found a creative response to a clerical obstacle. “She was an engaged participant in SP community meetings, with ‘a beautiful way of pulling everyone’s ideas together into one’ according to a member of her Local Government Unit, who added, ‘she loved doing this,’” continued Sister Rosemary. “She was...
What have we to do in order to become saints?
...answer e-mail, live in a local community of six, cook, clean, pray, read. My “every day” always includes interactions with people — sisters, staff, business colleagues, visitors, associates — and on and on. So how is this mish-mash I call my “every day” making me a saint, allowing me to become happily and fully the person, the woman, the Sister of Providence, the ministerial woman of the Church Providence intends for me to be? Oh — I know Mother Theodore’s...
Prayer in troubled times
Sister Denise Wilkinson in a moment of prayer. Some days ago I received a request from a local newspaper reporter who was preparing an article about the 10th anniversary of the catastrophic events here in the U.S. on 9/11/01. She asked me if I thought people tended to turn to prayer at times of tragedy or turmoil. If so, why did I think that was so? I have to admit, I was uncomfortable with the questions. Maybe not as uncomfortable...
Bringing beauty into the world – the late Sister Cecilia Clare Bocard
...an article in a local newspaper in 1990, she said, “‘At home, I could not have possibly afforded the teachers and wonderful education provided here. … It has been a very fulfilling life.’” With the knowledge and training she received through the years, Sister Cecilia Clare certainly gave back to the Congregation many times over. She played the organ for Mass and other celebrations at the Church of the Immaculate Conception from 1929 until her death in 1994. Her musical...
Missionary spirit of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...the heart is inaccessible to fear.” Certainly she had given her all for this mission. At last they had arrived. “What was our astonishment to find ourselves still in the midst of a forest, no village, not even a house in sight.” The house the bishop had built for them was not finished. Arrangements had been made for them to stay with a local farmer in his small farmhouse. Four postulants were waiting there for them, which brought their number...
Sister Virginia Broderick
...Francis Borgia, Chicago, and then tutored for two years at the school. “The fact that there were so many young sisters sent to work with Sister Virginia attests that she was highly regarded as an educator who would work patiently with the new teachers, even though a lot of her life she suffered from the results of a serious burn which she suffered while preparing breakfast for her local community,” said Sister Mary Ann. “After many years of teaching, Sister...
Historic mural of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin unveiled
...dates and everything. But now, the older I get, the more interested in history I become. I’m interested in more local history than United States history. I’m interested in what has happened right here on the very land that we walk on.” Saint Mother Theodore “walked on” land at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods for 16 years before her death in 1856. The mural will be on display at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods through May 22. About the Sisters of Providence The Sisters of Providence,...