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A Prayer by Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ
David Brunsma (far left) and Sister Helen Prejean, both speakers at Human Rights Day in 2009, greet local activists. God of Compassion, You let your rain fall on the just and the unjust. Expand and deepen our hearts so that we may love as You love, even those among us who have caused the greatest pain by taking life. For there is in our land a great cry for vengeance as we fill up death rows and kill the killers...
A remarkable woman
...finished when they arrived in Indiana. Arrangements had been made for them to stay with a local farmer in his small farmhouse. Mother Theodore recognized that they could not exist for long under these conditions, and she was also anxious to open her school. She consulted the bishop, and he agreed they would turn the house currently under construction for the sisters into the academy. They purchased the farmhouse from the owner and used it as their motherhouse for the...
Connecting with Creation
...will be moved to the gardens and harvested throughout the growing season for the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. CSA shareholders pay up front for their vegetables, fruit, honey and value-added products and pick them up either weekly or every other week. Produce is also sold at the Downtown Terre Haute Farmers’ Market, prepared by the Sisters of Providence Food Services staff for the dining rooms and donated to local food pantries and homeless shelters. The amount of fresh produce...
Opening new doors
...of Providence and volunteers, worked hard with the Cristo Rey Network to create the school, which is a college prepartory program that includes work study at local businesses. Students come from families that cannot afford other private school options. Students spend four days a week in classes and one day a week at a corporate job site, such as Eli Lilly, AIT Laboratories, Advantage Heath, many downtown law firms, as well as St. Vincent, St. Francis and Community hospitals. Businesses...
In their own words: Dan Thralls
...basis with her. What was it like to be at Mass with the Holy Father? As far back as I can remember either the sisters or my grandfather were telling me the story about Mother Theodore staying at Sarah and Joseph’s house. But everything Mother Theodore accomplished always struck me as a local story, and I didn’t realize until yesterday [the Mass of Canonization Oct. 15] how globally she really impacted the community and the world. You see the Pope...
Miracle place: it’s more than just a name
...Barbara and Rita Ann were off and running. It didn’t take long to win over the naysayers, though. In just five years, the ministry has become fully supported by their own base of donors and gets superb support from local police, the neighborhood watch and residents. The residents are a mix of elderly people who have lived there for decades and renters who may only stay a few weeks or months. Alarmingly, considering the nature of life in the neighborhood,...
Guerin Outreach Ministries: Catholic religious sisters offer English classes, friendship to residents of St. Anthy Trailer Park in rural Mecca, Calif.
...the Desert herself. She learned quickly and showed great talent. The Sisters helped find a local business, Burrtec Waste Management, to subsidize her so that she could quit her jobs and study full time at the Adult School in Coachella. Now Martha also teaches classes for Providence in the Desert, helping others who like her may have been in the country many years but speak little or no English. One of Langarica’s students, 43-year-old Elvira Castellanos, comes home from her...
Letter from a saint: to Rev. J. Bouvier
...Catholics of this locality have for the past thirty years seen a priest only once a month, in passing, and some even only once a year. They are Christians, yet for the most part, very ignorant, scarcely knowing what is absolutely indispensable. Their daughters, brought up in our school where there is, I may say, a good spirit, return home like little apostles. They are listened to so much the more willingly because they are greatly loved. You would be...
Reflection from Burundi, Africa
...as it was, and am realizing how lucky we really are. Most of us, including me, have no idea how the rest of the world attempts to survive on a subsistence diet. The CRS Lenten rice bowl will take on a special meaning for me this year. The meal that we have for lunch is prepared by a local woman who cooks the food in her home, and then sends her son to serve the food and collect the money....
Sister Norene Golly (formerly Sister Charlotte Ann)
...Magdalen [Schwartz, RIP] helped her with. She loved to read, usually mysteries, and made many trips to the local library, bringing home all the latest books,” said Sister Margaret. “Sister Joan also recalled that she was a big fan of the Chicago Bears, while Sister Noralee told how she loved playing cards with her family, and especially enjoyed beating her nephew at cards — particularly when they played for money,” said Sister Margaret. “Sister Norene’s illness made for a difficult...
General Superior summons foundress to support new SMWC president
...in your interactions with others the living out of advice Mother Theodore gave to a sister just named superior of a local convent: ‘The talent of a good Superior is … to require of each one only what she can give.’ May you continue to experience the gifts of wisdom this requires! The office of president brings blessings and trials. Through it all may you continue to rely on the presence of God in your life, may you continue to...
Women’s History Month: English as a Second Language
...and she was not sufficiently established to take a stand. Then, too, it seemed that in Mary Doyle they had a valuable acquisition. She was about twenty-five years old, well educated in French and English, a good musician, and reputed to be an excellent teacher. She knew the locale well, for she had taught at Vincennes for almost three years. She was what Sister Theodore needed most of all: an English teacher. To learn English was a vital need for...