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New postulant enters Sisters of Providence
...as a volunteer in the local area as well as take time volunteering with other Sisters of Providence across the country. She added Tracey will live within the formation community of the Sisters of Providence, located in Owens Hall. Sister Marsha said Tracey got to know the Sisters of Providence through her experience as a volunteer with White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. After a year in the postulancy, Tracey will be eligible to enter into the first year of the...
Sisters Lucy and Mary Fran cook up a good time
...benefit Providence Family Services in Chicago. For the past five years, Sisters Mary Fran Keusal (formerly Sister Ann Marion) and Lucy Nolan (formerly Sister Mary Lucille) have volunteered feeding volunteers and the shoppers at the annual sale. The two sisters are retired teachers and parish ministers. Their current volunteer ministry includes offering bereavement support for a local hospice. Sisters Lucy and Mary Fran said that Sister Patty Fillenwarth, the sale’s coordinator, has the organization of the sale down to a...
Providence Self-Sufficiency Ministries: Celebrating 20 years of success
...homes offer moms and dads reuniting with their children who are at risk of being placed in foster care or reunites the children leaving foster care with their parents. Local agencies also collaborate with PSSM to provide the services. Melissa Bline, who lived with at Providence Housing, arrived at the celebration and said she enjoys visiting the sisters still. “It was fun,” she said. “The sisters listened to us and compromised the best they could.” Facility associate Elizabeth England added...
Rosaline Secrest: Prayer, support and social justice
This Rooted for Tomorrow story was contributed by Rosaline Secrest for the 175th anniversary of the Sisters of Providence arriving in Indiana. Rosaline Secrest (pink shirt, back row) with her Pax Christi group of Sisters of Providence, Providence Associates and friends. For more than 30 years, I have been blessed to join with Sisters of Providence in a local Pax Christi group. We get together monthly to pray and support each other with our various social justice concerns. In this...
Reflections on Shrine for Saint Mother Theodore
...the opening. Sister Nancy Nolan speaks with a group starting their tour of the Shrine. Two Schulte high school alums are interviewed by a local television reporter Jon Swanter about their experience in the shrine. Staff member Jena Thralls-Robertson chats with her mother, Kim Thralls, and her Aunt Carol Thralls during the Shrine opening. Sister Dorothy Rache and a visitor. Sister Editha Ben, center, meets a group of pilgrims ready to take a shrine tour. Sister Kathleen Kelly chats with...
Anna Fan enters Sisters of Providence as postulant
...was taken to the parlor in Providence Hall for a prayer service, a blessing and the official welcome into the Congregation. “Anna will be learning everything she can learn about the Sisters of Providence, and that includes learning about community practices, traditions and ministries,” Sister Marsha said. Sister Marsha also said she will meet with Anna once a week for instructions and individual conferences. In addition, she said once a month, Anna will work as a volunteer in the local...
Sister Lourdes Kline
...the main building where our sisters had served for 80 years. Our local community dispersed to wherever they could find a ministry. Monsignor William Curlin, who was pastor at Nativity Church in Washington, told Sister Lourdes he had a job for her. She she went to work for him and that job evolved to working at Nativity Catholic Academy as administrative assistant to the principal, which she was for a number of years. As time went on and she grew...
Twenty-eight Sisters celebrate Jubilees
...Jan. 4, 1954, from St. Mary Cathedral, Lafayette. She professed perpetual vows Aug. 15, 1961. She graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods with a bachelor’s degree in education. She earned her master’s degree in education from Indiana University. Sister Maria has ministered in Oklahoma, Illinois and Indiana. Sister Marilyn is a native of Lafayette. She currently ministers as the local residence accounts manager of Central Business Office, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sister Marilyn, the former Sister Robert Louise, entered the Congregation Jan. 4, 1954,...
Celebrate the Light in our lives, amidst the world’s darkness, this season
...as the day of Christmas arrives. Why? The Dec. 14, 2014 slaying of 138 Pakistani children and the love, laughter, affection I witnessed as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and children of all ages visited our Woods on the Saturday before for our annual Christmas Fun at the Woods winter festival. (Check out the pictures of the festival on our website!) The Dec. 14, 2014 massacre of 138 Pakistani children and the delightful photos in our local newspaper of the Dec....
Digging deeper: misconceptions and immigration
...consumers, entrepreneurs, and inventors, immigrants create jobs and encourage business investment as local restaurants and stores respond to the needs of a growing population. The Chamber of Commerce summarizes, “The end result is more jobs for more workers.” Myth #4: The Catholic Church supports open, unregulated borders The Catholic Church as an institution does not support open borders or breaking laws related to border crossing. On the contrary, the Church recognizes the right of a sovereign state to regulate its...
Sister Edwardine McNulty
...replied, “Sister, I’m giving you permission!” Sister Dorothy Drobis’ remembrance of Edwardine’s compassion-over-rules goes back 50 years, to the time of her father’s death. Sister Edwardine was her companion to her home. They had made arrangements to stay with sisters at a local hospital, since this was before the days of staying with one’s family. When Edwardine found out that Dorothy’s mother would be alone that night, she informed Dorothy that they would stay with her mother and she canceled...
Providence Associates living out their commitments
...the St. Ann Shell Chapel there. One way that Providence Associate Marilyn Neuman, center, lives out her commitment as a Providence Associate is by volunteering to help senior citizens file their taxes at the local library in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Providence Associate Maureen Baca of Albuquerque, New Mexico, (standing, shown here at a meeting of Providence Associates) strives to do her work as a consultant in a spirit of love, mercy and justice. One way that Providence Associate William Pouncy...