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Sisters of Providence Land Ethic
...as we seek to balance our individual and SP communal economic needs with the sustainability needs of Earth community. The following commitments will guide our decisions regarding the care and use of our resources. Care and use of resources We will conserve natural resources and preserve species unique to an area. We will make every effort to use non-toxic materials that will not poison Earth community in the present or in the future. We will promote conservation and reduction of...
Living Providence: What It Meant to Be a Sister of Providence Today
...and Emily TeKolste smile with Providence Associate Ezra Meaders. The second selection on the “Call to Community” reads: “Community is formed by faith, hope and love lived not only in moments of light and peace but also in the pain and darkness of human existence.” Life in community is an extraordinary gift. I know that I am with persons who share in the mission, who support one another and lift up one another. We rejoice and weep together and are...
Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the mission to Asia
...the sisters’ departure from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods came at last. On September 29 before dawn the sisters for the foreign mission were already at prayer in the chapel of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. At 6:30 a.m. Bishop Joseph Chartrand celebrated Mass for the assembled community. At 9:00 Reverend (later Archbishop) Edward Howard, brother of Sister Eugene Marie, celebrated a Solemn High Mass, at which Bishop Chartrand preached. After the sermon, the significant ceremony of the day – the presentation of...
Racial and Ecological Documentary: Inhabitants
March 5, 2025 at 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST Community Room, Providence Hall 1 Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 United States View Location Website Sisters of Providence Land Justice Future’s Focus Community Program Free, but able to donate at each screening. Join the Land Justice Futures (formally Nuns & Nones) Focus Communities* to view two special film screenings hosted exclusively for Land Justice Futures communities. Inhabitants is an incredible documentary that lifts up why ecological and racial healing are intimately...
SMWC names Conservatory of Music Auditorium in honor of Sister Marie Brendan Harvey
...Music houses an auditorium, a historic treasure opened in 1913. The 735-seat auditorium is patterned after the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany, which was destroyed during World War II. Although a beloved treasure, years of deferred maintenance took a toll on the Conservatory of Music’s auditorium. “There was no question about the need for renovations. The space no longer provided an ideal enjoyable experience for the community, which is the ultimate goal of the space. It needed to be refreshed,” explained...
Belonging with the Sisters of Providence: Providence Associate Marilyn Rausch
...bond in Providence. This is a great source of strength and encouragement, and promotes the feeling of community. 3. Living as consciously and fully as I can the mission of love, justice and mercy in my everyday duties. 4. Accepting the call to do visible work with and in the Sisters of Providence community and the Providence Associates, such as serving on the Providence Associates advisory board, on the Saint Mother Theodore Guerin FEST committee and volunteering at various programs....
Sister Tracey decides to “roll and trust the gravity of grace” as an SP novice
Sister Carol Kimes (left) has companioned Sister Tracey Horan for several years. Editor’s note: Sister Tracey Horan recently entered her Canonical Novice year with the Sisters of Providence. She asked in her request to the Congregation, “Beckoned by the rich legacy of Mother Theodore and the mission of Providence as I have witnessed it lived in this community, I move freely and intentionally into this time of deeper discernment. I come as I am, incomplete and evolving, as part of...
Sister Anna Fan hopes that as a novice, her “spiritual life can grow deeper and wider”.
...what’s been different? I did not expect too much about my training. I just opened and prepared my mind and my heart to receive what the community offered me. In past generations the training was more serious, this community places more value and respect on personal development. 3. What are you looking forward to, as a Novice? As a Novice I hope that my spiritual life can grow deeper and wider. I hope to learn more about our foundress and...
Blessing the new columbarium at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
“It just seemed ‘right,’” said Sister Ann Casper, Providence Community Cemetery minister, about the decision to create Providence Community Cemetery at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. On Nov. 9, 2019, the new columbarium was blessed and the first cremains interred. Providence Associate Heather Tetzlaff Smith was the first person interred in the new columbarium. Sisters of Providence, Providence Associates and members of Heather’s family gathered for the blessing and interment. It was Heather’s mother’s request that her daughter’s cremains be interred at the...
Behind the peaceful vigil
...community were showing that they wanted to express their feelings about what happened in Charlottesville. The instrumental possibilities were less clear on the surface. In this case, we weren’t asking for a specific decision from government, like “Vote no on SB 309” or “Remove X statue.” But, we saw that this could bring us closer to our goals of a peaceful and just community in several ways. Our expression could serve as a statement to white supremacists and neo-Nazis in...
Foundation day through a young sister’s eyes
...starters, although Dina attended a public elementary school, it was called Providence Elementary. Their mascot seemed to Dina the perfect embodiment of Mother Theodore and her companions – the Pioneers. Then, in her college years at Virginia Tech, Dina encountered a dining hall called Owens Hall and a dorm called O’Shaughnessy. Sound familiar? (She would later live in the formation community in Owens Hall and attend community meetings in O’Shaughnessy Dining Room!) On top of all this, Dina had a...
Spiritual companions in the Woods: Providence Associate candidate orientation 2019
...God and with the Sisters of Providence community? Learn more about becoming a Providence Associate. Join us! Sister Joan Kirkpatrick and her Providence Associate Candidate Companion Sue Sheeran enjoy the beautiful day while getting to know one another better New Providence Associate candidates are blessed by the Providence community Providence Associate Candidate Mary Gemma speaks with her sister companion Providence Associate Marilyn Webb companions candidate Carol Ann Woodfall Candidate Rita O’Donohue and her sister companion Sister Mary Rita Griffin walk...