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A Reflection for the 2025 Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...I learned that 300 immigrants are being held at the Clay County Jail down the road in Brazil, Indiana. The jail functions as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center. General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski offering her reflection during the 2025 Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Feast Day Mass. What Would She Do Today? It would be easy to lose hope. As I prepared for this gathering of the Providence Community, this remembering of a woman we celebrate as a...
Reunited joyfully: Annual meeting 2022
The Providence Community came together for the Sisters of Providence Annual Meeting from June 26-29, 2022. Providence Associates joined on Sunday and Monday to discuss justice initiatives for the coming year. It was so wonderful to be together again! We enjoyed our time of learning, praying, visiting and planning. Are you interested in joining the Providence Community as a Sister of Providence or Providence Associate? Sisters Joni Luna, Dororthy Rasche and Carol Meyers catch up during a break Sister Rosemary...
Reflections from the 2018 Golden/Silver Jubilee Celebration
...a less tumultuous time in the world, but the choice to enter religious life in 1993 was no longer something many Catholic women were doing. Why would Pat Linehan, after a 25-year career as a Navy Nurse, seek religious life? Why would Kathleen Bernadette Smith, an accomplished musician and a pastoral presence in her own African American community, seek life in a predominately white Providence community? It would be easy for me to say that the answer to these questions...
Archives: telling our story of living the Gospel
...meticulous record keeper, she established the groundwork for 182 years of storytelling. Our past is now preserved in records, photographs, oral histories, news articles and memoirs. In the Archives today you will find files documenting the lives of the 2,336 deceased Sisters of Providence. You can peruse the Entrance Book, with the handwritten names, parents’ names, hometowns and dates of entrance of everyone who has come to this Community, beginning with Mother Theodore herself. Mother Theodore’s original letters are carefully...
Sister Jessica Vitente: Leading and being led to God
...in service with one another, to the campus community and the community at large. Most importantly, the Center must let students know they are loved, accepted and belong to the community. Sister Jessica shared a vivid description of how she perceives her role in fulfilling the mission of the Newman Center. “I see myself as carrying a flashlight. The students and I move forward together on a common journey. I am in the lead. As time goes on, the student...
If ever this poor little Community…
If ever this poor little Community becomes settled, it will be established on the cross; and that is what gives me confidence and makes me hope, sometimes even against hope.
Community prayer
...of Providence I will unfold. You are a remarkable piece of the puzzle of humanity. Let me fit you into the big picture according to my design. You will radiate energy and love, creativity and light beyond imagination. You will not be alone but an integral part of a community of men and women who will walk with you, challenge you, form you as I wish. Do I hear your “Yes?” With a deep breath rising from trust, I respond:...
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin: bearing the light still today
...to fail. She looks at the goal and doesn’t give up,” Emily said. “Her perseverance inspires me. She faced seemingly insurmountable challenges. Things that I don’t have any way to identify with. Hunger — not being able to eat normal foods with the rest of the community. But also fear of hunger for the people she was in charge of caring for. To imagine — these people are your responsibility and you can’t even feed them. It must have weighed...
Sister Charlotte Bruck
...was one of best calligraphers in the Community.” “I was a classmate of Sister Charlotte in high school, but our paths did not cross often in the Community. However, some years ago she entrusted to me a letter from Sister Mary Pius Regnier [general superior from 1966-1976]. She instructed me: ‘This is the best ‘eulogy’ I could have; so I want you to see that it’s part of the vesper commentary,’” shared Sister Alexa. “Sister Mary Pius wrote birthday greetings...
Days of Serving
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Cesar Chavez Service and Learning, and 9/11 National Day of Service are a few regional, and sometimes national, days of service. One of many international examples is Community Service Day celebrated in Dominica, a Caribbean island, every November 4th. Service and serving certainly go hand in hand. Service is the act of helping while serving calls to mind a more intimate and personal, possibly emotionally demanding, action. The image that pops into my mind...
Find greater meaning, community as a Providence Associate
If you are looking for spiritual enrichment, support, a community or a sense of mission, God may be nudging you to become a Providence Associate of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Providence Associate Stephen Modde enjoys time with other associates. Applications are being accepted for those considering being a Providence Associate in the coming year until June 30. Providence Associates are people of faith, ages 18 years and older, who share their own unique gifts and talents...
Sister Gertrude Eileen Getrey
Sister Gertrude Eileen Getrey “Happy those who discover Wisdom, those who gain discernment.” (Proverbs 3:13) “Sister Gertrude Eileen Getrey died last Saturday at the age of 102, the oldest sister in community. During her lifetime, there were 18 presidents of the United States, from President Theodore Roosevelt to President Barack Obama; 10 popes, from Pope Leo XIII to Pope Benedict XVI; and 11 general superiors of the Sisters of Providence, from Mother Mary Cleophas Foley to Sister Denise Wilkinson. That...