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HOPE winter 2023 — Creating a new day
...funds to mitigate the effects of climate change. Practical ideas to combat climate change Here are some ideas Providence Community members suggested that we could do to combat climate change. Maybe you could join us! Why the Providence Community? “I feel drawn to Mother Theodore’s zeal, courage, caring and loving, especially her complete trust in the Providence of God. I want to grow deeper in my love for God and in the zeal to serve others as a Sister of...
Sisters and nearby community celebrate Easter
It was a joyous Easter service on Sunday, with bright, aroma-filled flowers, sisters singing and triumphant piano and organ music. Families in the Wabash community regularly attend Mass with the Sisters of Providence and today was no exception. A set of Zimbelstern bells was recently installed on the organ, adding beautiful tinkling and chiming sounds during many songs. The bells were graciously donated by Dr. Herminia Din and Dr. Darrell Bailey, in honor of Sisters Agnes Joan Li and Donna...
Providence Food Pantry to celebrate 25 years
...Haute, from 2 to 4 p.m., for an open house. All are invited to come and see what pantry director Sister Joseph Fillenwarth said “what the West Terre Haute community is providing for those needing a helping hand at this time.” Sister Joseph said the pantry served more than 4,000 families and 16,000 individuals in 2018. “This is accomplished by all volunteers and donations from a loving and generous community – especially the Helping Hands, nine local churches and local...
Catholic and Gay
...let us first begin by looking at language, terminology in particular. LGBTQ, for example, means lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer. The definitions and other common terms used in describing people within the LGBTQ community are: Androgynous – partly male and partly female in appearance, Bisexual – a person experiences romantic, emotional or sexual attraction to both men and women, Cisgender – a person whose internal sense of gender aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth, Dyke –...
Community prayer via Skype™
...going strong every day since. The trio also uses Skype to discuss Congregation materials. “It’s rare that we miss a day,” adds Sister Brigid. “If we have a schedule conflict, we simply change the time of our prayer. This has been a wonderful way to build community among us, enabling us to be supportive and accountable to one another. It is a time that we look forward to each day.” (Originally published in the Winter 2014 issue of HOPE magazine.)...
Providence Cristo Rey High School: 10 years of changing lives in Indianapolis
...want to come. You are my family, my community. But my school shoes are locked in the house and we cannot enter.” Sister Jeanne assured her she could come (barefoot if need be!) and that the school community would be there waiting for her. Meanwhile, students were apprised of the situation and given some guidance about how “to be” with her. Sure enough, she arrived, and the students, faculty and staff embraced her with love. Despite that tragedy, Alisa carried...
A celebration: The Resurrection of Jesus
...with Jesus in his rebirth! We are resurrected and reborn. We are transformed. Think of the foreshadowing of the Anastasis in the Transfiguration of Jesus. Jesus is accompanied by Peter, James and John. Jesus’ message is always to the community. It is holistic, not individualistic. Rebirth occurs in relationship. How are we moving toward a holistic understanding of Love, Mercy and Justice? Are we bringing our individual gifts to the community at large to foster the One? Happy Anastasis! Alleluia!...
Sister Luke Crawford
...was not the one Father Dan wanted because Luke was assumed to be a male. After a little while, Father Dan found our Sister Luke and was able to anoint her prior to her death. Sister Luke is described as having a wonderful community spirit. She was attentive to the members of her community, especially the older sisters. She was also quite a jokester. For example, the dining room of the ancient convent in Washington, Ind., had a mysterious door...
Update: St. Mary’s Senior Housing
New life for Owens Hall July 2020 upate: Construction has begun at St. Mary’s Senior Housing project at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Learn more at Flaherty & Collins. Newsnotes summer 2019 In November, the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) awarded tax credits for St. Mary’s Senior Housing project. This will allow Owens Hall at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to be developed into apartments serving low-income seniors. Flaherty & Collins Properties of Indianapolis will develop and manage the project. Construction could begin...
Get to know Providence Associate David Hudgens
...this, and I believe she would be happy that so many people are working in their communities to continue on the charism she held dear. What are your hopes for the Providence community into the future? I hope that more of the generations younger than me will be inspired the way I was and join the Providence Community in one way or another. I’m aware numbers and involvement in any type of organization anymore has become a challenge. I have...
Sister Ellen Cunningham (formerly Sister Michael Aquinas)
...until illness prevented her daily trek to Guerin Hall. Ellen did manage three sabbaticals in her lengthy career – one in computer programming in Chicago (how’s that for a sabbatical!), the other year split between Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles and the Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio, Texas. A careful look at these seemingly dry facts reveals much about Ellen. Her life was a web of relationships she cherished: Her family, her Sisters of Providence community,...
A ‘Golden Jubilee’ Reflection
...and this community of Providence continues to need you – in the words of Isaiah in our first reading – to be a light of nations. Again, Pope Francis offers advice. He would like those in the Consecrated Life to be “experts in communion.” “In a polarized society, where different cultures experience difficulty in living alongside one another, where the powerless encounter oppression, where inequality abounds, we are called to offer a concrete model of community which, by acknowledging the...