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Leadership Team shares LCWR statement on threats against HBCUs
Note: The following is a statement from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) of which the Sisters of Providence are members. Released on Thursday, February 2, 2022 The Leadership Conference of Women Religious deplores the recent spate of threats of violence and attempts to disrupt the vitally important work of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). We denounce this latest demonstration of racial hate and condemn racism in all its forms whether the violent acts of Neo-Nazis and White...
Celebrating a Black Woman Supreme Court Justice – A Justice for Our Times
Note: We are sharing the following statement, which was issued on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, by The National Black Sisters Conference (NBSC), NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). We are members of LCWR and our own Sister Emily TeKolste ministers with NETWORK. February 23, 2022 As Catholic women, rooted in our faith’s call to love one another and see God in every person, we strongly support the Biden administration’s promise to nominate...
Congregation shares LCWR statement on action to prevent gun violence
Note: We wanted to share this statement with you, which was created by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). The Killing Must End: LCWR Calls for Action to Prevent Gun Violence Our hearts and prayers go out to those parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, and uncles who lost their precious children and to all who have been touched by the massacre at Robb Elementary School. Unfortunately, their heartbreak has become all too familiar to students, teachers, and parents across the...
Congregation shares statement on MPP ruling
Note: The following is a joint press release from the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). We stand in solidarity with this statement, which was released on Thursday, June 30, 2022. Catholic Leaders Welcome Supreme Court Ruling in Biden v. Texas WASHINGTON – Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a 5-4 decision in Biden v. Texas, finding that the Secretary of Homeland Security’s termination of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP)...
Summer Used Book Sale
July 28, 2023 at 10:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT The Foley Room at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center 1 Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 Sisters of Providence Free Browse hundreds of gently-used books at our summer sale in the Foley Room across from Linden Leaf Gifts in Providence Spirituality & Conference Center. Your donation is your price....
Plan to join us for our Volunteer Open House!
The Volunteer Services Department of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, will have an open house from 9-11 a.m., EDT, on Thursday, May 18, in the Foley Room of Providence Spirituality & Conference Center. The open house is a great opportunity for those who have not yet signed up to volunteer for the sisters to get to know the volunteer opportunities in your backyard while enjoying some coffee, tea and light snacks. As the Volunteer Coordinator, I will...
Newsnotes from HOPE summer 2023
...the one here. Sister Marilyn Baker offers spiritual help, only 5 cents, to Archbishop Thompson of Indianapolis. Sisters of Providence on the road Sisters of Providence have been sharing the mission of love, mercy and justice and the story of Saint Mother Theodore far and wide. Vocation Director Sister Joni Luna, SP, and a group of sisters set up at the SEEK conference for Catholic college students in January. They traveled to the LA Religious Education Congress in February. In...
Sister Helen Vinton (formerly Sister Helen Jean)
...develop along the way.” After leaving Ladywood-St. Agnes, Helen spent five years with the Rural Life Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, where she did research and wrote policy. This was probably somewhat of an “internship,” if you will, for her more than 40 years ministering at the Southern Mutual Help Association in New Iberia, Louisiana. Her titles changed considerably through the years but the focus was always on the sugarcane plantation farmworkers in a role of advocacy, sustainability, resource development...
LCWR, Providence Community stand in solidarity with the people of the Middle East
NOTE: The Providence Community, in association with all members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), stand with the people of the Middle East in condemning the violence currently playing out in the Middle East. We call for a ceasefire and peaceful resolution of the conflict. We invite each member of the Providence Community and all who may read this statement to undertake a day of prayer and fasting for the peaceful resolution of this conflict. The Sisters of...
Sister Clelia Cecchetti (formerly Sister Rosina)
...and Finance Clerk Cashier. The next 18 years from 1994 t 2012, she pursued several ministries in Washington, D.C., as receptionist at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, as Administrative Secretary for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and finally as a volunteer for the Little Sisters of the Poor at the Jeanne Jugan residence for the elderly. In 2010, when she tendered her resignation from the USCCB Office of Liturgy, the director, Msgr. David Molloy,...
Summer Used Book Sale
July 26, 2024 at 10:00 am – August 5, 2024 at 4:00 pm EDT Linden Leaf Gifts, Providence Spirituality & Conference Center 1 Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 Sisters of Providence Free Our annual Summer Used Book Sale at the Woods is an adventure for book lovers! Come and browse through hundreds of books from mystery novels to cookbooks, biographies and everything in between. The sale begins on July 26 and concludes on August 5. Times are 10...
Providence Community Bake Sale
December 14, 2024 at 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm EST Providence Spirituality & Conference Center 1 Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 United States Sisters of Providence Free Are you craving some special, delicious baked goods? We’re baking up lots of goodies that will hit the spot. Join us Dec. 14, from 1:30-4:30 p.m., for the Providence Community Bake Sale in the Providence Spirituality and Conference Center at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. We will have all kinds of special goodies....