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Remembering Sisters Amata Dugan and Michael Ellen Green
...the ministry of prayer in 2014. Sister Ann Casper, who wrote the commentary for Sister Amata’s obituary, said she was an “avid Notre Dame fan.” According to the commentary, during an interview with a reporter for The Tribune-Star, Sister Amata said, “In fact, if any of those big wigs you know have any extra tickets …” Sister Amata died on March 14, 2016. Sister Michael Ellen Green was born Dorothy Ellen Green on July 22, 1929, in Indianapolis, to George...
Remembering Sisters Mary Loyola Bender and Ann Kevin O’Connor
...one, Fannie Mae Turtle Candies or any kind of chocolate another, and for sure all forms of technology, from cell phones to computers to cameras to tablets.” This is a photo taken in 1960 of Sister Ann Kevin O’Connor. Sister Ann continued “… we knew her eye for beauty, which was reflected most obviously in her appearance.” Sister Ann also noted that Sister Ann Kevin’s father was an accomplished painter, which she also had a cousin who operated an art...
Newsnotes
...the Rooney Library on the college campus that evening as sisters and students bonded together over chocolate, fresh fruit and more! Fair trade coffee and hot chocolate were also available. Sister Mary Montgomery helps coordinate the event annually with campus minister Andrea Beyke in collaboration with the Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Scholarship students. This photo shows the Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Scholarship students showing off their “I’m a Fan” stickers they received during the event. Foundation Day service day Students...
Inclusion means joining the conversation
Women in formation with the Sisters of Providence who helped organize the Gathering in Solidarity at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods last Saturday. From left: Sisters Anna Fan, Dina Bato, Arrianne Whittaker, Corbin Hannah, Joni Luna, Tracey Horan and blog-post-author Emily TeKolste. Six Sisters of Providence attended the Women’s March on Washington last weekend. I wrote an article about their attendance. It received some backlash, and even more support, when we shared it on social media. Some commenters were disappointed sisters were attending...
Teaching, healing and loving as a Sister of Providence
...all of these years I also learned to laugh, to cry, to take pride in the accomplishments of “my kids.” Perhaps you know or have read about some of them. Each one followed his/her dream. Many have become fantastic parents — and grandparents. They’ve become a missionary to Korea and China, doctors, nurses, teachers, lawyers, an athletic director of a prestigious university, a CEO of a worldwide company. Then it came time for me to dust the chalk off my...
Sister Editha Ben
...Sisters Anna Fan, Joni Luna, My Huong Pham “It was an experience of the power of God and of forgiveness and healing. Now I can look back and put words to it to say that I was breaking boundaries and creating hope,” she said. Sister Editha’s excitement and enthusiasm about the Sisters of Providence overflows when she talks about the Congregation. “I like that the sisters are innovative visionaries. I like that the sisters are risk takers, like Mother Theodore....
A sister remembers working to racially integrate schools
...realize what it was to feel that I just didn’t belong – we didn’t belong with the white people.” After a few years of operating St. Ann’s as an integrated school, the sisters decided to integrate St. Patrick’s School as well. It started without fanfare, said Sister Joann Quinkert (formerly Sister Joan Margaret), who worked at both schools at various times in this period. St. Patrick’s just started accepting African American students who applied to the school. What success looked...
News Notes
Three sisters profess vows Three wonderful women made vows as Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana on June 25. Sisters Anna Fan and Tracey Horan professed first vows and Sister Dina Bato professed perpetual vows as a Sister of Providence. We are so blessed! Providence Associates celebrate 10 years The Providence Associates of the Sisters of Providence are celebrating their 10-year anniversary on Nov. 8, 2017. The festivities will include a celebratory anniversary Mass and reception. Providence Associates are...
Sister Pauline Brockelsby
...of the day. Expressing a choice of ministry was also an option, encouraging her to try parish catechetical work for a year before returning to high school teaching. When she and Sister Mary Blanche Murphy were invited to participate in a summer program visiting patients in a 900-bed hospital, she discovered a real calling. In an article she wrote for lay ministers, she phrased it this way: “Ministry is persons. Nothing fancy. Ministry is serving, getting involved, (using) the beautiful...
Sister Arrianne Whittaker: ‘Providence led me here’
...said. “But I needed to leave first to gain some life experience and work and live on my own, which I had never done before.” While her journey to the Community had some twists and turns, she knew where her heart was taking her. Sister Arrianne Whittaker (third from left) with Sisters of Providence (from left) Anna Fan, Dina Bato, Corbin Hannah, Joni Luna, Tracey Horan and Emily TeKolste outside of the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods....
Saint connects sisters across the ocean
...Mother Theodore as a fire hydrant! Her time at the Woods has strengthened her connection to her sister in community, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. “I think being able to walk in her footsteps. To walk around the place where she was. To go and sit and talk to her in the shrine, is something really special.” Sister Gill said. “I have this fantastic admiration for her to leave her country, the people that she knew, and to go to a...
A Sister Prom/Winter Dance!
...a walker. The more agile among them proved that they hadn’t forgotten how to “cut a rug.” One sister’s perspective, “Mercifully, the ‘prom’ was 6 to 7 p.m., no fancy dress required, only a few hallways distant, and with an understanding disc jockey who played dance tunes the sisters could remember!” The tunes were the old standbys like “The Chicken Dance,” “Macarena,” “YMCA,” and “The Hokey Pokey.” Even sisters who vowed to take home the “wallflower” trophy found themselves in...