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A Note from Providence Associates Jane Fischer and Pearlette Springer, September 11, 2024
Providence Associate Jane Fischer grew up in a small town in Southern Indiana. It was (for all intents and purposes) all white and Catholic. Words like ‘non-catholic’ and ‘protestant’ were part of our everyday language. So while issues for POC were not present, we had our own culture based on religion and ethnicity. We did not distinguish between Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, or any other faith. Sister Anji Fan and Providence Associate Jane Fischer speak at their table during a meeting...
Sisters of Providence welcome new postulants
...entered the postulant phase, or candidate for admission, into the Congregation. This marked the first time since 2014 for the Congregation to see more than one entrance, when the Sisters of Providence welcomed both Sister Anna Fan and Sister Tracey Horan. For Maite, the experience was more than 10 years in the making. Postulant Maite Rodriguez-Mora knocking on the entrance of Providence Hall. “Twelve years ago, I met Sister Jeanette Lucinio,” Maite admitted, adding Sister Jeanette encouraged to consider religious...
Oral history: Sister Ann Sullivan
...was the herald. She knew — hoped — the Community was ready. In 1993 at the Sisters of Providence International Assembly, with the presentation on the Theology of the Universe, the Theology of God, Sister Judy Shanahan was determined something was going to happen with the proposal Ann had developed. Sister Ann’s LGU fanned out to nearly every table to discuss actions to be taken regarding the environmental project. The response was nearly unanimous, indicated by a show of squares...
Days of Serving
...serving throughout the year, is that your deep gladness will intersect with an acute need in your community. While the Sisters of Providence have many volunteer needs, we may not have a need that fits your interests or expertise. Contact Volunteer Services anyway and we will be glad to help you find an organization that will put your interests, experience, and skills to good use. The Sisters of Providence are always looking for fantastic volunteers in these departments: Providence Food...
Living Providence: What It Meant to Be a Sister of Providence Today
...Region VII Assembly: (or entitled) “Beyond Individual Charisms: Exploring a Regional Expression of the Gift of Religious Life Today”. (left to right, back row) General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, Sisters Lisa Stallings, Barbara Sheehan, Jenny Howard, Dina Bato, Laura Parker, Pam Pauloski, Carol Kimes and Marie McCarthy. (middle row) Sisters Barbara Battista and Arrianne Whittaker. (front row) Sisters Joni Luna, Jeanne Hagelskamp, Anji Fan, Leslie Dao, Jessica Vitente, Tracey Horan and My Huong Pham. Mission of the Congregation Our mission...
December 7, 2025: Second Sunday of Advent
...Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in his hand. He will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” Reflection In Prague, imbedded in the city’s sidewalk are the series of “stumble stones” (Stolpersteine), which are brass-plated memorial cobblestones. Their purpose? To cause one to be interrupted in their journey. Each stumble stone bears the name of a person who was deported or killed by the...
Oral History: Sister Carol Nolan
...the purpose, devotion, vitality, and leadership that Saint Mother Theodore Guerin exhibited. Then-SMWC President Dottie King, Ph.D. presents Sister Carol (right) with the Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Award, Sister Carol graduated from the College in 1954. While in California, Carol accompanied Providence Associates, who frequently met with the Sisters there. Dedicated She is a huge fan of the Providence Associates relationship with the Sisters of Providence. Sister Carol champions inclusion. She is a writer. You can search her name on...
Sister Frances Maureen McGrory
...Sister Frances Maureen would want to end with a word of thanks to all those in Mother Theodore West who cared for her with such love. She would always say, ‘They are so good to us.’ “So let us rest assured that as Sister Frances Maureen made the journey through death into eternal life she was received with the words ‘Well done my good and faithful servant, come and receive the reward that has been prepared for you for all...
Sister Margaret Ann (Marie Nicholas) McNamara
...She then ministered as either a co-director or director of the Permanent Deacon Program for the Archdiocese of Chicago. In 1996, Sister Margaret Ann was elected to the Congregation’s General Council. She served in that role until 2001. “Sister Margaret Ann walked in dignity with her memory deficit. Her entire life was marked with integrity. Her commitments were always kept and she was faithful to all she had vowed. A genuine spirit of joy and laughter were signatures of her...
Sister Ann Miriam Zell
...the scope of our friendship. Together we told jokes, sent cards, made cards, read, sang, prayed and reminisced. She truly cared for me and was my faithful prayer partner. And she considered me a funny friend who made her smile,’” said Sister Alexa. The Mass of Christian Burial for Sister Ann Miriam was celebrated Aug. 17, with the Rev. Daniel Hopcus presiding. She is survived by both her siblings, Norma Oster of Sacramento, Calif., and Harry of San Gabriel, Calif....
Valentine’s Day 2012
...the sisters had their methods all right. So thank you, Sisters of St. Francis of Dubuque. I still enjoy creating the “holder” for loving greetings, encouraging greetings for those with whom I am in relationship now. I am still trying to faithfully and genuinely include the “everyone” that Providence has put on my path in this wonderful journey marked out for me by a loving God. If any of you Franciscan Sisters reads this reflection, please consider it my valentine...
Sister Ann Michele Kiefer
...Sister Ann Michele also became a friend, comforter and support for mothers, fathers and life partners of these persons. Day by day when convenient and inconvenient, she quietly became the mid-wife of the broken spirits of those she served by teaching them to let God transform their powerlessness into self-possession, possibility and peace. She was Providence in their lives. The relationships she formed there have endured through the years. These dear friends have remained faithful with phone calls, cards and...