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A Reflection for the 2022 Senior Jubilee
...same. She has learned to love the little things. Imagine how many little things she has unearthed and taken care of during her 21 years of service in Archives. Thank you, Marie Esther, your practice of being attentive to little things has certainly added up to a lifetime of faithful service to students and sisters alike. Sister Joyce Brophy also had a verse, but hers came from Mother Theodore: “Love the children first, then teach them.” Sister Joyce Brophy...
Light Amid the Darkness
...God is the light challenges us to spread this light amid our present darkness. To find hope and love within the light is what the baby Jesus, Love Incarnate, born so long ago, asks of us. May we be the light during this Christmas season and continue to spread the light of God into the promise of a new year. “If we love Our Lord with our whole heart, if we serve [God] faithfully, we shall be happy even in...
HOPE winter 2023 — Creating a new day
...Providence following the legacy of Mother Theodore.” Sisters of Providence provide leadership “We … know Sister Jenny as a faithful daughter of Providence, someone whose own life experiences, like your own, have called her to let go in order to let something new come. Thank you, Victory Noll Sisters, for inviting us into your lives.” Donors, you bless us beyond words! Your generosity abounded! We raised a total of $30,772 from 110 gifts. We had first-time gifts from 13 people,...
Why the Providence Community?
What continues to draw people to the Providence Community today? At 182 years into faithfully living out the mission of love, mercy and justice, the Sisters of Providence are blessed to still be attracting wonderful individuals to join us. Five women are in formation as Sisters of Providence and several more are discerning the possibility of becoming sisters. This past year, 21 people joined the Providence family as Providence Associates and 29 more began their candidate year toward becoming Providence...
Sisters of Providence provide leadership
...readiness to respond to the mission of religious life make her a perfect choice. She has ministered for 15 years on leadership teams of the Sisters of Providence. She also served 10 years as vocation director for the Sisters of Providence. At the transfer ceremony, Sister Dawn told the OLVM’s: “We … know Jenny as a faithful daughter of Providence, someone whose own life experiences, like your own, have called her to let go in order to let something new...
Explore religious life with the Sisters of Providence
...love, mercy and justice first-hand in the lives of the Sisters of Providence. They will see how the sisters live the mission in their prayer lives, vows, ministries and community life. Retreatants will also learn more about the Congregation’s foundress, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. They will also learn more about what the Sisters of Providence have to offer, including: Faithfulness to prayer and total trust in Providence, A lived legacy of love, mercy and justice from foundress Saint Mother Theodore...
March 5, 2023: Second Sunday of Lent
...faithful followers of the Lord. They will need this reminder when the life of discipleship gets challenging. It’s no wonder they wanted to hold on to the experience rather than leave the mountain and return to the real world. Why Moses and Elijah? Simply put, Jesus is the fulfillment of the Law (represented in Moses) and the Prophets (represented in Elijah). In him, we have all that we need to live according to God’s will. By his very life, as...
Sister Patricia Geis (formerly Sister Anna Marie)
...Cubs and Notre Dame football. She was even an unseen extra in a crowd at Wrigley Field for the making of the film “Rookie of the Year.” She also loved to go to casinos with her sister Mary, a passion that reappeared in health care when she played Bingo, eager to win candy – although she made sure she only won once so someone else could win. The core of Patty’s life remained her faithfulness to the gospel and to...
Newsnotes from HOPE summer 2023
Volunteers stitch their way into our hearts Volunteer Charla Evinger hemming Sister Editha Ben’s pants. Charla Evinger and Cheryl Murphy are co-owners of Mamas Mending in Marshall, Illinois, and also volunteers extraordinaire for the Sisters of Providence. When the Congregation’s faithful mender and alteration expert Sister Margaret Heese could no longer assist, a big need arose among the Sisters of Providence. Charla and Cheryl have stepped in to donate one Saturday a month to help the sisters with any sewing...
Sister Carolyn Kessler (formerly Sister Ann Carolyn)
...aloud her vows. As they spoke the last words of the vow formula, “to be faithful to them until death,” the nurse reported that she breathed her last breath. Indeed, Sister Carolyn Kessler’s life was one of many branches on the vine of Christ. Her devotion to Eucharist kept her well attached and allowed her to bear great fruit: Her professional work, her dealings with students, her kind demeanor. We rejoice with her that she is now with the source...
Sister Linda Kaliker (formerly Sister Marie Theodore)
...in joy/ and be led forth in peace;/ the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing.” The first volume of the history of the Sisters of Providence recounts that on August 24, 1840, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, seeing in her superior’s wish the will of God, yielded and agreed to lead a little troupe of missionaries to America. August 24 was an anniversary of such moment in her life that she kept it in faithful remembrance...
Explore religious life with the Sisters of Providence
...in their prayer lives, vows, ministries and community life. Retreatants will also learn more about the Congregation’s foundress, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. They will also learn more about what the Sisters of Providence have to offer, including: Faithfulness to prayer and total trust in Providence, A lived legacy of love, mercy and justice from foundress Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, A close-knit community that has called Saint Mary-of-the-Woods home since 1840, A long history of standing up for justice, and Ministries...