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Sisters of Providence celebrate Jubilees
...Heart of Mary Parish in Galesburg. She professed first vows on Aug. 15, 1967, and perpetual vows on Oct. 13, 1973. She has a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Illinois State University. Her past ministries include: In Oklahoma: Teacher, Immaculate Conception, Tulsa (1969-70). In Illinois: Teacher, Immaculate Heart, Galesburg (1970-72); Teacher, Costa Catholic High School, Galesburg (1972-75); Staff Psychologist, Spoon River Community Mental Health Center, Galesburg (1977-79); Director of...
One step at a time: Sister Dina on upcoming vows
...and justice in service among God’s people. To persevere … all of my days … to unite by the bond … to strive steadfastly … with all my heart … to spend my whole life in generous service … works of love, mercy and justice in service among God’s people. What an order! Am I up for it? “Take my heart, O Lord, take my hopes and dreams. Take my mind with all its plans and schemes.” Sister Dina at...
Will you listen to your heart: A foundation day reflection
...Will you answer the call? Are you willing to give what it takes to sacrifice, to plant the seed of the Gospel in a world in much need of this seed? Sit on a bench or in a quiet space to have a conversation with Saint Mother Theodore. Ask her the questions you have in your heart and quietly listen for her answer. Her “Journals and Letters” tell us, “When one has nothing more to lose, the heart is inaccessible to fear.” ...
Saint Mother Theodore’s feast day
...Take a moment to think about that. For you, what purse, what treasure, if you will, did she hold in her heart, her innermost self that allowed her to be who she was, to do what she did? Take a minute…name what characteristic, value of Mother Theodore speaks to your heart, sums up who she is for you, makes you admire her or love her. Silent time Did the word friend come to your mind? She was certainly a good...
A Reflection on the Feast Day of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...This connection Mother Theodore had with her sisters was outdone only by the connection she had with her God. To paraphrase Luke, a Provident God was her treasure; so there also was her heart – cor unum – one heart. It is her heart and the witness of her life that gives me solace and comfort at times like these. I do hear her say to me in those moments of my own vulnerability: Fear not, little flock. No one...
A Reflection for the Installation of New Leadership
...We, until we are one— one heart. She used the Latin—cor unum, a phrase well known in our community. This is the desire of a Provident God—cor unum, one heart. Do not think for one moment that I think this is an easy proposition—to move from the individualism that we have come to know and love in order to arrive at communion. Writer and social activist Parker Palmer defines community as “That place where the person you least want to...
Sister My Huong Pham reflects on Jubilee
...if the communists wanted to search the convent. The cry of the poor and oppressed people urged the call of my heart. My scariness of the persecution of communists was incomparable to my aching heart for their cries of suffering. “In such a personal experience, I quickly said YES to God in searching for an ultimate relationship with God through the service of people. My ministries in Vietnam were being a grade school teacher, a school administrative assistant, and mission...
Sister Miriam Clare Stoll
...to her patron saint. As a child, she read the Sacred Heart magazine that came to their home and cut out the pictures of St. Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart and made her own booklet which she called “The Life of Saint Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart.” Later in life, she said “I still have a special place in my heart for St. Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart.” Thank you, Sister Miriam Clare, for choosing to come...
Poems from Sister Mary Theodosia Mug
...hallowed shrine. To My God O Heart of my heart, O Joy of my joy! Be all my delight In Thy sole employ. Whate’er may betide, Let nothing us part, And nothing divide, O Heart of my heart. My Guardian Angel Day by day and night by night Guards me, this dear Angel bright Sent from realms of heavenly light. Be my course ‘mid clear or maze, Paths delightful, darksome ways, Ever at my side he stays. Safely to my...
Against All Odds: Focus on Sister Mary Elise Renauldt, SP
...the orders of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Madams of the Sacred Heart respectively. (ibid). However, Mary Jane Renault, later Sister Mary Elise, entered the Providence Novitiate in 1883 at age 24. (cf. Archives) Sister Mary Elise is characterized as having a great love for little children, sympathy for the afflicted, and a burning zeal for souls. Eventually this great zeal led S. Mary Elise to insist that she be part of the mission to China. Like St. Mother...
Archives: Keeper of the Stories
...for countless books, dissertations and articles; records that keep the Congregation true to its mission and inform its future; and letters and artifacts that helped put the “Saint” before Mother Theodore’s name. “We are the keeper of the stories,” Sister Donna Butler, an Archives volunteer, said. The SP Archives is chock full of stories — from collections that pre-date the Congregation’s founding in 1840 to the first words Mother Theodore wrote after arriving at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and from works of...
Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...Elisabeth, Van Nuys, Calif. (1955-59), Principal, Immaculate Heart, Galesburg (1959-65), Mistress of Postulants, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1965-68), Director of Scholastics, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1968-69), Teacher, St. Agnes, Chicago (1969), Principal, St. Genevieve, Chicago (1969-71), Principal, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Galesburg (1971-72), Principal Administrator, Costa Catholic, Galesburg (1972-79), Assistant Vice President for Development, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1980-82), Educational Consultant, Catholic School Office, Diocese of Joliet (1983-84), Provincial, Sacred Heart Province, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1984-91), Principal, St. Dennis School, Lockport, Ill. (1992-95), Teacher, Sacred Heart School,...