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Remembering who we are and why we are here!
...then with utter disbelief you faced a forest with no home prepared for you. Your heart sank at the total impossibility to establish an academy in such a place. Your heart was further torn asunder seeing the Eucharist housed in such poverty. But God’s presence was here and, in that moment, perhaps as never before, you totally surrendered your life to God’s Providence. Thank you, Donna, AND thank you Theodore, Basilide, Mary Xavier, Mary Liguori, Olympiade and St. Vincent Ferrer....
Beauty and Art in the Church of the Immaculate Conception
The Church of the Immaculate Conception, consecrated in 1907, features a majestic limestone structure filled with beautiful paintings, stained glass, sculpture and art. Thaddeus von Zukoynski painted all of the paintings in the church. He was Polish and graduated from the Academy of Arts in Munich, Germany. There are four major paintings. In the semi-dome in the front section of the church is a painting of The Immaculate Conception and the four Evangelists. There is a painting of The Ascension of...
Body+Blood+Soul+Divinity
A National Eucharistic Congress Experience “The Eucharist is God’s response to the deepest hunger of the human heart, the hunger for authentic life, for in the Eucharist Christ himself is truly in our midst, to nourish, console and sustain us on our journey.” – Pope Francis Fifty-thousand people kneel on a stadium floor, music floats over the crowd, a melody of the Latin Tantum Ergo (Therefore So Great). The masses sing and pray, hands lifted to God. Jesus enters the...
Sister Theresa Clare Carr
...Gospel of Matthew are truer than true of Theresa Clare. These words describe the heart and soul of Theresa Clare, the authenticity of her following of Jesus. “Come to me, all you who are weary and find life burdensome, and I will refresh you. Take my yoke upon your shoulders and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart. Your souls will find rest, for my yoke is easy and my burden light.” Could there be a...
Pouring out your heart in prayer
2-year-old Violet prays at the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Remember our friend Jonah from the Jewish scriptures? He poured out his heart in prayer, saying, “In my distress I called to my God, and God answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry” (Jonah 2:2). Later in the same prayer, he says, “When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, God, and my prayer rose...
Sister Lucille Nolan (formerly Sister Mary Lucille)
...she was the music teacher at St. Joseph in Downers Grove; and Immaculate Heart and the aforementioned Costa Catholic, both in Galesburg. Good friend and longtime LGU member Sister Diane Mason provided a glimpse of what it was like to live and teach with Lucy. Diane was assigned to Immaculate Heart School as her first mission. Diane said, “As I boarded the bus to head to Galesburg, I was petrified. So many nuns laughing and talking and here I was...
Being Eucharist in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak
...with all of this and encouraged by these articles and saying to myself, “Yes, this is wonderful theology – I understand it. I agree with it.” The ideas they’ve presented about the communion of saints and our unity across the ages is inspiring. Another wrote of the universality of the Church which, by the very nature of Baptism, makes us participants in every Eucharistic Liturgy. My favorite article was one that focused on the universal and cosmic significance of the...
Sister Connie Kramer leads retreats for homeless
...woodworker to make the crosses. Sister Connie needs many volunteers to help with ISP. She has created a guide that begins, “If you have a heart for the homeless, ISP may have a home for your heart.” “I want people to understand that a spirit of mutuality is essential to this ministry,” she says. Volunteer opportunities include writing letters of support, providing art supplies, knitting prayer shawls, offering transportation, and helping to facilitate retreats and the follow-up sessions. One can...
The surprising life of Sister Paula Damiano
...arts. She believes her creativity has helped PSCC offer programs that provide a bridge between the traditional and the innovative: praying the Rosary, centering prayer, praying through photography, the labyrinth, nature, discovering God through art. Other programs explore a variety of topics, such as the mystics, great faith thinkers, challenging books, justice and antiracism. Sister Paula Damiano laughs with guests during a dinner honoring donors to the Sisters of Providence in 2018. The restrictions imposed by COVID-19 led to the...
Sister Barbara Bluntzer
Current ministry: Volunteer, St. Pius X Parish, Corpus Christi, Texas Years in the Congregation: 60 years Something I have always wanted to do is: go to Iceland or conduct an orchestra when it plays Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture. If I weren’t an SP, I’d: probably be living in the country raising some animals. Sister Barbara Bluntzer knows just how to start and end her day. “Saint Mother Theodore (Guerin) said, ‘Send your heart a thousand times a day to the tabernacle.’...
Q and A: The new cosmology: a Providence perspective
Sister Jan Craven This article is reprinted from the fall 2009 issue of HOPE. Editor’s note: In the previous article, “The new cosmology: an evolving universe,” Sister Jeanne Knoerle provides an overview of the new cosmology. In the following article, Sister Jeanne explores this subject more by asking two sister-theologians some probing questions. Responding to her questions are Sisters Jan Craven and Alexa Suelzer. 1.) As a theologian, tell us briefly how your perspectives on creation have shifted (if indeed...
Mother, grandmother and sister?
...of time focusing on spiritual growth and studying Congregation history, while living at the motherhouse). Sister Marilú and her son had a heart-to-heart conversation. “I would ask every time we talked how he felt about me being a sister and he would say, ‘It’s OK, Mom. I want you to be happy.’ He didn’t want to hurt my feelings, even though we both knew there was much more that could be said. But that night, it was a Providential moment....