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Historical museum exhibit features sisters, college
One of the displays in the exhibit features the different looking habits sisters have worn throughout the years. In celebration of 175 years, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) have created an exhibit which is currently on display at the Vigo County Historical Museum. The exhibit features various artifacts from the sisters and the college, books and documents related to the history, photographs and more, including a poster which depicts the different types...
Letter: Ash Wednesday 1854
...permitted her to omit fasting for the lent season due to her illness. Then Mother Theodore expressed concern for the bishop. She admitted that she wasn’t sure why, but she was concerned about the bishop’s health. She trusted that Sister Mary Xavier would pray for him as well. She wrote, “You have the opportunity of seeing him and knowing how he is. Then your heart will tell you what to do.” According to her letter, he was not in danger,...
Sister Catherine White
...affect my life … they show me a faith as deep as an artesian well.” For almost 11 years, Cathy worked in the fifth largest diocese in the country, San Bernardino, ministering in response to the abuse crisis in our church. “Our office is the voice for the voiceless,” Cathy said. All her ministerial life, it seems, Cathy was the voice for those who had no voice. There were many voices who shared stories of remembrance of Cathy. Just know...
The Helping Hands thrift store: making a difference a quarter at a time
Faithful volunteers at The Helping Hands, from left, Milly Barbour, Bonnie Monaghan and Carol Robinson, have fun together while sorting and hanging clothes. Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the spring 2014 issue of HOPE magazine. Who would have guessed so much good could be done with a quarter? But plenty has in West Terre Haute, Ind. One quarter at a time. A group of dedicated volunteers working together seem to make those quarters rain down from heaven...
Firmly rooted like the Woods
...“If you don’t make prayer a scheduled part of the day it is unlikely to happen.” The most important thing about prayer, she said, is to realize it’s God’s initiative. “You start with the assumption that it is God who is after us,” Sister Maureen emphasized. “We need to pay attention to that. There’s the nudge. We need to do our part by taking time for spiritual reading to counteract the culture, and just sitting in the true listening format...
Reflections for Foundation Day 2019
...virtue with the knowledge that we impart. In the current days of fierce competition for students, it is more important than ever to distinguish ourselves by the values that we build with intentionality into our curriculum and all that we do! The new Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Academy boasted all of the studies that were expected and common in 1841. Needlepoint, French, art, and music were included along with subjects that were not common for young women to study in the day....
Called by God to life as a doctor and a Sister of Providence
...affirming to my journey. Most notably I was reminded of many examples of how Providence guided my choices, even when, in the moment, I had no recognition of this divine energy playing a role in guiding me to where I am called to be. My journey is really two-fold, a dual vocation in medicine and religious life. And while I discerned both these vocations, simultaneously, my journey really does start with my parents. Both chose life-long careers in medicine. My...
Ashes from the pandemic fire: a reflection for Ash Wednesday 2021
...looking at all the things in myself that need to be changed. And if I manage to actually pull off those Lenten promises then I feel good. And if I don’t then I feel bad. Either way the focus is on me. Paul implores us in the second reading of today, “be reconciled” or joined with the heart of God. Then we will know what is ours to do and we will do it with God. The second part of...
8th Day Center for Justice: Statement on White Supremacy
...following points for reflection, an article, and resources for deeper understanding and action. This is not new. The presence of movements whose ideology roots in beliefs of white supremacy traces back to the genocide and slavery that “founded” the country. It is not surprising that the figures of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jefferson serve as flashpoints; the statues point to the depth of historical legacy and contemporary manifestations that need to be transformed. The approval of white supremacy by...
Sister Mary Imelda Coulup
...16-23 It would seem that Sister Mary Imelda Coulup took this passage from Saint Paul to heart, for she was all of her life happy, prayerful, kind, gracious, and full of gratitude, said Sister Lawrence Ann Liston in commentary written by Sister Janet Gilligan for Sister Mary Imelda Coulup, who died Wednesday, July 12, 2017, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She was 98 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 78 years. And after 98 years of life...
Born Free: Human Rights and Dignity
...affirmed this declaration and took it further by declaring that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, written in 1948, has been translated into over 500 languages and is in over 70 Human Rights Treaties globally. This declaration includes 30 articles of which we would like to emphasize Article 25: Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself...
Sister Cordelia Moran (formerly Sister Ann de Sales)
Sister Cordelia Moran “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word was in the beginning with God. Through the Word all things came into being, and apart from the Word nothing came into being. In the Word was life, and that life was humanity’s light – Light that shines in the darkness, a Light that the darkness has never overtaken. Then came one named John, sent as an envoy...