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Sisters of Providence “employ” special education students
Thursday is my favorite day of the week. It peps me up knowing the weekend is still to come. But when my favorite day of the week includes inspirational young people, well, that’s just the icing on the high school graduation cake! Congratulations West Vigo High School seniors Dustin, Jordan, Erika and Jessica for completing the work training skills program! Last Thursday was extra special because I attended a celebration at Idle Creek Banquet Center in Terre Haute recognizing the...
Sister Joni becomes who God created her to be as a Sister of Providence
...she began her third year of formation, called the mission novice year. She is ministering as the assistant principal at St. Patrick’s School, the only Catholic school in Terre Haute, Indiana. St. Patrick’s – a pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school – has 329 students. The school was originally founded by the Sisters of Providence in 1881. Then pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish, Rev. Thomas X. Logan, approached Mother Mary Ephrem Glenn – the general superior at the time – to finance...
A Reflection for the 2025 Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...a free school for poor children whenever they opened a school for children whose parents could afford to pay tuition. That first free school was right here in St. Mary’s Village. She did not let anti-Catholic sentiment keep her from admitting non-Catholic children to her school. In an 1850 letter to her dear friend and confidante, Bishop Bouvier of LeMans, France, she tells him that there are always six to seven hundred pupils in their schools. About two-thirds are Catholic....
Newsnotes from fall 2022 HOPE magazine
...Cristo Rey High School dedicates new building Citing a necessity for a newer and larger building, school officials recently relocated Providence Cristo Rey High School from its facility at 75 N. Belleview Place, Indianapolis, to its new location at the former Christel House Academy South charter school building at 2717 S. East Street, Indianapolis. The move began at the end June and was official with a ribbon cutting ceremony on July 29. Several Sisters of Providence, Providence Associates and others...
Sister Marie Paul Haas
...she forgot. Her passion was unbelievable – for her music and for her students.” Using the words “teacher of applied music” to describe Marie Paul meant the following: She taught a grade school guitar group, as well as a group of high school, college and beyond, former students who played a Mass every Sunday for liturgy. She taught individual or group lessons in violin, viola and bass and conducted the school orchestra. She gave piano lessons and trained organists for...
Sister Dorothy (Marie Christopher) Souligny
...who received the religious name Sister Marie Christopher, professed first and perpetual vows Jan. 23, 1959, and Aug. 15, 1964, respectively. She earned a bachelor’s degree in French from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s degree in secondary education from Indiana University. Sister Dorothy commenced teaching in 1959 at Sacred Heart, Terre Haute, Ind. In Indiana, she also ministered at St. Rose High School, Vincennes, and Ladywood, Indianapolis. She spent one year at Providence High School, New Lenox, Ill. Sister...
Sister Marie Ellen Sullivan
...Lady of Providence, Clarksville. In Illinois, her ministries were at Our Lady of Mercy and Providence High School, Chicago; Providence High School, New Lenox; and Mother Theodore Guerin High School, River Grove. Sister Marie Ellen also ministered at Holy Redeemer, Berywn, Md., and Dunblane, Washington, D.C. The year “1975 brought with it a difficult transition at Guerin and Sister Marie Ellen responded to the needs of the Congregation without hesitation, agreeing to lead the school as its principal, a ministry...
Sister Ellen Cunningham (formerly Sister Michael Aquinas)
...Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in 1963, and fortified with her degree, she was sent to Central Catholic High School in Fort Wayne where she taught religion, French and English for two years. The next year, 1966-67, she taught math and other subjects at St. John’s Grade School in Loogootee! Sister Ellen Cunningham Perhaps this grade school experience as a math teacher caught the attention of her superiors, because the following year, she went off to the Catholic University of America to...
Reflections for Foundation Day 2019
...Providence. PCRHS treats every student the same and gives everyone what they earn, or what they are due.” – Derryck Strode, Class of 2020. “Love, Mercy, and Justice have helped me with my learning here at the school. The love of the teachers here continues the love of Saint Mother Theodore at the school and has helped me learn because if I have trouble with work the teachers are willing to help me even after school hours. They show us...
Sister Ann Stephen Stouffer
...Ann when they visited her at St. Angela’s in Chicago. While attending elementary school in Pierceton, Judy always had to be on her best behavior, because her father was the principal. In high school, she participated in band, chorus, and the school paper; graduating in 1957. With the goal of becoming an educator herself, she enrolled at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College the following September, where she first met the Sisters of Providence. Having always felt that she was born under a...
Newsnotes from winter 2023 HOPE magazine
...Joni Luna; back row: Sisters Marilyn Baker, Mary Montgomery Saint Mother Theodore Guerin High School Celebrating 40 years! Alumnae of former Mother Theodore Guerin High School in River Grove, Illinois The Mother Theodore Guerin High School Class of 1982 held its 40th reunion on Saturday, Oct. 8. Alumnae gathered for a 5 p.m. Saturday evening Mass at the former St. Celestine Church, now Mother Theodore Guerin Parish, in Elmwood Park. A festive celebration followed at Draft Bar in Chicago. Forty...
Sister Mary Ann McCauley
...school and high school. I did think about other communities. I was interested in Glenmary. I don’t know why, exactly. Home missions, I guess. Of course, the Carmelite Monastery (Terre Haute) opened when I was in high school. We went down there for the opening. I was in awe of how Spartan their lives were. I’m sure I thought about it for a while, but it wouldn’t stick with me very long. The Sisters of Providence always were extremely good...