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Providential Connections
This article is reprinted from the winter 2009 issue of HOPE. Let’s take a quiz. What do these things have in common? • An affordable and flexible Catholic college prep school • A teenager who emigrated from Nigeria and settled in Baltimore • Two married Providence Associates • Sisters of Providence teachers • And many Indianapolis companies and individuals? The thread that ties these pieces together is Providence Cristo Rey High School (PCRHS) in Indianapolis. Founded in 2007 as a...
One Mom’s Story
...so bright. If only he applied himself.” I had no idea how to make that happen. I divorced when Mark was 12. Rising up to challenges All through elementary school and into high school, he never rose to his potential. I was so tired at night, that I hardly had the energy to help with homework, so it just didn’t get done. When I went for parent/teacher conferences, it was the same story. People would ask me how Mark liked...
Sister Donna Marie Fu: Called by God to serve a global church
...months in the American school they staffed there. When the school year began, she returned to Taipei to complete high school and then begin college as an English major. Novice Director Sister Marie Ambrose McKenna, left, helps Madeline Fu, the future Sister Donna Marie, with her new postulant clothing upon her entering the Sisters of Providence in December of 1953. Ever since her baptism the young Madeline had known she wanted to become a religious sister. “I said to myself,...
Sister Mary Catherine Keene
...her rich ministerial life, which included: Teaching music first at St. Mary’s grade school in Aurora, Illinois, and then at Guerin High School in River Grove, Illinois, Serving as part of the team of educators at St. Ann’s school in Terre Haute, integrating music and fine arts throughout the curriculum, Heading liturgy departments, first for the Diocese of Memphis, Tennessee, and later for St. Margaret Mary Parish in Algonquin, Illinois, Serving one term on the provincial leadership team for St....
Back to school: A teacher’s perspective
...flow forth from me. Don’t believe anyone who tells you there is no prayer in public school! This teacher is praying all the time! And where is God to be found? She is sitting in those desks and He is working behind the scenes in those schools, every day. If you are so inclined, pray with me, please, to the God of your heart. School will soon begin. Join your life mission to the Providence Community. Become a Providence Associate!...
Sister Patricia McIntyre (formerly Sister Elaine)
...area of reading, especially to the disadvantaged child. Education outside the classroom interested Patty. She served as director of the Learning Media Center – grades 1-8 at Holy Cross grade school in Indianapolis. Indiana Public School No. 93 in Indianapolis hired her for the position of Library Media Assistant. The principal of Indiana Public School No. 93 evaluated Miss McIntyre with these words: “(She) is doing an outstanding job in the LMC. She has continued to fine tune the organization...
Celebrating National Catholic Schools Week with pen pals!
...Lisa Eilbracht, a third-grade teacher at Saint Patrick School in Terre Haute, reached out to Sister Joni Luna, SP, who formerly ministered at the school as a teacher, athletic director and vice principal. Sister Joni said Lisa was interested in putting together a pen pal project with students and Sisters of Providence. Sister Jan Craven, SP, with her pen pal, Saint Patrick School student Emily Mascari “I’ve known Lisa from the five years I spent at Saint Patrick School,” Sister...
Sister Alma Louise Mescher
...Marquette University and the University of Notre Dame, respectively. Sister Alma Louise commenced teaching at St. Elisabeth Grade School, Van Nuys, Calif. In California she also ministered at St. Therese, Alhambra, and Marywood, Anaheim. In Terre Haute, she taught at St. Patrick and Schulte high schools. She also spent five years at Marywood High School, Evanston, Ill. From 1962 to 1981, Sister Alma Louise was a well respected biology professor at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. “I know of almost no students...
Sister Elizabeth Rose Weisenbach
...a variety of roles at Cathedral High School, Indianapolis. In 1985, she returned to California where she served St. Joseph Parish, Hawthorne, as a pastoral associate and as the school’s secretary. From 1990 to 1992, she was the registrar at St. Bernard High School, Playa del Rey, Calif. Returning to Indiana in 1992, she ministered one year as a secretary at Ritter High School, Indianapolis. She retired to the Woods in 1993 and volunteered in several departments and ministries. “Sister...
A Prayer for Students
...enough, even without a pandemic! Allow them to hold on to the joys of childhood as they explore new ideas and meet greater challenges. Help their teachers find the right words for the right moment. Embrace these students and their teachers with your love. Jesus, bless high school students who rely so much on relationships with friends. And who now wonder what this year will bring. Band? Football? Debate team? Will these teenagers benefit fully from all that high school...
A Prayer for Students during a pandemic
...enough, even without a pandemic! Allow them to hold on to the joys of childhood as they explore new ideas and meet greater challenges. Help their teachers find the right words for the right moment. Embrace these students and their teachers with your love. Jesus, bless high school students who rely so much on relationships with friends. And who now wonder what this year will bring. Band? Football? Debate team? Will these teenagers benefit fully from all that high school...
Sister Dorothy Gartland (formerly Sister Margaret Eugene)
...of how unjust systems can wreak havoc in ordinary people’s lives as well as the turmoil created nationally and internationally. Light shone on them when Mr. Gartland found work at the Nabisco Company in Chicago, requiring the family’s move to the Windy City. It was here that Dorothy first met the Sisters of Providence at Our Lady of Sorrows Parish. Then enrolled as a student at Providence High School. Her sister Theresa, a year ahead of Dorothy in school, entered...