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Sister Judy Birgen: parenting SP style
Sister Judy Birgen, left, with Bry’Chell Johnson, a young woman that Sister Judy has helped raise since she was 9 years old. Bry’Chell Johnson has been living with Sister Judy Birgen since she was nine years old. Today, at 19, Bry’Chell describes herself as very focused and school oriented. Bry’Chell has had many opportunities growing up. She has gone camping throughout the United States. She’s attended Catholic schools. She’s been in soccer, in band and actively involved in church. (She...
Sister Susan Paweski
...Vatican Council habit. No one was more amazed by the turn of events than I. My Perpetual Vows came after a challenging and wonderful seven-year Initial Formation program. I see these past years as a witness to Providence because there is no way I could even have imagined a couple of decades ago that I would be standing in the sanctuary. I attended St. Francis Borgia School and Guerin High School, both ministered by the Sisters of Providence. I attended...
Sister Nancy Nolan
...Galesburg to teach in 1879 at St. Joseph Academy. My mother and her three sisters all went there to school. They came in from the farm and boarded at the school during the week. My grandfather’s sister, Sister Modesta Nolan, joined the Sisters of Providence, so the Sisters were always important to our family. My memory is in fourth grade when Sister asked what we wanted to be when we grew up and I knew I wanted to be a...
Mary Ann Valentino, Chicago, IL: “Many fond memories”
Sister Agnes Rose Cook (St. Mel’s School) This Rooted for Tomorrow story was contributed by Mary Ann Valentino, Chicago, IL, for the 175th anniversary of the Sisters of Providence arriving in Indiana. I went to St. Mel’s Grammar School and was taught by those wonderful Sisters of Providence. At the time the girls were in one building and the boys were in another. I received my First Holy Communion there at the time when a 24-hour fast was required, not...
Sister Jeanette (Margaret Therese) Flaherty
...former Sister Margaret Therese, who died Jan. 18 in Kindred Hospital in North Lake, Ill. Born July 1, 1931, in Oak Park, Ill., Jeanette Marie Flaherty was one of three children of Richard and Lillian Horn Flaherty. She attended St. Angela Grade School and Providence High School, both in Chicago. She entered the Congregation July 22, 1950, and received the religious name Sister Margaret Therese. She professed first and perpetual vows Jan. 23, 1953, and 1958, respectively. Sister Jeanette earned...
A lifetime of meeting needs around the world and in our own backyard: Sister Patty Fillenwarth
...at Holy Cross School in Indianapolis. Patty knew from that day on that she wanted to be a missionary. But she loved the young, friendly Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods who taught at her school. So she followed her older sister Mary (now Sister Joseph) to the Providence Juniorate, a high school for girls interested in becoming a Sister of Providence. Called to mission Sister Patty entered the Sisters of Providence novitiate in 1959. One day the novices were...
Woods Day Care/Pre-School to close
Citing a growing number of concerns, the Sisters of Providence have sadly announced the closing of Woods Day Care/Pre-School (WDC/PS), a sponsored institution for close to three decades. The closing will coincide with the final day of the 2013-14 calendar school year for the Vigo County School Corporation, scheduled for Friday, June 6. “After careful consideration of financial and enrollment realities, the General Council of the Sisters of Providence has decided to close what has become an outstanding child development...
Sister Regina Norris (formerly Sister Regina Clare)
It is not at all surprising to me that the two scriptures that Sister Regina Norris chose for her funeral liturgy both mention children. She began teaching even before entering the Sisters of Providence. Having graduated from Indiana University in 1958, she began her teaching career at St. John School in Loogootee, a school that we staffed. As a Sister of Providence, she taught for 35 more years plus 14 years after that as a tutor and substitute. Add it...
Sister Patricia Linehan
...by her parents, especially her father whose Catholicism was at the center of his life and by the Ursuline Sisters at Holy Names Parish. During her early years, Pat and her older sister became, in Pat’s words, “best of friends who would argue and fight and 10 minutes later, we were the best of friends all over again.” The Sisters of Providence in Richmond spoke to Pat about the Providence Juniorate High School at the Woods. In 1952, one year...
Treasures from Archives: Father O’Brien letters
St. Sylvester Parish in Chicago has been around a long, long time. In fact, the parish was founded in 1884. The Sisters of Providence played an important role as educators in that parish, beginning in 1903. The Rev. Michael O’Brien, third pastor of the parish, began his duties at the church in 1897. Two years later, he and the parish built their first school. Opening in 1900, the school was three stories tall and cost $25,000. The Sisters of Mercy...
Sister Annette Schipp
...school and she attended St. Joseph School in Jasper. Two of her classmates were Sisters Bernice Kuper and Cecilia Ann Miller. All three of these young ladies came to Providence Juniorate in 1936 and entered the Congregation on January 6, 1940. She pronounced first vows on August 15, 1942, and final vows on August 15, 1948. Just why they had six years of temporary vows I do not know. Perhaps that is why all three of them were such wonderful...
Sister Cecilia Ann Miller
...Margaret (or Margie, as all called her), preceded her in death. After attending elementary school at St. Joseph in Jasper, Mary Ann came to the Sisters of Providence Juniorate for high school and entered the community Jan. 6, 1940. She was always proud to be in one of the two groups that entered during the SP’s centennial year.Because her musical talent was apparent, she was quickly channeled into becoming a music teacher and received the name Cecilia Ann to reflect...