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Sister Mary Jo Stewart (formerly Sister Joseph Maureen)
...had been a Sister of Providence for 74 years. Sister Mary Mark continued: Mary Johann Stewart was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Sept. 25, 1927. She attended St. Ann Grade School and high school at Providence Juniorate at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. I have been friends with Mary Jo since I was six years old, so we have had an uninterrupted friendship for nearly 85 years. We attended St. Ann School together – a very small school with two grades in...
Honoring Sister James Michael Kesterson
Sister James Michael Kesterton received one of the three Career Achievement Awards from the Archdiocese of Indianapolis last night. From The Criterion: The measure of Sister James Michael’s life can also be taken in her remarkable career of 60 years in education, including 32 years as the principal of St. Jude School in Indianapolis. During that time, the school earned two Blue Ribbon School awards for excellence from the U.S. Department of Education. “My blessing was to be with the...
Standing Strong 1974!
...celebrated 50 years since graduation from Immaculata. We still speak terrible Latin, speak with too much volume, speak of stories true and not, and speak fondly of our days and antics making our way through high school and those teenage years. I’d like to say we laughed all the way, but there were times as the outside world peeked in — as boys broke our hearts, as test grades were too low, as detention was boring — that all interrupted...
Meet our postulant Stephanie Rivas
Editor’s note: Stephanie Rivas entered the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, as a postulant on Sept. 10, 2023. Here she shares a bit about herself by way of introduction. Postulant Stephanie Rivas I am Latina from San Antonio, Texas. A “cradle” Catholic, I was raised by a single mom. I have a brother who is about a year older than me. My faith really didn’t take off until I was in high school. Church became my second home...
Sister Rebecca Keller
...with myself,” she recalls. So she began to look into religious congregations. She took a teaching job at a Catholic school so she could get to know and observe the sisters there. The school just happened to be staffed by Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. “You know, I really didn’t even consider them at first because … I don’t know why I didn’t, but I didn’t. And I was looking everywhere else. I’m one of those persons who...
The joy of living out my vocation to religious life
...yard. During the summer, we would head up to Lady Isle in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where I was invited to play softball with some of the more athletic SPs. They were delightful! Joyful! It was great fun! I attended Cheverus School in Malden, Massachusetts, where I was taught all 12 years by the Sisters of Providence. Many examples of people living out their faith nudged me on my way. As a freshman in high school, I began attending daily Mass....
Sister Agnes Pauline Meinert
...us, and we are found changed by her gift of life because she helped us discover a part of ourselves that without her we might never have known,” said Sister Barbara Ann Zeller in her commentary for Sister Agnes Pauline Meinert, who died June 24, 2007. One of four children of Paul and Ethel (Segerson) Meinert, Florence Mary Meinert was born Oct. 15, 1916, in Cicero, Ill. She attended St. Mel Grade School and graduated from Providence High School, both...
Evolving Providence in time of pandemic and beyond
...she said. Programs to which the sisters now welcome their neighbors focus on healthy aging, memory care, sustainability, Taizé prayer and a variety of ecumenical retreats and workshops on prayer and spirituality. A group of high school students from Cathedral High School in Indianapolis visit and tour Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. These kinds of programs will become even more important as the United States and the Wabash Valley emerge into the reality of a post pandemic age in coming months. Always open...
News Notes
...in need of food, gas, money, furniture, clothing or basic services since it began in 1997. TheConnectingLink.SistersofProvidence.org High School reunion at the Woods Alumnae of the former high school at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods for girls considering entering the Sisters of Providence gathered June 23, 2017. More than 120 women reminisced, laughed, sang and danced at the Providence Juniorate/Aspirancy reunion. The high school was in operation from the 1930s until 1965. (Originally published in the Fall 2017 issue of HOPE magazine.)...
Sister Elizabeth Ann Flori
...Anthony and Novel Colvin Flori. She attended Arvada Grade and Junior High schools in Arvada and her first two years at Arvada High School. When Catherine Lucille was in her teens, her mother died. “Catherine promised her mother she would take care of her younger sister, Dorothy. Besides doing that, she kept house and cooked for her father and her two brothers. The family moved from Colorado to Vincennes, where Catherine finished her high school education at St. Rose Academy,”...
A journey to wider acceptance and love: Sister Tracey Horan and immigration
View of the border city of Nogales, where Sister Tracey Horan now ministers, from the Arizona side. I cannot put my finger on exactly what informed my belief that there should be a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. I remember high school friends using “Mexican” as an insult. I remember that I didn’t know anyone who had migrated. Like most stereotypes, my beliefs about immigrants most likely came from a combination of sources: messages I heard from the news, friends...
Rejoice with us: A Silver Jubilee Reflection
...is Anji’s hometown. “It was not you who chose me; it was I who chose you to go forth and bear fruit.” What followed from that encounter has been a fruitful life for both Anji and for the Providence Community. As an educator, Anji has taught at Providence Cristo Rey High School in Indianapolis, at Guerin Prep High School and St. Therese Chinese Catholic Church, both in the Chicago area, and at Oldenburg Academy in Oldenburg, Indiana. Also, for a...