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A Way in a Manger
In 2007, I was privileged to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I remember the 90-mile journey we took, via a highway, from Nazareth to Bethlehem. It was a convenient, comfortable trip via a motorcoach, air-conditioned, and among friends. Now, I turn back the clock 2,000 years. There was no paved highway, no comfortable motorcoach, only a donkey carrying a nine-month pregnant wife led by a loving husband. They were on the rugged road from Nazareth to Bethlehem....
Sustainability and social change
Isabelle McCurdy is one of White Violet Center’s newest interns. A recent high school graduate, she is making her first foray into sustainable farming. She arrived at the beginning of November and will be with us until April 2017. At her performing arts high school, Isabelle majored in dance. During her senior year, she developed a choreography routine that won a state competition. Improvisation is her favorite type of dance. Before coming to WVC, Isabelle worked for two years as...
Sister Paula Damiano
...I was 3 years old. My aunt worked at a Catholic hospital. She would take me there frequently. The Sisters were very, very kind. They were Franciscan sisters from Pittsburgh. My aunt also would take me to Tuesday night devotions at church when I was very little. I think all of that attracted me to religious life. In high school, we moved to Orange County, Calif. It was the 1960s: sun’s out, surf’s up! For a couple years, I didn’t...
Sister Barbara Bluntzer
...for some reason, I begged Daddy to let me go and live in Corpus Christi and go to the Catholic school there. It was a totally different experience for me. It was fun, but I’m sure I was unaware of all of the intricacies of what you do when you are in a Catholic school. It was just overwhelming,” she said. Sister Barbara’s appetite for religious life may have been unknowingly whetted at an early age, she remembered with a...
Sister Delan Ma at ease with God and others
...sure God called me,” she says. In 52 years as a Sister of Providence, she has never doubted that call. An advertisement just for her Delan Ma had just graduated high school in 1967 when she saw an advertisement in the Taiwanese Catholic newspaper. The Sisters of Providence had opened a novitiate in Taiwan. The ad listed three requirements, she recalls. Applicants must be at least a high school graduate, have the intention to join and be in good health....
Providence Associate and former Sister of Providence Donna Watzke shares about her journey
I was a Sister of Providence for 33 years. And I was schooled by the Sisters of Providence since the first grade at St. Leo School in Chicago. These two realities encompass all that I am today in ways I never could have imagined. It was my eighth grade teacher, Sister Jane Bodine, SP, who invited me to consider going to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods for high school. The rest is history! I always say we live our lives going forward but...
December 24, 2023: Fourth Sunday of Advent
...Mary, for you have found favor with God. “Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end. “But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be,...
Sisters Speak Out: On the Road with the Sisters of Providence
...gathered outside of the Church of the Immaculate Conception to pray the Rosary. In Indianapolis, Providence Associates gathered in prayerful solidarity on the campus of Providence Cristo Rey High School. And in Eloy, Arizona, Sister Tracey Horan, SP, and members of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and Kino Border Initiative prayed in and for collaborative justice and peace. Postulant Maité was also asked to participate in a Canadian echo event (virtually) by providing Spanish translation for the event. Sisters...
A look at the life and ministries of Sister Mary Raymond Schelkopf
...degree in education from Indiana University. Sister Mary Raymond taught at the elementary, junior high and high school levels in California, Illinois, Indiana and Massachusetts. She also ministered as a principal for many years, including stints at St. Benedict, in Terre Haute, from 1936-41, and St. Agnes Academy, located in Indianapolis, where she ministered as Superior. She ministered at St. Agnes from 1958-61, and was also the principal for a period of time at Cathedral Grade School, also in Indianapolis....
Throwback Thursday: Remembering Sister Beth Kelso
...in Chicago, and another master’s degree in Spanish from Indiana University. Sister Beth taught in high schools and academies in Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, California and Washington, D.C. During her ministry time in Indiana, she taught at St. Agnes Academy, located in Indianapolis, from 1959-1968, teaching Latin and Spanish. In 1955, she was featured as a representative of the Sisters of Providence in a photo in the Boston Pilot learning camera production for weekly features, including educational segments, skits and religious...
Sister Judy Birgen
...she ministered with Catholic Charities in parishes with food cooperatives and food pantries. And in August, she will travel to Uganda as a Fulbright scholar where she will teach at Uganda Martyrs University to help establish a social science program. In addition, she will carry out research focused on educational resilience among AIDS orphans who manage to stay in high school. Her determination to assist those in need also spurred her own education. Years ago, she was among people interviewed...
Sister Laura Parker
...relocation to the mid-south for her husband’s career, the birth of a son, and the rearing of a son through the college years. Along the way, the marriage ended. Her Catholic faith was very important to her through her years in a Catholic grade school, and Mother Theodore Guerin High School in River Grove, Ill. “I found great comfort in the church. No matter what the function was, I was always comforted by the rituals and the way we celebrated...