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Miracle Place: a beacon for the neighborhood
...encouragement and mentoring to help them get good grades and to graduate from high school. Currently we have several students attending Ivy Tech Community College. We are so happy about that,” Sister Barbara said. Amarany Garcia beams as she shares her success as a new high school grad with Sisters Rita Ann Wade and Barbara McClelland. In Spring 2016, after several years of fundraising, the sisters and their benefactors realized their dream of adding a second building to expand services....
Making sense of the present moment
This article is reprinted from summer 2008 issue of HOPE. Sister Cathy Campbell explained Providence Spirituality as the “sacrament of the present moment,” as does Jean-Pierre de Caussade in his book, “Abandonment to Divine Providence.” “I try to stay open to God in each person, moment and circumstance that I encounter,” she added. Sister Cathy has been a Sister of Providence for 42 years, having first come to know the sisters as a student at Immaculata High School in Washington,...
Our Providence Community 2025-26 Laudato Si Action Platform Plan
...Community engage in direct services with the poor in our sponsored institutions and ministries, including Miracle Place, Miracle Home, Mother Maria Gratia Hostel for Girls, Providence Food Pantry, The Connecting Link and Providence Cristo Rey High School. Many more work in impoverished neighborhoods of urban cities such as Chicago. For more than 40 years, we provided staff for 8th Day Center for Justice and numerous other persons and doing/have done extensive work in justice ministry. Our work with police in...
March 24, 2024: Palm Sunday of the Passion of Our Lord
Gospel: Mark 14: 1-15:47 “Now the chief priests and the whole council were looking for testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they found none. … Some stood up and gave false testimony against him, saying we heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’ But even on this point their testimony did not agree. Then the high priest stood up...
A scholar’s view of Vatican II
...let it drop,” she said. What is her opinion on the state of the church now, 50 years after Vatican II? “I think hope dominates the feeling of depression. I think hope was very high at first. But perhaps it was an unrealistic hope: a failure to recognize that the work of any council takes years and perhaps generations to accomplish,” she said. Sister Alexa points out that to this day, hundreds of years later, we are still interpreting the...
Winter Storm Nemo: Anticipation, beauty, community and reflection from Sister Jane Iannacone
...ways in and out of town. They just closed one of the roadways out of town because of the predicted high tide. Photo taken by Sister Jane Iannacone in the Winthrop, Mass., area. Saturday morning: There is a beauty to the untouched snow. I don’t know how beautiful it might be when I have to get out in it. It is still snowing and there is concern about the high tide scheduled for 10 a.m. I have received a number...
Sister Diane Ris (formerly Sister Martin Therese)
...Rochelle, N.Y., junior high school in Hyattsville, Md. and Dunblane, Wash D.C.; high school at Immaculata, Wash, D.C., Providence Juniorate at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and Holy Trinity, Georgetown, where she received the “Babe Ruth Award” for her outstanding softball ability. Diane experienced great love and great loss as a child. She was loved abundantly by her family. And she suffered the great sorrows of her dad leaving when she was 3 and her mother dying when she was 7. Her grandmother,...
Statement: Sisters of Providence leadership makes statement on gun control issues, sends letters to editors
...of this passionate discussion? Where is the concern about and respect for how we treat one another in our neighborhoods, our schools, in our families and in our halls of government, in our discussions? Why does the conversation about the presence of high-powered guns cause such turmoil? Have we lost the ability to have reasonable discussion, to live as reasonable people? Have we lost the ability to show respect to one another? We believe, however, that we can lock away...
Do You Know?
...into smaller molecules. Plastics contain a high level of these high-energy fossil fuels that, as we know, are destructive to the environment and humans. Thus, negative effects of plastics are: Environmental pollution. Plastic does not biodegrade and cane take up to 1,000 years to break down, causing pollution in the environment, Health impacts. Certain chemicals in plastic can leach into food and beverages, potentially leading to health problems, Fossil fuel use. Most plastic is created from fossil fuels, contributing to...
Sisters, SMWC unveil historic district sign marker
...of those who came before us.” Sister Dawn said that 66 buildings located at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, many of which are Sisters of Providence buildings. Highlights She highlighted two specific buildings: The Church of the Immaculate Conception and The Saint Anne Shell Chapel. “Many important events of our lives have taken place in (the Church),” Sister Dawn said, pointing out how construction of the building began in 1886, but wasn’t finished until...
And now, a brief word from O’Shaughnessy Dining Hall
...students sat at assigned tables and were served family style. It was difficult to find servers. Then, in 1946, a creative work-study program was initiated. Young high school students called Commercial girls were engaged to wait on tables and wash dishes. Under the care and supervision of much-loved Sister Theresa Eleanor Blessinger, these girls were given room, board and two years of private Catholic high school education in exchange for serving meals in the dining room. I was a little...
Sister Jeanne Knoerle, former college president and Terre Haute community partner, dies Monday
Sister Jeanne Knoerle demonstrating her weaving skills will alpaca fiber. Sister Jeanne Knoerle, a Sister of Providence for 64 years and president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College for 15 years, died early Monday morning (June 10) at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods where she resided. Funeral arrangements are pending. Sister Jeanne also was well known for her involvement in many community groups and activities in the Terre Haute area. At the college, she founded the highly acclaimed distance learning program, only the second such...