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The power of this place
...significant took place on this holy ground and continues to take place this very day. We know people go to the Holy Land because it is filled with places made extraordinary by some event in sacred history. The same thing happens in most major religious traditions, notably in the hajj to Mecca in Islam, or to Medina where the Prophet Mohammed himself began his own Farewell Pilgrimage. “The power of the pilgrimage lies in being on that land itself.” The...
Coming of age with Vatican II
...first vows, we became “junior sisters.” We received that black veil and looked like a “real” Sister of Providence. Sister Alexa Suelzer was our director. A Scripture scholar herself, she continued the instruction begun in the novitiate. Sister Mary Leo (Marym) Gootee was Sister Alexa’s assistant. I can still feel her tolerance of our rather cocky selves. Only years later, in conversations with these very significant women in our Congregation’s history, did I understand how they “made the path by...
Winter Storm Nemo: Anticipation, beauty, community and reflection from Sister Jane Iannacone
...morning: This is the fifth-largest blizzard in Boston’s recorded history. Public transportation is up and running and I hear the planes again! A photo of the Winthrop shore made the New York Times on Sunday. The main problem now is that the streets are so narrow and the area is so congested that there is no place to put the snow. It is a challenge especially at intersections because of the snowbanks. They will eventually load the snow into trucks...
Sister Maureen Fallon
...or I don’t know, but they just kind of anticipated that and gently took care of that. What is unique or special about the lifestyle of a woman religious? For me I think one of the benefits is being able to come here to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods all the time. And to have a place of history and heritage and hospitality where I know that I can come when I’m tired, when I’m awake, when I’m happy, when I’m not happy,...
Life in the Weihsien internment camp, 1943
...But I think of what Mother Theodore once wrote: “So true it is that misfortune binds hearts together.” What never ceased to be a great misfortune for these sisters was still, nonetheless, a great binder of hearts too. It’s a classic Sisters of Providence move — they took something rather awful and made the best of it, determined to be love, mercy and justice in the world anyway. Learn more about the Sisters of Providence history in China and Taiwain....
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: a place of welcome
...years at the Woods as a student at SMWC. This place and the Sisters of Providence helped shape who I am. When I come ‘home’ to the Woods, I feel like I am tapping back into the root of who I am as a person.” ~ Jennifer Drake, PA Hamilton, Ohio “I love to visit the Shell Chapel because many local residents don’t know it exists and it is a quiet place to pray and a treasury of history from...
At home in the Catholic Church with the SPs
...wrote stories about and documented their lives. I experienced a lived history of strong, educated, faithful women of the church. I saw the struggles and joys of life as a woman religious today and in the recent past. Along the way my admiration, my trust and my appreciation of the Sisters of Providence just kept growing. I eventually reached a point where asking questions about the Church broadened me rather than threatened me. And that new-found strength came just in...
Sisters of Providence bestow annual awards
...Sisters of Providence general superior. Miller is a retired Vigo County extension agent and is well versed in log-cabin construction, and he has a penchant for Indiana history, particularly in the Terre Haute area. He has been involved in numerous noteworthy projects in the Wabash Valley. The trio hauled timbers for the cabin which were made available from a donor in Southern Indiana and they coordinated the re-assembly at the site where the first log cabin chapel is believed to...
SP mission: alive with the times
...their sustainability and effectiveness, to create new forms of collaboration, and to develop a Land Ethic to guide our decision-making on our use of all our lands now and into the future. From 1840 to 2013 our mission has remained unchanged. The expression of that mission, the way we live it out has evolved so that we can continue to serve people facing the pressing needs of the times. Like Saint Mother Theodore, we Sisters of Providence throughout our history...
Sister Mary Eymard Campeggio
...Saint Mary-of-the-Woods was contacted and an interview set up. The entrance process was quite different in those days. After the interview, Sister Aloyse said, “Well you look like you’re ready for the Novitiate.” Madeline, right then and there, went across the hall and dressed in her postulant uniform and the rest is history. She was 19 years old when she entered on Aug. 18, 1931. Sister Mary Eymard received the habit in 1932, made her first profession in 1934, and...
Sister Mary Margaret Quinn (formerly Sister Charles Agnes)
...as black Catholics; she was concerned that parishioners resonate with Pope Paul’s quote, “enrich the Church with your gift of blackness.” For many years either she or the volunteers she recruited wrote the Black History Worship Service which was proclaimed at the beginning of Sunday Morning Mass. It’s as if this was always where she was meant to be; this place and these people were the love of her life. Her personality melded with their culture—their music and their spirituality...
Bonjour to all!
...her very famous aunt, Marie Antoinette! Isn’t that fascinating! Well it is to me. Yes, Marie Antoinette was the sister of Queen Amelia’s mother. Oh, so much for French history. Did you know the new Saint Mother Theodore shrine, which is under construction at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, will have what is called the French Room, to honor her native roots? As you enter this room you will notice and perhaps feel the presence of French decor. The carpet with a fleur-de-lis...