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Season of Creation 2022: Most Important Actions We Can All Do
...office, church, etc., Garden in a Climate Friendly Way. Plant trees. Plant native plants, pollinator-friendly flowers and spread wildflower seeds. Use environmentally friendly practices in gardening, leaf blowing, etc., Adjust our driving routine. Combine multiple errands into one trip. Carpool. Consider a hybrid or electric car, Petition policy makers. Write officials and when possible, visit them to let them know that we stand for the stewardship of creation. Call in on specific legislation, Vote Knowledgably. Study the candidates and vote...
Valentine’s Day 2012
...by creating the expectation that it wasn’t acceptable to play favorites or ignore a classmate. And, I know, that the lesson of Valentine’s Day inclusivity was taught in so many other seemingly little ways — being expected to include everyone in recess games, being assigned a class of younger kids to walk to and from the lunchroom and then helping to get them organized and settled, teaming up for projects with those classmates not in my friend group. Yep —...
Young woman’s letters help explain formation
...and makes one determined to give Him the best kind of service possible to human nature, helped by His grace, of course.” “It is as if God has given us a beautiful book with blank pages. We try each day to put in the lesson He would have us learn. We repeat often. But each day sees some new development as we learn a little better how to follow the directions of the Divine Teacher. The thrill of something new...
Forgiveness and reconciliation
...violate the great commandment: to love one another. All of us will recall one of childhood’s first lessons that followed immediately after we took another child’s toy or were rude to anyone. We heard the clear directive: “Say ‘I’m sorry!’” We may have learned the words by rote, but we soon learned from experience that some conduct is not acceptable. Then, when another accepted our apology, we learned forgiveness. We hoped the other person would respond so life could moved...
The spirituality of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...caprices. This, it seems to me, should make you take once for all, and keep, the resolution to do better.” To Sister Mary Xavier, “Endeavor to curb your temper with the children. Remember that you have not only to teach them how to sew, but also how to become meek, humble, patient, etc., and this kind of lesson is given much better by example than by precept.” Always a visionary, Mother Theodore’s vision was nonetheless founded on the realities of...
Pianos and Dina
...To counteract this loss, she began classical piano lessons at age 10 and has been playing ever since. From performing duets with her sister at youth recitals to learning jazz improvisation skills at summer camp, Dina and pianos have forged quite a friendship. In fact, the challenge now is keeping Dina away from them! Put her in a room, chapel or cathedral with a piano and soon enough, like a moth to flame, she’ll be sitting at it, filling the...
Sister Joyce Brophy
...the need became evident for quality day care for the children of employees on both sides of the campus at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. When the Montessori School at Saint Mary-of-the- Woods College closed, the opportunity to use that area enabled this day care idea to become reality. Sister Barbara Doherty, then the college’s president, was very open to this plan. The college provided the space and the Congregation assumed sponsorship of the corporation. Many of our retired sisters have given time...
Sister Kay Manley
...the possibility of attending high school at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. After a vocation presentation in the eighth grade, my friend and I decided to tell Sister Marie Kevin Tighe, our eighth grade teacher, that we wanted to go to high school at St. Mary-of-the-Woods. The next day and every day after telling Sister Marie Kevin our plan, we avoided her for the remainder of our eighth grade year and continued with our plans to enroll in Scecina High School in Indianapolis....
Sister Patty Wallace
...a personal friend. Sister Mary Ann Stewart was one of her high school teachers. And, turning back the clock a little, Sister Marie Kevin Tighe taught her father at a school in New Castle, Ind. “Sister Frances Joan gave me a card that said bloom where you are planted. I still have that card,” Sister Patty said. “I always had a lot of contact with the Sisters of Providence. We lived in an Indianapolis neighborhood that was near my school...
Providence in the Desert opens new doors for student
...for Martha that had been closed for years. About five years ago, Sister Carol Nolan, SP, came to a church service on Avenue 70 in rural Thermal, California, where Martha lives, and announced that she was planning to start teaching English to those interested in learning. Martha signed up and has been attending classes ever since. Sister Carol and other teachers with Providence in the Desert go to the homes of their students, workers tired from laboring all day in...
Sister Marie McCarthy awarded first-ever Guerin Outreach Ministries Leadership and Advocacy Award
...and its neighboring communities. Providence in the Desert offers English as a Second Language instruction for adults and music lessons for children to residents of the Coachella Valley in Southern California. “Sister Marie has supported the beginning work of Guerin Outreach Ministries, taking on the lead role to structure and incorporate this group of ministries. She has advocated for our funding, been our voice to the General Council and consistently explained to all who were questioning why this group of...
Sister Wendy Workman
...education and religion teacher. She ministered at St. Angela, Chicago, for two years. After graduate school, “she was then assigned to physical education at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and took up residence in the Woodland Inn. She practiced her ballroom dancing lessons some evenings in her room and Sister Denise Wilkinson can testify that she heard Sister Wendy practicing with a broomstick the waltzes she would teach SMWC students. Every year, Sister Wendy worked in the children’s summer camps,” remembered Sister...