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Archives: Keeper of the Stories
...school, but they are not the only voices who could teach you lessons. There are other stories and other lives with meaning,” she said. “It gives you humility to learn about them. We are only as good as the people who have lived before us.” Technology is heavily used by the Archives staff who are almost all of retirement age. “The majority of our requests come through email,” said Sister Marie Esther Sivertsen, Archives assistant who joined the staff in...
A pleasant sounding instrument
...pray, and a lesson about God being involved in their lives through the Word of God, Scripture, or how Christianity grew from the time of Jesus to the time of 2011,” said Sister Kay. This study of God also takes place outside the classroom and in God’s creation. Students are involved in a myriad of service and justice programs. These service projects include ones close to home like the annual “Adopt a Kid” Christmas program to more global ones including...
Spiritual direction: you are not alone
...in this event or this circumstance?’ There is always a lesson. How can I become more knowledgeable of God’s love in this event? Sometimes it isn’t easy,” Sister Catherine said. “In each person there is an inner voice. A person learns to listen more carefully to silence, or do more reading, or just take a walk and be with nature. We can find God many ways,” she noted. “In our spiritual journeys, we are always growing, we are always learning...
Giving her whole self to music
...able to teach at several levels,” she said. “This is very enriching and has helped me see how music is entwined with everything — history, language, math and science — every aspect of culture.” However, she is surprised to be teaching music in her current ministry, Providence in the Desert in the Coachella Valley, Calif. As she talked with people in this Hispanic community while she was building the ministry the parents requested music lessons for their children. “I surely...
Guerin Outreach Ministries: Catholic religious sisters offer English classes, friendship to residents of St. Anthy Trailer Park in rural Mecca, Calif.
...in English. And this is what we do, we help them with that. To help the parents is to help the children. We help both to be better,” Sister Loretta said. There are about 300 trailer parks in the Coachella Valley. In November of 2011 Providence in the Desert expanded to offer classes in St. Anthony. At present lessons are only offered at a handful of the parks. “We would love to be able to expand further. We have people...
The wisdom of Saint Mother Theodore: Letter to Sister Maria
...we should perform well such and such an employment if it were given to us. He wants to turn us away from the real good that we can do at the present moment, and for this end he aids us in projecting an immense good for some future period, or under circumstances which will never be offered to us. Let us not allow ourselves to be caught by this father of lies. Give your music lessons, etc., to the best...
Don’t take yourself too seriously
...frightening situation into a comic one, describing a perilous coach ride as a “dance without a fiddle.” She could laugh at her own failed attempts to converse in English, creating scenes that could have come directly from I Love Lucy. She could dramatize the bloody battle she and her companions waged with mosquitoes in Cincinnati. She could face hardships, fear, deprivation, and still laugh. Perhaps she HAD to laugh. The lesson here, at least for me, is not to take...
Sister Mildred Anne Dudine
...at the piano and played by ear while his wife sang. He encouraged each of his seven children to take music lessons and as a result, each played at least one musical instrument. A sister who lived with Mildred Anne in Jasper recalled that the convent rang with song and instruments whenever the Dudine family visited,” Sister Ann Casper said. After graduation from Providence Juniorate at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Mildred entered the Sisters of Providence, Jan. 12, 1935. She made her...
Sister Beatrice Hoberg (formerly Sister Mary Canice)
...use of quotations, maybe from famous writers or from some of the old prayers or old sayings we had used years ago. She would say, “Please, Sister, would it be a practice of tomorrow’s lesson and pleasing to our Blessed Mother if someone would deal me a decent hand?” Bea, thank you for keeping us laughing, and for the life you have shared with us. And let us end with this poem which was written by Beatrice in 1990 and...
Sister Ruth Sampson (formerly Sister Constance Mary)
...I personally recall a time in Taiwan when the Bishop invited Sister Ruth, myself and a few other of our sisters to a very fancy restaurant for dinner. Two persons ordered oysters and clams which were served in the shells. When they finished that course, the waitress came to remove the plate in front of the Bishop and Ruth said, “Oh no, I need those shells. I’ll teach a lesson on oysters and clams.” At which point she took the...
Rejoicing in the life of Sister Jeanne Knoerle
Sister Jeanne Knoerle gives a fiber spinning lesson to this young girl at a White Violet Farm Alpacas open house. Please join the Sisters of Providence in remembering Sister Jeanne Knoerle who died Monday, June 10, 2013 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, by sharing your reflections and memories on her abundant and fruitful life in the comments space below....
Sister Denise’s “expert” Father’s Day reflections
...my kids do things I don’t particularly approve of but being quiet because they need to learn life lessons on their own. 3. Paying for those weddings while giving away my girls. 4. Not talking to my kids as often as I’d wish because they have their own lives and commitments.” I’ve had a wonderful time listening to, reading and reflecting on the experience of fatherhood as seen through the eyes and hearts of our SP staff partners Bob, Paul...