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Sister Sue Pietrus
...this was Sue’s favorite quote from Mother Theodore. How blessed we are that Ray and Florence Pietrus decided that their first-born child should take piano lessons. Thank you, Ray, for your part in nurturing Sue’s great gift of music and for the years and Saturdays you spent chauffering Susan and your other daughter, Nancy, from your south side Chicago home to the local Catholic school for piano lessons with Sister Marie. It seems to us that you and Flo and...
Bringing beauty into the world – the late Sister Cecilia Clare Bocard
...the late Sister Cecilia Clare Bocard in a 1962 lecture to music majors at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Often referred to as “the sister with the dancing feet,” Sister Cecilia Clare began taking piano lessons in first grade and organ lessons in third. By the tender age of 9, Sister Cecilia Clare, born Frances Ada, was the New Albany, Ind., parish organist for the weekday and Sunday Masses. Too small to reach the organ’s pedals, little Frances would have to partner...
Sister Jeanette Marie Lucinio
...I could hardly wait until I could go to first grade,” she said. Inspiration continued. “Sister Alice Marie Twohig (RIP) was my first grade teacher. I was so inspired by what she taught us, especially in religion lessons. I would come home from school, gather all the kids in the neighborhood, sit them on the porch steps and teach them the lessons I learned that day,” Sister Jeanette recalled. “Another early experience was with Sister Louise Gertrude Bordenet (RIP). She...
Sister Maureen Fallon
...gave up waiting for my call. But it was simply that I didn’t know how to do it; it wasn’t that I couldn’t do it. It was that I didn’t know how. So is that something that came with experience? Experience and people helping me. The first year I was teaching I had one sister who would help me organize my chemistry lessons to present them well, and another sister who would help me with my geometry lessons so I...
Sister Cecilia Ann Miller
...to teach a course in music methods for special education majors. Knowing very little about the field, Sister Cecilia Ann took a few workshops and then volunteered the summer before first teaching the class at Happiness Bag camp, a camp in the Terre Haute, Ind., area for children with special needs. She also took on a few special needs students for private lessons. Thus began what I consider the second point of influence in her life, a love for people...
Sister Dorothy McLaughlin
...were not being done as she would do them. I do know that Dorothy truly appreciated all that was done for her even though it was a challenge having others do for her what she truly wanted to do for herself. “There is a giving which will not impoverish and a withholding that will not enrich.” Sister Dorothy treasured her family. She never forgot the lessons she learned at an early age from her mom. We know that these lessons...
Life lessons from Ebony
In February, my brother and sister-in-law, Steve and Becky, had to put down their beloved Chihuahua that had companioned them for 12 years. At the time, I wrote, “May we, like Ebony, leave this world a better place for our having been in it.” As I accompanied Steve and Becky in their grief and attended to some of my own, I’ve thought a lot about her legacy. What was it about her that infused so much joy into their lives...
Remembering Sister Cecilia Clare Bocard
A photo of Sister Cecilia Clare Bocard from 1983. She began taking piano lessons in the first grade and organ lessons in the third grade. You could say that music was in Sister Cecilia Clare Bocard’s blood. Sister Cecilia Clare was born Frances Ava Bocard on April 13, 1899, in New Albany, Indiana. She entered the Congregation in 1916 and was a Sister of Providence for 78 years. Sister Cecilia Clare earned degrees in composition and piano from the Bush...
Sister Cecilia Carter (formerly Sister Mary Cecilia)
...and Maryland. After professing her perpetual vows, Celia was sent to California, where she ministered at several missions until her last mission at Tustin. Mary Therese Lea told me that most music teachers would go to get the students when they forgot to come for their lesson. Not Celia – she would read a spiritual book during the half-hour lesson time. Our Nancy Bartasavich was one of Celia’s pupils and a good friend. Nancy is Celia’s second health care representative...
Sister Patricia Fillenwarth (formerly Sister Joseph Monica)
...of courses best called “Life Lessons.” Courses in this Patty-designed curriculum included: If You Say You’re Going To Do Something — Do It; Life Is Equal Parts Laughter and Tears — Deal with It; Build A Dream by Working Hard, Praying Hard and Finding Great Ministry Partners; Start Everything and Anything by Answering the Question ‘Who Is My Neighbor?’ Then Go From There. Patty moved to the motherhouse at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in November 2018. So many times she expressed her...
Come, take my hand …
...step in. By doing this, they are sharing and offering that endless flow of love … that life-giving, soul-nourishing God-given mercy and grace. I guess they learned the lesson of an abundant heart and how it only stays full by giving love away. This is the lesson I’m still learning from them. Continuing the journey Statue of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, right, at Jean Brown’s home I retired a little over a year ago. On my last day at...
A Reflection for National Day of Mourning
...History Lesson This National Day of Mourning is important. It serves as an important history lesson, not only for protesters to advocate for what they believe in, but also for all of us to remind us that the Thanksgiving holiday is very painful for many Native Americans. And for me, understanding the history of this special day of remembrance has led me to also reflect once more on the words of Jesus, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall...