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It’s National CSA Day!
...connection between local farmland and your dinner table. If you don’t live near Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, there may be a CSA program in your area. Searching LocalHarvest.com is a good place to start. Plant the seeds for a strong community and healthy life by becoming a CSA member in your area today — National CSA Day. If you’re a CSA member in your area or if you weren’t familiar with a CSA until now I’d love to hear from you. Please...
The Other Five: A brief look at the lives of the sisters who came from France in 1840 with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, has a feast day. She has sainthood, receiving the highest honor bestowed by the Catholic Church. Her legacy has been shared worldwide. She is well recognized as someone who made a difference in Indiana’s legendary history. Saint Mother Theodore Guerin was a tireless missionary, coming to Indiana in 1840 to work among God’s people, bringing education to the uneducated, providing food for the hungry, administering medicine for...
Sister Barbara Bluntzer
...community to be very encouraging to anyone who has a talent they would like to develop. It certainly beats trying to put square pegs into round holes when it comes to choosing the ministry we feel called to,” she added. Favorites Food: any and all Mexican flower/plant: poinsettia, because they grow so well in south Texas movie: Fiddler on the Roof TV: almost anything on the National Geographic Channel vacation spot: mountains anywhere recreation: visiting art museums, even local ones,...
Sister Mary Ann Stewart
...a pretty supportive local community most of my religious life. I enjoy the relationships you form with people who have the same ideals and share prayer life. Some of us go to Mass together on Saturday night, then out to dinner together, and we just share our ministries, the hard things and the good things,” she said. “We also share prayer together after supper most evenings.” Sister Mary Ann feels fulfilled with her Sisters of Providence life. “Yes, it has...
Sister Denise Wilkinson
...the Congregation’s general council, to make important decisions, lead the pilgrimage to Rome, plan the local celebrations and handle a few thousand other details. “There have been so many times I have said to myself, ‘Why am I here?’ There is no answer to that, of course. I think, in a way, I was asking myself how is it that I want to be in this spot? How does the Congregation want me to represent them at this moment? It...
Sister Barbara Zeller
...ministry of the Sisters of Providence that collaborates with local social-service agencies to provide need-based assistance: adult literacy/GED instruction; tutoring for school-age children; health care services, including a clinic and medication assistance programs; licensed group homes for foster children; family reunification and preservation; shelter and case management; independent living classes for youth in foster care; English as a Second Language, music and computer classes; counseling; information and referral services; apartments for people age 62 and older with limited incomes and...
A remarkable woman
...fragile health brought on by a harsh treatment of an earlier illness. She was not able to eat solid food. When her superior asked her to lead the mission, however, she embraced it with enthusiasm. The pain Mother Theodore’s sacrifice caused was evident in a journal entry: “Oh my dear friends! Oh my country! How much it costs to give you up! …” The house the bishop had built for the sisters in the midst of a forest was not...
Sister Mary Montgomery
...my parents. She was one of the chefs in my early days of community. What a wonderful person. She would slip us special ice cream, those little cheese things. She dressed up everything so nicely. When we grew up, we had plenty of food, but it was simple. What you saw was what you got. It didn’t have any extra garnish on it or things cut in special designs. I was amazed that you could make an orange or a...
Life in the Weihsien internment camp, 1943
...in Weihsien for a short time before being sent back to Peking. (Credit: weihsien-paintings.org) Then the internees realize that outside the high wall of the camp, the brave local Chinese merchants are willing to make some covert money selling supplies like eggs, sugar, peanuts, and honey. A sneaky, nobody-tell-the-Japanese black market starts to spring up. I’ll let Sister Ann Colette take it from here: “Those who were adventurous enough to deal in the black market took orders and the money...
Sister Denise Wilkinson’s Gospel reflection on the life of Sister Jeanne Knoerle
Sisters Jeanne Knoerle and Denise Wilkinson in 2009. When I first glanced at the Scriptures of today’s liturgy, I expected I’d hone in on the Gospel, often called the “gospel of Providence.” The ideas are enthusiastically hopeful and so reassuring in the promise of God’s love for us. God’s love isn’t theoretical – no. God’s care is concrete and real – clothes, food, drink. All will be given – as long as we strive to make real the kin-dom of...
Providence Self-Sufficiency Ministries: Celebrating 20 years of success
...was, “Past, Present and Future.” Current and former residents and others attended the event to reminisce about their experiences with PSSM. The campus senior center was set up in a circular fashion, meaning those who attended walked around the room, munching on food while witnessing first-hand the accomplishments of the ministry. Prior to the beginning of the Georgetown campus, Sister Barbara Ann and a handful of Sisters of Providence lived at Holy Family Convent in New Albany. They started two...
Twenty-eight Sisters celebrate Jubilees
...from left) Sisters Helen Dolores Losleben, Mary Loyola Bender, Agnes Arvin, Rosalie Marie Weller, Catherine Arkenberg, (back) General Council members Sisters Dawn Tomaszewski, Jenny Howard and General Superior Sister Denise Wilkinson, Sister Rose Marita Riordan, Sister Bernadette Mary Carroll, General Council member Sister Mary Beth Klingel, Sister Mary Imelda Coulup and General Council member Sister Lisa Stallings. Sister Joseph is a native of Indianapolis. She currently ministers as the director of Providence Food Pantry in West Terre Haute. Sister Joseph...