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HOPE summer 2020 — The circle of giving
...emotional support to neighbors Now she spends her retirement years preparing food for shut-ins, working with the parish bereavement committee and tutoring students in English as a second language. Sister Donna Marie Fu: Called by God to serve a global church Sister Donna Marie feels she experienced such a fulfilling life in answering her own call to offer her life to God. She continues to encourage that call in other young women. She regrets that political circumstances have prevented others...
Sister Eileen Rose Bonner: A spiritual and emotional support to neighbors
...to be available to listen,” she says. “God puts you where He wants you.” Ministry to neighbors After more than 20 years of sharing her gifts in hospital work, Sister Eileen Rose was ready for some rest. Now she spends her retirement years preparing food for shut-ins (that time as a cook in the infirmary paid off at last), working with the parish bereavement committee and tutoring students in English as a second language. She is also helping an immigrant...
Sister Donna Marie Fu: Called by God to serve a global church
...Chicago. After staying overnight with the sisters at Providence High School, a sister accompanied her by train to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. It had been 25 years since a woman from China had entered the Congregation. She was greeted warmly as a Christmas gift. Becoming a sister Adapting to American food and to what she regarded as strange novitiate practices was not easy. But she recalls: “I always thought, one more thing to offer.” During her time of formation as a sister...
White Violet Center: Though the world may pause, life always moves forward
...to keep it healthy. I’m learning firsthand where food comes from, the labor that it takes to produce it, the strategies behind selling it, and the planning that goes into keeping the excess from going to waste. I’m learning to live in reciprocity with the world around me, and that doing something well means making the time to do it right. Picking pumpkins and winter squash But perhaps the most important thing I have learned here is that I am...
Why is it so difficult to talk about racism?
...immigrants. This country has had a love-hate relationship with Mexicans since we borrowed/stole/bought their land from people that did not own it. Every few years, this country finds a reason to send them back over the border. Today, it is no longer just Mexicans who are targeted. Less pay for the same job. Higher interest rates charged. Higher food costs. Higher housing costs for inadequate living conditions. What does all that equal? The real question that should be asked? How...
Sister Dorothy Drobis (formerly Sister Irene Therese)
...palpable. “The more time we spent together, it became evident that she was much, much more than a companion or mentor. We are blessed to have been Sister Dorothy’s friends. She later accompanied me along my path of conversion to Catholicism.” Providence Associate Donna Gilmore remembers Dorothy as “a quiet unassuming lady who was steadfast in her faith and had all the answers to my many questions. I also took delight in the fact that she liked Chinese food and...
A new start in the Providence Community
...Providence Food Pantry in West Terre Haute and has gotten to know some of the sisters, who invited her to become a Providence Associate. Whatever the path that brings these women and men to the Woods, we are excited to have them join us on the journey of love, mercy and justice with our God and one another. Please pray for them and for us over the next year that they, and we, may grow in whatever way needed with...
Gratitude
...gone before us, leading the way, creating traditions honored. Grateful for gifts that have been given and gifts that have been shared. We hold in our hearts those who are without home that a home may be shared for shelter. We hold in our hearts those who are without food that sustenance may be provided. We hold in our hearts those who are ill and unable to be with family and friends. Grant healing to them and peace to their...
But this Thanksgiving, we choose gratitude
...Wednesday, Nov. 9 (2011). It said simply, “An ordinary day.” I have such friends and family. I don’t pay enough attention to the good food I am able and privileged to eat, but I probably will now! And the next time I have an ordinary day, I am going to make note of it, and give thanks for it because we all need those kinds of days every now and then. After my foray into Barbara’s gratitude practice, I make...
Journals and Letters week 8: Indiana arrival
...later she was embarrassed by her conversation about his having no housekeeper. Indeed that “would have been pure luxury” as far as the priest was concerned, as he went on to describe his meals and sleep habits. As Mother Theodore got into the stage, was she still mulling over her remarks, wondering if she had offended him? Embarrassed perhaps? Was she pondering what might face her in terms of dwellings and food? Shocked She also described “the hut” which served...
Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...Kennedy High School (1971-73), * Orange, Calif.: Principal, Marywood (1973-80), * Joliet, Ill.: Assistant Superintendent Teacher Personnel Catholic School Office, Diocese of Joliet (1980-93), * Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Archivist Assistant, Sisters of Providence (1993-97), * Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: General Secretary, Sisters of Providence (1997-2006), and * Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Volunteer, Sisters of Providence (2007-present). Sister Theresa Clare Carr is a native of Indianapolis. Currently, she ministers as a volunteer for The Helping Hands and Providence Food Pantry, both in West Terre Haute, Ind....
Gratitude
...are without home that a home may be shared for shelter. We hold in our hearts those who are without food that sustenance may be provided. We hold in our hearts those who are ill and unable to be with family and friends. Grant healing to them and peace to their family and friends. We hold in our hearts those who have died that they may be granted their heavenly reward. With grateful hearts we bow our heads in thanksgiving....