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Sister Jeanette Marie Lucinio
...She became a pastoral associate and director of religious education for St. Zachary Church in Des Plaines, Ill. She was recruited away from that ministry to join the staff of the Department of Word and Worship at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, where she spent 25 years. Today, she retains the title of professor emerita at CTU, but she also serves as director of catechumenate for Sacred Heart Parish in Palos Hills, Ill. Sister Jeanette enjoys working at the local...
Sister Marie Kevin Tighe
...world. The circles of engagement were concentric and interacting. After four years in seminary work, I was asked to open an office to develop pastoral councils in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. This was an effort to enable the laity to take their rightful place in the decision-making process in the Church, another call of the Second Vatican Council. Now for the last nine years, I have been given the honor of promoting the Cause for the canonization of our foundress,...
Sister Paul Marie Gutgsell
...In Indiana, she ministered either as a teacher or principal at St. Philip Neri, Indianapolis; St. Malachy, Brownsburg; Cathedral, Fort Wayne; Holy Trinity and Catholic Central, New Albany; St. Paul, Sellersburg; St. John the Baptist, Newburgh; and St. Joseph, Evansville. In 1984, she started working for St. Joseph Parish, Evansville, eventually becoming a parish associate. From 1989 to 1993, she served as a pastoral associate for Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Village Parish. Sister Paul Marie retired in 1993, offering her services in...
Sister Patricia Marie Woods
...Patricia Marie taught at Holy Redeemer, College Park, Md. From 1981 to 1987, she served as a librarian at St. Rose, Chelsea, Mass. “In 1987, Sister Patricia Marie went to St. Joseph Parish in Quincy, Mass., as pastoral associate where her delight was to take the Eucharist to persons who were homebound. Her weekends were spent caring for her ailing mother until she died,” said Sister Catherine. “Sister Patricia Marie returned to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1997 where her ministry was...
Sister Maureen Therese Brennan
...pastoral ministry at Incarnation Parish, Sarasota, retiring in 1995 only to minister as a coordinator of volunteers at the parish. Sister Maureen Therese returned to the Woods in 1999. “Throughout the years, Sister Maureen Therese was an avid reader who also enjoyed playing cards and working crossword puzzles, especially the New York Times puzzles which she always worked in ink! She also loved to travel, and some of her fondest memories were of trips she took with Father Bill Adams...
Prayer to the Providence of God
St. Claude de la Colombière, SJ Written by St. Claude La Colombiere, SJ Loving and tender Providence of my God, into your hands I commend my spirit; to you I abandon my hopes and fears, my desires and repugnances, my temporal and eternal prospects. To you I commit the wants of my perishable body; to you I commit the more precious interests of my immortal soul for whose lot I have nothing to fear as long as I do not...
A gadget-happy Sister
This article is reprinted from the summer 2011 issue of HOPE. Sister Joanne Golding loves being plugged into all sorts of technology. Sister Joanne Golding is a self-proclaimed computer nut. So, she seems to be well connected in ministry as director of academic computing at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, even though she plans to retire at the end of the current semester. A lover of mathematics, she jumped at the opportunity when Indiana State University allowed doctoral students to switch from...
1956: a year of commemoration
...College Library and Foley Art Studios. Additionally, July 26-28 were days of celebration at the Woods. Participating in the July celebrations were two Sisters of Providence of Ruillé, Sisters Gabriel Marie and Maria Joseph. On July 26 the play, “Way of Heaven,” by Sister Mary Roger Madden was presented. This three-act play portrayed the life of the Congregation’s foundress. The next evening, the choral work of Sister Cecilia Clare Bocard, “In the Providence of God: A Cycle of Psalms,” was...
Practical ways to make a difference
...his contagious interest, Sister Florence developed a love for things in the heavens, in the trees and on the ground. Early this summer, Sister Florence took vacation from her ministry as a pastoral associate at Our Lady of Grace Parish, Chicago, to participate in the Women of Providence in Collaboration’s Earth Plunge event. This workshop features several days of immersion into Earth to contemplate its impact on participants’ spirituality. Although she has always been aware of the sacredness of water,...
Three Sisters of Providence celebrate their 25th anniversary
...entered the Congregation Aug. 16, 1987, from St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Pontiac, Mich. She professed perpetual vows July 21, 1993. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Bernardino Rivadavia College in Argentina. Indiana ministries: None. Ministries elsewhere: Los Angeles: pastoral coordinator for Hispanic ministry, Archdiocese of Los Angeles San Gabriel Region (1989-1993); coordinator of Hispanic liturgy, Office of Worship, Archdiocese of Los Angeles (1993-1998). For more information The Sisters of Providence, a Congregation of nearly 400 women religious,...
Sister Maureen Clare Lehmann
...St. Rose, Chelsea. She spent 10 years teaching at Immaculata Prep, Washington, D.C., where she also ministered one year as a secretary. Sister Maureen Clare spent two years at Providence High School, Chicago. For 15 years she ministered in secondary schools in Indiana at Central Catholic, Fort Wayne, and St. Rose, Vincennes. From 1987 to 1993, Sister Maureen Clare served as a pastoral minister or administrative assistant in St. Rose Parish, Chelsea. She returned to the Woods in 1993 and...
From The Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...the Mother of God. The Parish Council has prepared various activities wherein all the parishioners would be involved. In this regard, the Pastoral Council officers are requesting a Relic of Saint Anne-Thérèse Guérin. This will be placed in the Chapel of Holy Relics of the church in order to receive the veneration of our Marian devotees and the faithful, and to promote the devotion and the holy life of Saint Anne-Thérèse Guérin. Also from the Philippines: The Knights of the...