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The Easter Triduum: celebrating our salvation story
...Christ. We light the Easter candle. We follow the Light into the church. We light our candles from Him. We share the light and we proclaim in song this new wonder that God has done. We next break open the Word. Old and New Testament Scriptures recall the history of salvation. We sing and pray and keep Vigil. And then after six weeks of silence, we break forth in Alleluias as the Gospel of Resurrection is about to be proclaimed....
HOPE summer 2019 — A community of hope
...a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant from the Indiana State Library, digital representations of the personal letters of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, along with transcriptions and translations, will be available sometime after July. Sisters preserving memories through memory books Memory books detail and preserve aspects of a person’s life history with photographs, artifacts and narratives. They facilitate life-affirming interaction, encourage deep reflection and celebrate life events through story-telling and reminiscing. And they are effective in stimulating memories, especially...
Sisters preserving memories through memory books
...Sisters of Providence. Memory books are a way for individuals to recall and record their significant life events in a memoir format. They detail and preserve aspects of a person’s life history with photographs, artifacts and narratives. They highlight precious details of a unique life lived for present and future generations. In effect, the New Testament could be considered Jesus’ memory book, the written account of Jesus’ life and legacy as told by Jesus or experienced through his apostles and...
This Memorial Day: Take time to Remember
“My friends lie here … Pilgrims from other lands … heroines of unknown sacrifices … obscure apostle unaware of the magnitude of their influence.” Sister Eugenia Logan, (RIP), was the historian of the Congregation from 1959 to 1976 and, during her tenure, wrote the second volume of the SP history. This quote, penned by Sister of Providence Community Historian Sister Eugenia Logan, (RIP), in reference to those buried in the SP cemetery, came to mind as I tried to collect...
Leadership Team shares statement on death penalty
...six since 2010. Other states have set moratoriums on the death penalty or indefinitely stayed executions in recent years. We also know that support for executing persons in our name is on the decline across the country. A Gallup poll conducted in October 2018 found that for the first time in our history, fewer than 50 percent of respondents believed that the death penalty was being applied fairly. Only five miles away from our Motherhouse sits the nation’s only federal...
Sister Barbara Ann Zeller (formerly Sister Dorothy Jean)
...in her ministry history that she did teach Grade six at Precious Blood in Jasper, Ind, for about three months. Following this ministerial experience, Barb served primarily in administration as Community Director of Retirement, Infirmary Administrator, in the office of the Indianapolis Archdiocese of Social Ministries, Director of Gerontology, Director of Social Services for Elderly Housing, Providence Retirement Home Administrator/CEO, Ministry Consultant, Director of Providence Self Sufficiency Ministries, and recently as the President/CEO of Guerin, Inc., and Meadows of Guerin,...
A Reflection for Reception into the Novitiate
...coming year. Among others, Sister Janice Smith, your novice director, will be searching with you as well, as the two of you transplant yourself in St. Louis and begin a new venture living, working and praying alongside the Dominican sisters there. Together you will break open the scriptures and interpret what it means to live the Gospel. You will continue to explore what it means to be a religious today and what it has meant in the history of our...
Faces of our future: a new generation of Sisters of Providence
...Spanish, began a new ministry in mid-July with the KINO Border Initiative in Nogales, Arizona/Nogales, Mexico. This is a faith-based group founded by several Catholic organizations. Their vision is to help make humane, just and workable migration between the U.S. and Mexico a reality. At this time in history, the Sisters of Providence are very grateful to have a presence at the border in our Sister Tracey. Sister Anna Fan Sister Anna Fan entered the Sisters of Providence from Taiwan...
Interculturality: journey of radical welcome
...“that exist between culturally diverse human groups in a given society.” From the beginning Interculturality, as a dynamic, has been part of the fabric of the Congregation throughout its history. Granted, it was not always named and celebrated. Mother Theodore and her companions brought the cultural heritages of the Celts and the people of Brittany, France and of the Roman Catholic Church to the mid-western frontier of the United States. There they met and engaged with Native Americans and settlers...
Against All Odds: Focus on Sister Eugene Marie Howard, SP
...the sisters. In the beginning of this journal, Sister Eugene Marie wrote: “To our dear Reverend Superior General, Mother Mary Cleophas, to our beloved Sisters in America whom we have left, and to those who will follow us to this field from across the Pacific, as well as to those of our dear Chinese who will in coming generations take up the work we have begun in this foundation, we give this little history of the first five years...
Immigration injustice: what can I do?
...I also will encourage them to work to open efficient pathway to legal status rather than spending billions to detain people and separate families. I will ask Congress to withhold funds for expansion of detention facilities and to hold the Department of Homeland Security accountable for how funds are spent. An inclusive future For most of my life, I have been proud to be a citizen of this nation. In recent months, however, I have dug more into the history...
Sisters Jan Craven and Paula Damiano: What does it mean to you to be a Catholic Sister Today?
...whose mission and ministry is all about love, mercy and justice can only be about freedom. Freedom to be mercy … to love tenderly … and to act justly! I have the freedom to choose how I live out those concepts and I have a history of standing on the shoulders of great women who were driven by the very same three motivators … beginning with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. I love to teach … and so to interact with...