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Sister Donna Marie Fu: Called by God to serve a global church
...1990s organizations were looking for instructors to teach English in Chinese universities. Sister Donna Marie was encouraged to apply. So, she brushed up on a subject she had not taught for years. And, in 1993, when she was eligible to retire, she began a 22-year career as an English teacher in Chinese universities. But for her, the real ministry was on the weekends. Soon she found Catholic parishes where she could use her passion for evangelization in teaching and practicing...
Ask Sister Dina: How many Sisters of Providence are there and what are their roles?
...life to which we are called, we each endeavor to live out with integrity and enthusiasm our mission. The mission of the Sisters of Providence to collaborate with others to create a more just and hope-filled world through prayer, education, service and advocacy. Some ministry areas in which Sisters of Providence serve include serving within the Congregation or within the Catholic Church in parishes or arch/diocesan ministries. Other sisters serve in spiritual direction, education, social and outreach services and healthcare,...
Sister Mary Lee Mettler (formerly Sister Irma)
...bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and her master’s degree from Indiana University, both degrees in English. Later, she earned a second master’s in Religious Studies from the University of Dayton. The three degrees blended well with her love for writing, especially essays and articles with a religious theme and meditative writings for use in parishes during the seasons of Advent, Lent and Easter. Mary Lee had a sharp mind, or as her brother-in-law expressed it, she was “one smart...
Sister Charles Van Hoy
...she served as principal while teaching two grades. Sister Charles Van Hoy with General Officers Sisters Jeanne Hagelskamp and Dawn Tomaszewski Another time, she taught and was also the school librarian. When she began adult education, she taught classes and was the bookkeeper. For another 10 years, she ministered as pastoral associate for two parishes at the same time. As she expressed it when describing her ministry: “Whatever comes up is what I do. If I can do it, I...
Sister Ruth Ellen Doane
...would join him in ministry at both parishes. The rest was a grace and joy filled time in shared ministry for myself and Sister Ruth Ellen. … Our ministry was one of full mutual support and direction. We shared the view that our primary role was to complement and ably assist our mutual ministry for our fellow parish members. I knew I had the gift of Sister Ruth Ellen’s most able support and friendship.” Beth Cook, a parishioner, shared that...
Sister Mary Patricia Cummings (formerly Sister Marie Janice)
...and Mary Julia. There was her extended family, the nieces, like me, cousins and nephews she spent time with. There was her church family, the parishes and schools she ran. And then there was her Sisters of Providence family, a group of women who supported each other, all the way from the Juniorate in 1939 to retirement at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. That was her truly unique and special family, the one that made it possible for her to get an education,...
Oral History: Sister Gloria Memering looks back on more than 60 years as a Sister of Providence
...music to be a tremendous way to relate to people, from kindergarteners through all ages of people in a parish. It has afforded her the experience of ministering to wonderful parishes and communities. She taught piano lessons as well, and at one of her schools the boys begged her to teach them guitar. So, she learned the guitar and taught them during noon hours at school. Pretty soon they were performing in church. She also taught religious education classes. When...
A 2021 Reflection for our Senior Jubilee
...turned upside down by events that you hardly dreamed possible – Vatican Council II, for instance? Suddenly new calls came that took you from your classroom to parishes, hospitals and clinics, campuses, the streets, the desert, even prison. Many of you have responded to the call to be leaders – within our SP community, for sure, but in other communities and situations as well, serving as administrators of health care facilities, directors of ministries and programs, movers and shakers of...
Sister Joseph Ellen Keitzer: Blessed by the African American Catholic Community
...Angela Parish in 2005, merging several other parishes into St. Martin de Porres Parish. “St. Angela was a family. Their church is a family in the African American community. They share everything: their joys, their hopes. Everybody knows everybody else. It’s their social life. It was hard during that time.” Relationship is key Though the parish closed, Sister Joseph Ellen has stayed on ministering in the community. “It’s been a wonderful journey. I love the people. I’ve been so blessed...
Archives: telling our story of living the Gospel
...respond to queries from scholars writing about the early years of the Catholic Church in Indiana, internment camps in wartime China, and the history of schools sponsored by the community. Parishes celebrating anniversaries and persons developing podcasts or documentaries come to us for records and photographs. Still making history The Archives provides documentation of how the Church in the United States is indebted to the sisters who provided religious education to many generations of Catholics. But the stories being written...
Oral history: the adventures and challenges of Sister Dorothy Ellen Wolsiffer, SP
...Dorothy became a hospice volunteer for six years. She also received a second master’s degree in theology from Mundelein Seminary and then went on to serve two parishes in Illinois as a pastoral minister before returning to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 2012. The parish she served last was her favorite mission. In our combats, our labors and our tribulations, let us raise our eyes to Heaven, our true country. Saint Mother Theodore Guerin In response to Vatican II, Sister Dorothy said...
March 12, 2023: Third Sunday of Lent
...John. Parishes with the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) often choose to use these gospels yearly. Why is such the case? In today’s reading, the emphasis is on water that leads to eternal life; we may lose that theme in what becomes a convoluted and lengthy story. Those in the RCIA are nearing the day when they will be baptized and enter fully into Life in Christ. Jesus provides living water that quenches spiritual thirst once and for...