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Reinventing ourselves as Sisters of Providence
...the people of God who ask us to share our gifts and talents with them through our service in education, parishes, advocacy groups, and prayer with and for them.” From days as a postulant in the 1960s, when I first heard Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s famous quote, “This is the path traced by Providence and I follow it,” I have always experienced religious life as an adventuresome journey with the Christ, who continuously invites me to grow and reinvent myself...
Sisters honored at annual Bishop’s Dinner
...helps victims of abuse and abuse-related violence, their families and anyone affected by abuse from clergy, religious, staff and volunteers. “This award was for our entire office,” Sister Cathy said. “We are all just amazed.” Sister Cathy said six people work in the office and they serve 93 parishes and 32 schools within the diocese. “All of us try to make sure that the people of the diocese understand how important it is to prevent abuse and how important it...
Putting a face on the Foley Legacy Fund
...good this year. The Foley Legacy Fund supports all Sisters of Providence ministries. The following stories are just a few examples of how the Foley Legacy Fund has helped the sisters further their mission. Special Religious Development (SPRED) Ministry, Chicago Special needs church members and their mentors engage in special religious development activities. The SPRED ministry which Sister Susanne Gallagher, SP, helped to create and continues to minister with, works with 344 parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago to welcome...
Sister Suzanne Buthod (formerly Sister Mary Judith)
...me that she thought she was the first lay pastoral associate in the diocese, but she couldn’t prove it. Her ministry extended into diocesan offices. She did some work in the marriage tribunal. She shared responsibility for the SPRED program serving all of Evansville’s west side parishes and later she became assistant director of the program. This was her initial experience working with people with disabilities and it began a great love, appreciation, and concern for them. After nine years,...
A journey of Providence on Chicago’s westside
...but had times of fragile health. Fr. Riley had a stroke in 2000, and St. Angela was again without a pastor. Eventually a non-resident priest came to serve the parish. Since he was a dean and pastor of two other parishes, he was overextended. In order to fill in for Masses, arrangements were made for resident priests to come to our parish from Africa. More change In 1998, the parish decided to rent out the convent to an inner city...
Reflections for the Silver Jubilee of Sister Evelyn Ovalles
...of the people there. What happened to your seemingly straight path? A New Ministry I consider it God’s jubilee gift to you that within the last few weeks you have been offered and accepted a position as the pastoral associate at St. Katharine Drexel Parish of Chicago at the St. Ailbe Catholic Church Site, a predominantly African-American community on Chicago’s southeast side. Both Sisters Evelyn and Judy Birgen call this parish home. The parishes’ long name offers some clue as...
A Reflection for the 2025 Silver and Golden Jubilee
...parishes; Lisa became a master musician and liturgist, also serving various parishes and now here at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Jeanne and I made our way to administration – me in institutional communications and development; Jeanne in schools and colleges, as dean, president, principal and sometimes president and principal at the same time. Jeanne answered the call of the Congregation and helped found Providence Cristo Rey High School in Indianapolis; Janice responded to the call of the Congregation and ministered as SP...
The Philosophy of Fair Trade
...challenge facing the world” with poverty and economic justice following at 44 percent. However, with fair trade, everyone benefits. If you regularly shop at grocery stores, check out the produce aisles by looking for the fair trade label on items such as avocados, bananas, chocolate/cocoa, coffee, and tea. Fair trade is not limited to agricultural products. You should think about fair trade every time you shop. “Visibility of Fairtrade products has increased since 2021 for nearly all major product categories...
Witness
...the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.” A ‘Teachable’ Moment I believe Will LeCroy can teach us an essential truth: Who among us deserves to be labeled, judged, discarded even, according to the worst thing we ever did? Rather are we not called to honor human dignity and extend God’s loving design to all creation, to all...
Sister Margaret Heese (formerly Sister Margaret Bernard)
...told by some of her friends – stories known only to a few. Margaret talked Sister Barbara Bluntzer into getting her ears pierced. Sister Jean Fuqua felt honored that Margaret let her use the best sewing machine in the sewing room. Sisters Margaret Norris and Joseph Fillenwarth still can’t believe Margaret used the sewing machine to sew name labels on her clothes. As the youngest sister in a local community, band member Sister Joyce Brophy was given a pocket watch...
WVC adds ‘Real Organic Project’ certification
...protect the integrity of the organic label. Organic farming has always been based on “feed the soil, not the plant.” Young plants inside the greenhouse. Real organic farming relies on the microbial activity of the soil to slowly release nutrients to the plant. In recent years, many organic farmers have grown distraught over USDA decisions that have negated this fundamental truth, even though growing in soil is original to the USDA Organic standards. Further, rules have been overlooked regarding the...
Everything is Connected – Our Consumption
...plastic particles themselves and the chemicals used in their manufacture. What Needs to Change? We need to move beyond consume-and-throwaway systems toward circular approaches that work within ecological limits. This means reusing, recycling and sharing materials and products. Governments must do more to make companies accountable for the impacts of their activities and supply chains. They also need to help consumers make sustainable choices, for example, through targeted taxation and requirements for clearer labeling on goods. Households and firms should...