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Witness
...the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.” 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 persons? Surely just as we know that God loves us always and is never far from us, so are we...
Sister Mary (Mary Agatha) Carlton
...Officially Sister Mary was the volunteer coordinator and in that position interviewed volunteers and supervised their orientation. In addition, according to Sister Pat, Sister Mary assisted with the taking in and labeling of medications, restocking examination rooms, picking up supplies, cleaning the clinic and doing fund raisers. Sister Pat attributes their many returning clients to Sister Mary’s influence. Ever the gracious and generous woman, she did indeed ‘heal the oppressed,’” shared Sister Mary Roger. “Over the last five years, Sister...
Bringing beauty into the world – the late Sister Cecilia Clare Bocard
...published, this five-volume work was highly sought after by parishes. Sister Cecilia Clare’s talent can still be felt today in the Church of the Immaculate Conception where Sister Camille Neubauer ministers as the coordinator of liturgical music. Sister Camille studied with Sister Cecilia Clare for four years as a student at the college. When Sister Camille entered the Congregation after graduation she continued her study with this music maestro for five more years. Sister Camille remembers that Sister Cecilia Clare...
Caring for God’s gifts: the natural environment and faith
...country is getting worse, and that our leaders are not doing enough about it, I did not see the same level of concern reflected as an American Catholic. I have never heard a homily about ecology, although in various parishes I have heard dozens about abortion or the war.” Whatever the faith commitment we profess, we can take to heart the message of Pope John Paul’s statement in 2002: “We must encourage and support the ‘ecological conversion’ which in recent...
The charism of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...of the Sisters of Providence collaborates with local agencies and organizations to provide need-based services. The establishment of Providence Cristo Rey High School in Indianapolis writes yet another chapter in overcoming adversity to provide educational institutions in the traditions of Saint. Mary-of-the-Woods College, Guerin College Preparatory High School in River Grove, Ill and Woods Day Care/Pre-School at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The many Sisters who serve in parishes and diocesan offices enrich the wider church with their Providence perspective. While it would...
Sister Ann Bernard Sullivan
...New Albany, Ind. For one year following this, she served as the receptionist and manager of the main office at Cathedral High School, Indianapolis. From 1978 to 1987, Sister Ann Bernard served in a variety of roles in Indiana parishes at St. Charles Parish, Peru; St. John, Loogootee; St. Patrick Center, Indianapolis; and St. Susanna Parish, Plainfield. From 1987 to 1991, she ministered as the business manager at Woods Day Care/Pre-School, retiring in 1993. “Anyone who knew Sister Ann Bernard...
Sister Gertrude Therese Garvey
...Waukegan and Mundelein, Ill. Beginning in 1980, she ministered as pastoral associate for several parishes including Holy Angels Parish, Sturgis, Mich.; St. Malachy Parish, Brownsburg, Ind; and St. Joseph Parish, Lebanon, Ind. She returned to the Woods in 1997 and volunteered in a variety of capacities. “In the years when the book, “To God Through Music,” was being written, Sister Gertrude Therese was engaged in writing the lyrics for the songs under the watchful eye of Sister Mary Lourdes Mackey...
Sister Judy Birgen
...she ministered with Catholic Charities in parishes with food cooperatives and food pantries. And in August, she will travel to Uganda as a Fulbright scholar where she will teach at Uganda Martyrs University to help establish a social science program. In addition, she will carry out research focused on educational resilience among AIDS orphans who manage to stay in high school. Her determination to assist those in need also spurred her own education. Years ago, she was among people interviewed...
Sister Ann Margaret O’Hara
...one of the responsibilities we have as religious leaders is to keep the passion for religious life alive in ourselves and in our members. You can look at it from one perspective and say that if you take the United States alone, women religious in this country really shaped generations of people, of Catholics and others, in education and health care. I believe since the Second Vatican Council we have shaped the faith life of people in parishes,” she said....
Sister Ellen Marie Stafford
...St. Ann, Indianapolis; Sacred Heart, Terre Haute; and St. Jude, Fort Wayne. In Illinois she ministered at Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Francis Borgia and St. Sylvester, Chicago; St. Athanasius, Evanston; and St. Joseph and Costa Catholic, Galesburg. From 1975 to 1998 she was a parish visitor for several parishes in Galesburg — Corpus Christi, Immaculate Heart of Mary and St. Patrick. From 1998 to 2004 she provided service at the convent in Galesburg. “Finally, in 2004, Sister Ellen Marie...
Nearing the realization of a dream
...in fact, I have never leaned so heavily on Providence.” Sister Jeanne said recruitment of potential students has been the first major hurdle. Catholic schools in the Indianapolis area have welcomed the concept and have allowed Sister Jeanne and Sister Stacy Pierce, admissions director, to make presentations to prospective students and families. Many parishes have been welcoming as well. However, public schools have not been welcoming because they don’t want their students recruited away. Sister Jeanne’s concern is that a...
Mary, our companion: New Year’s 2013
...parishes, and gazed at our own nativity sets in our homes. Mary, as we have been taught since childhood, understands and loves us. In her lifelong fidelity to the God of Providence, she walked the path God traced for her and thereby became a woman who knew the fullness of God’s love and that love’s endless, flowing energy available to her, to us. We Sisters of Providence and our Providence Associates have a special fondness for the Mother of God...