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Reflections from our Golden Jubilees
...a time of great growth, we have weathered the years of renewal, we have remained close to each other and we love the life of Providence and its call to be love, mercy and justice, wherever the journey may take us. • From Sister Carole Ann Fedders – I am, and will be eternally thankful for the Call I received: To promote/share God’s Providence with people, through services of love, mercy and justice, by way of this Congregation of vowed...
Providence Associates, Sisters of Providence: 10 years in relationship
...of a world in which love, mercy, and justice are the foundation for relationships, care of others, and decision-making for all people.” Yvonne Conniff (PA ’09) became an associate “to awaken my inner spirituality and deepen my relationship with God.” For Yvonne, the bond that unites Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates is that of “striving to live out a life which includes works of love, mercy, and justice in service among God’s people.” Sheila Galvin (PA ’13) has known...
Photos! Providence Associate retreat 2017
...of the breakout sessions. Sister Jody O’Neil visits with Providence Associates in her art studio at Saint Mary-of-Woods as one of the Saturday breakout sessions. Providence Associate and White Violet Center for Eco-Justice Intern Ezra Meadors shows the high tunnel to the group of Providence Associates and Sisters of Providence who chose to tour White Violet Center for Eco-Justice during the breakout session. Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates who chose to tour and learn about the White Violet Center...
Twenty-one Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...Development, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (1977-85), • Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Professor, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (1987-98), • Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Coordinator, White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (1998-2002), and • Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Assistant Director, White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (2002-10). Sister Jean has also ministered in Illinois. Sister Alice Ann Rhinesmith is a native of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Currently, she ministers in health care at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sister Alice Ann entered the Congregation on Feb. 2, 1955, from St. Joan of Arc, Indianapolis. She professed perpetual...
Struggling to speak out against injustice with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...her fellow human beings with compassion, saw clearly the results of an unjust structure, and yearned to end the suffering. She also saw clearly the social context which made this possible: “Louisianians are sensitive to being called out on the injustice of slavery.” Like Mother Theodore, we today struggle to find the ways to speak out against injustice in a society that’s sensitive to the topic. How can we see the world more clearly? How can we respond in compassion?...
Racial and Ecological Documentary: Inhabitants
March 5, 2025 at 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST Community Room, Providence Hall 1 Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 United States View Location Website Sisters of Providence Land Justice Future’s Focus Community Program Free, but able to donate at each screening. Join the Land Justice Futures (formally Nuns & Nones) Focus Communities* to view two special film screenings hosted exclusively for Land Justice Futures communities. Inhabitants is an incredible documentary that lifts up why ecological and racial healing are intimately...
Newsnotes from the Sisters of Providence winter 2022
...Eco-Justice Director Lorrie Heber will officially retire on March 1. Lorrie joined the Sisters of Providence in the spring of If you have had the pleasure of taking a tour or class from Lorrie, you’ll immediately feel her passion for eco-justice and teaching people about living more sustainably. Congratulations to Lorrie on her retirement. We know she will enjoy many more exciting adventures with her husband Tom. New Providence Associates From front left: Jennifer Christos, Michael Booth, Erin Gick, Kathleen...
Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, 2018 reflection
...me that a recent guide for voters, produced by 10 national Catholic social justice organizations, is named, “A Call to Holiness.” They, too, quote Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, which also says, “We cannot uphold an ideal of holiness that would ignore injustice.” At this moment in the history of this ever-expanding Providence community, perhaps this will be our sign of holiness — that we will NOT ignore injustice. Not just me or you but together: We will attend to the...
Welcome Providence Pax Terre!
The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, are happy to announce the birth of the newest member of our alpaca herd at the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. Providence Pax Terre was born on Tuesday, June 6, to Providence Ruth at approximately 1:30 p.m. This is the second cria (baby alpaca) for Ruth who is also the mother to Providence Bella, born in the fall of 2021. The name Pax Terre, which means peace and Earth in Latin, was...
Sister Marsha Speth
...So after graduation I decided I had to find out about religious life or I would not have peace in my heart. My early years in the Sisters of Providence were both exciting and difficult. I loved our classes and instructions in scripture, theology, liturgy, prayer, and psycho/ spiritual development. It was the 1960s and 70s, a time of “fresh air” in the church and of tumultuous change in society. When I entered the sisters were in full habit and...
Foundation Day and our French connection
...as laborers into the harvest; to sow peace…and love, mercy, justice; to be sharers of education and of care for the sick poor; to be witnesses to the power of God’s Providence. Today I would invite us to celebrate another piece of our story — the foundation on which our foundation is based. Today let us remember the faithfulness to the call of the Gospel by the Sisters of Providence of Ruillé-sur-Loir, France. It was their response to the Bishop...
New Providence Associates share their journey, part 2
...praying, kind souls, I have grown in many ways. I learned much about Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. About all the love and strength she and the other sisters endured coming to America to start this beautiful, peaceful home that is graced with so much love and prayers and joy and peace. I was blessed to attend Catholic schools for 12 years. A gift from God I cherished from first grade at St. Patrick’s through Paul C. Schulte High School. Now,...