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Journals and Letters week 25: Making fair progress
...have been with a very heavy heart that Mother Theodore wrote a letter to the sisters away from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods bearing the news of the death of Sister Mary Liguori. Your turn We are reflecting on the portion of Journals and Letters as we begin Holy Week. Do we see any connection(s) between the events related in the Journals and Letters and those of Holy Week? Next week > page 236 to page 244 View the complete reading series....
Journals and Letters week 49: The death of an angel
(Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” page 422 to page 429 mid-page starting with Death of Sister St. Francis. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week.) This week’s post happens to fall on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, a tragic day in our country. How painful it is to lose someone from your life. Whether it is death or some other type of separation, when someone you are close to departs it is...
Cultivating Hope Weekend or Day Retreat
...concludes at 10:30 a.m., on Sunday, October 20. Attendance at Mass and Sunday lunch is optional. The day retreat on Saturday will start at 8:30 a.m. and end around 8 p.m. There are three packages, including: Weekend Package 1: Two nights lodging plus five meals and programming ($300), Weekend Package 2: Commuter for the whole weekend with five meals and programming ($180), and Day Package 3: Saturday only with two meals and programming ($150). The registration deadline is October 13....
Today is Monday in case you were wondering.
In normal times there is hardly a day that goes by where most people don’t at least once refer to their calendar. At the very minimum you usually know what day of the week it is. Of course these are not normal times. The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the way we view time and sometimes it’s hard to tell one day from the next. There are a few notable holidays that deserve to be remembered during this upcoming week....
Journals and Letters week 35: Letter of instruction, letter of prayer
(Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” pages 317 to 322. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week in the coming year.) Our journey with Mother Theodore this week covers the period from July 4 through Sept. 8, 1851, as reflected in two Letters Circular and one letter to Bishop Bouvier. We are not short-changed, however, by the limited period of time and written material for our conversation and reflection this week. There is much to...
Meet a sister. Be inspired. National Catholic Sisters Week invite
The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are gearing up to celebrate National Catholic Sisters Week March 8-14, and you are invited to join us! National Catholic Sisters Week was first celebrated in 2014 in conjunction with women’s history month and is now celebrated every March 8-14. It is an opportunity to highlight and share with others about what life as a woman religious is all about. We invite you to take the opportunity to learn more about women religious...
Journals and Letters week 39: The loving guidance of a mother
(Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” pages 346, bottom, to 356, mid-page. This is located in “Part VI: Later Letters (1846–1856)” starting with “Spiritual Counsels.” Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week.) Our reading this week offers us the opportunity to situate some of Mother Theodore’s notable quotes in the context of the events in which she was living. Both editions (1999 and 2015) of the “Calendar of Daily Quotations” from Mother Theodore’s writings are...
Former student rescues sister from Florida accident; saves her life
...Sister Margaret Louise’s side for 10 days, a critical period for her recovery. Recovery begins Sister Margaret Louise was in Blake Medical Center for three weeks, at an interim hospital for another 3 weeks, then Blake’s intensive rehabilitation area for another three weeks. She has endured aggressive rehabilitation with physical therapy, occupational therapy and throat therapy. Sister Ann Paula said Sister Margaret Louise continues using a feeding tube. This is the car in which the sisters were traveling. Andrew had...
Journals and Letters week 33: Reasons Mother Theodore may have felt overwhelmed and crabby
(Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” pages 299 to 307. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week in the coming year.) Image by John Ayers from Pixabay I’m probably projecting my own mood on how Mother Theodore felt during the weeks between Aug. 18, 1850, and Jan. 6, 1851. Today and for the last few days, I’ve felt overwhelmed by what I had to get done and crabby that other issues, other peoples’ needs, kept...
The Sisters of Providence go to St. Patrick School
Sister Mary Montgomery explains the meaning behind a cross to students at St. Patrick School. “Today was fun.” That was how Sister Mary Montgomery expressed a recent trip to St. Patrick School. Sister Mary, along with Sisters Paula Damiano, Mary Ryan, Barbara Battista and Janice Smith, all traveled east through Terre Haute to St. Patrick School on Monday, Feb. 1, to discuss vocations with the school’s female students. The visit coincided with National Catholic Schools Week. The five sisters agreed...
Sister Joni Luna: What does it mean to you to be a Catholic Sister today?
Note: Here is the second blog in our series celebrating Catholic Sisters Week, which concludes on March 14, 2020. During the week, many sisters will share here on our blog what being a sister means to them. Sister Joni Luna has written the second of such blog posts below. The other day, I wrote the following prayer in my journal using a picture I had created in Sister Rosemary Schmalz’ Art and Spirituality Retreat: Sit with me ….. It is...
Sister Donna Marie Fu
...gave Donna preparation week by week so she could get through the first month of school. But Donna’s sense of obedience and resilience, coupled with her uncanny ability to love people truly had her crying again when at the end of her first semester, she was told to come home to study. “I said, ‘No, let me finish this year. I just love this class.” The response came in one word: “Obedience.” She came home to study at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods...