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Journals and Letters week 28: Death of the bishop
[Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” page 252 to page 262 mid-page. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week in the coming year.] Bishop John Stephen Bazin It’s April 1848 and on the cusp of Holy Week when Saint Mother Theodore and a companion sister arrive at Vincennes for the beginning of Mother Theodore’s yearly house visits to all the missions. The first visit in Vincennes does not go as expected. The new...
“Journals and Letters” week 3: At sea in 1840
[Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters“: Page 10 to page 23 New York. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin‘s writings every week in the coming year.] In this week’s text we meet Mother Theodore the story teller, the teacher, the scientist, the philosopher, the woman full of faith and perseverance. We see Mother Theodore the comforter, the traveler, the patient. We see her courage, her faith, her intellect, her wit, her resilience. Beauty and...
Journals and Letters week 23: Clash of the bishop and the saint
[Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” page 209 to page 219 mid-page. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week in the coming year.] What a perfect time to highlight the strength and courage of Mother Theodore as March is Women’s History Month, this past week we celebrated International Women’s Day and we are presently celebrating Catholic Sisters Week. How fortunate was I to get this section of the reading? My head is spinning...
Journals and Letters week 30: No one will ever love you as your old Mother Theodore does
[Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” page 270 to the top of 280. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week in the coming year.] There are a few different themes to unpack in these ten pages. I’ll begin with Mother Theodore’s deep love for the women in her Congregation to whom she lovingly refers to as her “daughters.” Mothers and daughters We begin with another letter to Sister Basilide, SP, from Mother Theodore. Sister Denise...
Journals and Letters week 45: Sorrows and shadows
[Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” pages 397–402. This is located in “Part VI: Later Letters (1846–1856)” starting with “To Sister Basilide, Madison.” Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week.] If it weren’t for Sister Basilide, the daily flip calendar featuring quotations from Mother Theodore would be very slim. And we’d lose out on some of Mother Theodore’s observations delivered with wit and wisdom. In the two brief letters to her much loved and often...
Journals and Letters week 34: Loving the ‘Right Way’
(Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” page 307 to the top of page 317. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week in the coming year.) More about Sister Basilide this week! The Community history book says that Mother Theodore wrote more letters to her than to anyone else. I read that Sister Basilide was endowed with great generosity and intelligence and with an excellent “French physical constitution,” but “prudence and wisdom were not her gifts.”...
Celebrating American Education Week
...United States to begin the long journey from the east coast to Indiana, where they settled at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The Academy became the first school under the direction of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. It continues to this day as Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Many more schools were established under the direction of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin as the Sisters of Providence expanded their education ministries across the country. Recognizing all those Teachers This week is American Education Week. The week recognizes...
Participate with us in Campaign Nonviolence Week
Join the Sisters of Providence this week by participating in Pace e Bene’s Campaign Nonviolence Week. The Sisters of Providence invite all our partners in mission to join us in participating in Pace e Bene’s Campaign Nonviolence Week, Sept. 18-25, 2016. Campaign Nonviolence is a long-term movement for a culture of peace and nonviolence free from war, poverty, racism, environmental destruction and the epidemic of violence. As Sisters of Providence, we have experienced that praying and reflecting on our Litany...
Journals and Letters week 5: The measure of the woman
...you? Why not notice an object, a thing in your everyday life? Describe its measurable aspects and its feeling (for you) aspects. I’ll do it too, I promise. I choose our back porch at Corbe House. You? What stood out for you in this week’s reading? Please leave your comments so we can keep the discussion going. Next week > Nov. 14 week 6: page 39 to page 45 On the Ohio River View the complete book study series here....
Journals and Letters week 32: Death, taxes and inconsiderate ladies
(Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” page 290 bottom to 299 bottom. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week in the coming year.) I found it oddly comforting that in this week’s reading, Mother Theodore writes mostly about ordinary things you might find in any letter to a friend or loved one. In the very first letter, she complains about the high property taxes and gives updates on Sister Mary Therese’s deafness and the health...
Border Stories: Opening the Door to the Kingdom God Wants
...get involved again in the work to restore asylum now that they were back in Nogales. I shared about The Revolutionaries’ next meeting. And they were excited to attend and continue what they had started. This coming week in the Catholic Church, we celebrate National Migration Week. The theme is “Building the Future with Migrants and Refugees.” Pope Francis elaborates on this theme. “The Kingdom of God is to be built with (migrants), for without them it would not be...
Sister Judy Birgen: parenting SP style
...Bry’Chell, was not going to a safe situation. Being a sociology professor at Chicago State University, Sister Judy was on summer break. She offered to take Bry’Chell for what was going to be two weeks. “Two weeks turned into a month turned into 10 years,” Sister Judy laughs. At first, living with Sister Judy was a bit of a culture shock for Bry’Chell. “That was the roughest part, going to school with her. Because she is definitely a stickler when...