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‘Nuns of the Battlefield’
First published in 1927, “Nuns of the Battlefield” was written by Ellen Ryan Jolly. In this book, the author gives a description of the women religious congregations that provided medical aid during the Civil War. Many of these religious congregations actually provided nursing skills on the battlefield while others, like the Sisters of Providence, provided medical assistance in military hospitals and prisons. Below are a couple of entries in the chapter about the Sisters of Providence: First entry “Of course,...
New Log Cabin Chapel at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to be dedicated and blessed on Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s feast day, Oct. 3
...high point in my life,” Ruble said. “Since my lovely wife, Susie, went to school there, I have always had a love for the beautiful campus and the Sisters of Providence. I very much enjoyed working with Max Miller and all the fine men from the Federal Prison Camp. It has been a great joy for all of us to build this little log structure that represents where it all started at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. My hope is that this little...
Sister Ann Denise Reger
...could no longer make them nimble. In July 1998 Sister Ann Denise returned to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in her 80th year. She still had lots of energy. She became involved in many different activities: tutoring, working in the Business Office, liturgy, prison ministry, phone room guard, visitors rooms, foot massage. In her retirement years she went to almost every musical program offered at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and other musical performances in Terre Haute. Sister often had music playing in her room...
Sister Mary Patricia Peacock (formerly Sister Alice Elizabeth)
...and Sister Florence Norton play with a baby as they pass out food at Providence Food Pantry in West Terre Haute in 2012. When Mary Pat returned to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1998, she continued living life in abundance for another 15 years. Her volunteer outreach ministries were many and varied: working at Providence Food Pantry and at the Wabash Valley Health Center (St. Ann’s Clinic); tutoring at Educational Family Services and praying with inmates at the federal prison. She also...
Sister Patty Wallace walks in the footsteps of her elder sisters
...challenged me to continue to give the best of myself in ministry, prayer, and living the vows in our community. I carry their love of children with me in my ministry driving my Itty Bitty Bookmobile to read stories to preschoolers in inner city Indianapolis. I carry their compassionate touch to the Providence Associate I visit at the Indiana Women’s Prison. I carry their love of the poor to the food pantry where I witness the poor helping each other....
Sister Kathleen Desautels: Collaborating for justice
...murders, massacres and disappearances of citizens. Sister Kathleen chose to cross a line governmental officials had set limiting demonstrators. She was convicted of federal trespassing and served a six-month sentence at the Federal Prison Camp in Greenville, Ill. Sister Kathleen hopes her act of civil disobedience made others aware of the need for change. Sister Kathleen said 8th Day Center, which has never had a director, is “modeled after what we would like the world to look like,” a community...
A legacy of hospitality
...things at my bedroom door: a poem I might enjoy, a fresh-baked muffin, a cup of homemade soup, a book to read. They ask about my day. Who would ask me that if I were staying at a local motel? After visiting, I love to walk the grounds. I feel such peace and a sense of calm. I delight in the space! This means so much, especially after being at the prison, going through the wearying processes to follow all...
Baptism by horseback
Sister Marceline Mattingly on her baptism day, Jan. 6, 1916. One never knows what lunch conversation in Providence dining room will bring! Since I first started dining with Sisters of Providence in 2012, I have experienced lunch conversations that range from the weather to the prison industrial complex to “When I was a novice…” and beyond. This week, I was enthralled by a baptism story unlike any I had ever heard, and just in time for the retelling of Jesus’...
“High spirits and mischief”: a story of sledding
...game. “Now for my enforced ride, I’ll help you wash the dishes,” she declared. Protest was unavailing. The duty finished, she marshalled the culprits into the Sisters, recreation room. “Prisoners of war” she explained, “what we do with them?” One said, “Give them two turns at the dishes,” another, “Send them to bed,” but dear Sister Maurice said, “Make them take me for a ride!” Agreed. [Sister Maurice weighed about two hundred and fifty pounds.] Thus they paid their fine...
Sister Kathleen on the pages of Rolling Stone magazine
Sister Kathleen Desautels is known for many things. She has been arrested many times for “acts of non-violent civil disobedience,” including being charged for trespassing on federal property at Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia as part of a peaceful protest aimed at calling attention to perceived civil rights abuses by the U.S. government. She served six months in a state prison for that action. She was also featured in the 2012 documentary, “Band of Sisters.” Sister Kathleen Desautels ministers in social...
Promoting justice through ‘Corporate Responsibility’
...that discourage collective bargaining among employees, • Corporations that benefit from for-profit prisons, mass incarceration, capital punishment or immigration detention centers, • Corporations whose practices are known to be detrimental to the environment, • Corporations that use sweatshop labor or otherwise abuse employees in the production of goods and services, and • Corporations that engage in predatory lending practices. Positive Screens: • Corporations that engage in the development and implementation of green technologies, • Corporations that engage in initiatives that...
Hospitality remains a strong charism of the SPs
...closed! Instead, they’ve been open to hundreds, if not thousands, of people. The sisters living in Owens have OPENED the doors at all times to: sisters coming home from the missions, guests visiting the Woods, sisters’ family members, retreatants, workshop participants, women and children visiting a family member at the federal prison, White Violet Center interns, Providence Associates, pilgrims to the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore. Each visitor experienced a comfortable, quiet bedroom, decent meals, and perhaps, most importantly, a...