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Ministering on Death Row
Sister Betty Donoghue has ministered with federal death row inmates for 10 years, but she is very familiar with the Terre Haute Federal Penitentiary, having ministered with other inmates housed there for 20 years prior to that. For 20 years, Sister Betty ministered with non-violent offenders in what is referred to as the “prison camp.” In this ministry, which included a handful of other Sisters of Providence, the sisters would meet with the inmates every Tuesday evening to offer a...
When I was in prison, you prayed with me
For many years, Sisters of Providence and friends and Associates have helped lead prayer services with inmates at the Federal Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. Sister Alice Ann Rhinesmith, SP Sister Alice Ann Rhinesmith, SP, has ministered with this group for the past five or six years. Sometimes the sisters have led communion services for the inmates. Other times they assisted with Mass when a priest was available to preside. One sister has even led a Bible study group. Sister...
Sister Suzanne Smith (formerly Sister Louis)
...She also ventured into prison ministry. When Sister Judy was a canonical novice, Suzanne lived in the formation house at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. When Judy found this out, she was flabbergasted. She said, “I had heard of sisters living with their teachers, but I wasn’t ready for it as soon as my canonical year! The day I moved in, I was readying my stuff to climb the stairs and she was at the top of the stairs. I looked up to...
Providence in a year of pandemic
...St. Mary’s Medical Center in Apple Valley, California, prays alone in the hospital chapel for all those in the hospital in great need. Sisters in formation and the new membership team show some love during a Zoom gathering. Providence Associate Rosaline Secrest joins protesters across from the Federal prison death chamber during a summer execution. Sister Margaret Norris volunteers feeding the hungry at the Food Pantry in West Terre Haute. Sisters of Providence in Taiwan gather to join their sisters...
Sister Adele Beacham (formerly Sister Joseph Therese)
...1998 at age 70 and continued as volunteer in Liturgy and Wellness ministries and as Minister of Care. Her justice outreach ministries included Providence Food Pantry, a member of a local Pax Christi group and ministry to women at the state prison in Rockville, where she visited for 18 years, long enough to see two of the women she visited finally released. She also served for years as tutor in English pronunciation for Dominican Sisters from Vietnam studying at SMWC....
Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...Hospice at Veterans Medical Center, Tomah (2008-10); Director of Holistic Health Services/Volunteer, VA Free Clinic for Uninsured, La Crosse and Tomah (2011-14). In California: Director of Retirement/Nurse Consultant, Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary Parish, Montebello (2000-04); RN Volunteer, VA Hospice and Visiting Nurse Hospice, Apple Valley (2010-11); Director of Holistic Health Services/Volunteer, Hospice visiting nurse, Apple Valley (2015-16); Volunteer, St. Mary Clinic and Hospital/Hospice visitor/prison chaplain, Apple Valley (2016-19); Volunteer, St. Mary Clinic and Hospital/Detention Center, Apple Valley...
Changing a life can be life changing
Sister Joann Quinkert outside the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind. For Sister Joann Quinkert, helping someone make a change is a life and death issue as she ministers to a Death Row inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. Sister Joann quickly tells you she is not the only Sister of Providence who ministers to inmates. And, she stresses, prison ministry and social justice have been staples in the Sisters of Providence mission early on. Sister...
Fathers speak out against death penalty
...a sofa and cried for a long period of time. “I felt like a tremendous burden had been lifted from my shoulders,” he said. “I never felt closer to God than I did at that time.” Paul has rekindled his spirit by working with Death Row inmates at Eddyville prison in Kentucky. “I found out that I needed them to help me, and they needed me to help them,” Stevens said. “People can change.” He has befriended many of them...
Sister Frances Joan Baker
...and served as Director of Clothing. She visited prisoners as a Pastoral Care Volunteer at the Terre Haute Federal Prison. She was the face and voice of hospitality in Owens Phone Room and Providence Center. She continued her gift of teaching at the SPs Educational/Family Services, tutoring children who otherwise not have been able to afford such help. She volunteered to monitor the bluebird nesting houses. She nurtured African Violets and made crosses to give to visitors. Her most cherished...
Sister Editha Ben
...next day to take her to a camp for political prisoners. They never came to take her to prison, but she was blacklisted, and her activities were monitored. “I think that’s one reason the sisters sent me back to school,” Sister Editha said with a laugh. She then went to complete her master’s degree in religious studies. Sister Editha wasn’t persuaded to stop working for justice and the good of her country, however. In the 1980s, she joined with hundreds...
Holy Week reflections with Saint Mother Theodore
...nations, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.” – Isaiah 42:6-7 “We cannot do our work if we all stay in the nest.” – Saint Mother Theodore Guerin • How does God call me to shine, to be a light to the world? • What does this call ask of me? Tuesday, April 11 “Though I thought I had toiled in vain, and for nothing, uselessly,...
Sisters of Providence provide hope and healing in a broken world
...prisoners and condemning convicted felons to death. The Sisters of Providence were instrumental in organizing vigils on the nights of the executions in the Federal prison in Terre Haute. I attended one of these vigils. I felt a part of a wider community that takes seriously Catholic social teaching with its strong emphasis on the dignity of all life. Working for social justice on my own often does feel overwhelming. The Sisters of Providence have been very supportive and made...