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Sister Marie Kevin Tighe
...other that special charism and mission to which we were called. Community life has a transforming power if we are open to growth and change. Together we can become more. I am now of an age that I can say that I am a “50/50,” Pre-Second Vatican Council / Post-Second Vatican Council religious sister. Both halves have been rich and rewarding. Prior to the Second Vatican Council were my years of elementary and secondary education. Post Second — Vatican Council...
Sister Cathy White
Current ministry: Safe Environment Coordinator for the Diocese of San Bernardino Years in the Congregation: 21 years Sometimes it takes a call even though “the call” already has been received. Once Cathy White had decided to act on her desire to join a religious congregation, she did what a lot of prospective women religious would do. She visited four congregations to experience first-hand what might await her. Confidently, she decided on the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and sent...
Oral History: Sister Gloria Memering looks back on more than 60 years as a Sister of Providence
...music to be a tremendous way to relate to people, from kindergarteners through all ages of people in a parish. It has afforded her the experience of ministering to wonderful parishes and communities. She taught piano lessons as well, and at one of her schools the boys begged her to teach them guitar. So, she learned the guitar and taught them during noon hours at school. Pretty soon they were performing in church. She also taught religious education classes. When...
Still rooted in Christ’s love
...peasant dress of the time, not intended to set religious apart but to show that we were ordinary women in service to our neighbors. During ensuing centuries, the role of religious evolved, and wearing a habit became a symbol for the “apartness” of religious women. Most of us alive now grew up with — and accepted — that understanding. However, during intense discussions among us in the late 1960s (when almost everything was changing), this belief system was examined and...
Mother, grandmother and sister?
...1987, her son Rick had recently married and had a daughter. She said she felt called to religious life from an early age and had been “in ministry since my early teens in one way or another.” But when she met her husband, “I just forgot about the special call to community and went along with marriage, a career, moving to the United States, being a disciple, wife and mother.” After her husband died in 1977, she was devastated. Alone...
A reflection for Reception into the Novitiate
...into the novitiate, I would seek her advice about this jade plant that has grown wild under my car. Now just to be clear, Leslie and I had a very serious and engaging conversation about religious life and what draws her to life with us, BEFORE I tapped into her horticultural skills. General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski (from left) joined Sister Leslie Dao as she entered the novitiate on Sunday, August 14, 2022, along with Sister Norene Wu and Sister...
A brief history of the mission to the Chinese
...a novitiate for women wanting to enter religious life was opened. Sister Marie Gratia soon realized that for religious life to grow in this area that a native congregation had to be founded. Thus was the birth of the Providence Sister-Catechists. This congregation received papal approval in 1932. On Sept 12, 1932, the sisters opened Ching I (pronounced “Jing Eee”) Middle School with 87 girls. The sisters’ compound (as it was called) underwent a major building program for the school...
Sister Jean Michele Monaghan (formerly Sister John Michele)
Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.” Mk 12:43-44 “The widow’s mite. An odd choice, you might say, at a vesper service for a religious sister. In his ministry of teaching, Jesus made use of stories, parables, and homely examples from his...
At home in the Catholic Church with the SPs
...time. Last year when the Vatican announced their “crack down” on the Leadership Conference for Women Religious, an organization representing more than 80 percent of the women religious in the United States, my faith in the Catholic Church was shaken like never before. I was horrified at the perceived injustice. It seemed to me that women religious in the United States, a group of intentional, thinking, caring women who had dedicated their entire lives to the people of God, were...
Sister Dina Bato
...day and age. As Providence would have it, however, I was able to find and obtain a ministry with the Archdiocese of Indianapolis in the accounting office. Q. Why would a woman today find living as a woman religious to be an attractive lifestyle choice? I believe women would find living as a woman religious attractive because of the various opportunities for spiritual growth and the array of ways their gifts and talents could be used to serve the greater...
Congregation shares LCWR statement in response to Colorado shootings
Note: The Providence Community adds our voice and our prayer by sharing this statement from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). We recommit to healing the divisions among us that fuels gun and other forms of violence directed towards marginalized communities. LCWR grieves the shooting in Colorado Springs We, the members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), are committed to work toward a world where reverence for all living beings finds expression in an approach to life...
Vowed for love, mercy and justice
...in our systems is imperative in these times if we are going to have a life-giving future in this world. May it be so! Women religious use a collaborative model and seek possibilities that promote the common good. One role we and our partners need to take on even more so (and more publicly) is to be an alternative voice that promotes new ways of thinking and being in the world. We need models of collaboration and inclusivity rather than...