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All things possible with Sister Janice Smith
...crazy. Maybe I can do another ministry at the parish,” she said. She put off registering for another religious education conference to see what would happen with Y2K mania. After the new year, she called and found an opening in the seminar scheduled for the next week. “I thought, ‘This is it. All roads are leading to Rome now,’” she said. A different sprout from the stem of the plant offered yet another twist. “I have this thing about Ireland....
Two sisters profess first, perpetual vows
...will enter the community in the fall. “We’re very blessed to have new members,” Sister Jenny said. “Our sisters are our greatest resources.” “We are focused on women entering our community,” Sister Janice added. “It’s a community event. About the Sisters of Providence The Sisters of Providence, a congregation of 214 women religious, with 300 Providence Associates, collaborate with others to create a more just and hope-filled world through prayer, education, service and advocacy. The Sisters of Providence have their...
Ask Sister Dina: Why is the general superior no longer called “Mother”?
Dear Sister Dina, I’m just curious as to how the Superior General, formerly addressed as “Mother,” changed from “Mother” to General Superior and why? – From Judy Copeland, via the Sisters of Providence website Dear Judy, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, foundress of the Sisters of Providence Thank you for your question. As you may know, the superior general or general superior is the leader of a religious order. Such titles first emerged in the 13th century as religious orders of...
Sister Marilú Covani
...a medical doctor. After living and working in Salta, Argentina, for five years, they moved to the U.S. in 1967 and lived in New York and Michigan while they continued their studies and work. They became parents to beloved son, Ricky. Ricky was only 9 years old when his father died and Marilú raised him to adulthood. She had thought about a religious vocation when she was young and before she got married but her life took another path. After...
Stand up for LIFE: Be Complicit No More
...The Apache call this place Chi’chil Bildagoteel. Ceremonies, religious rituals, and communication with Creator/Yashua/God have taken place here for thousands – or more – years. Particular religious ceremonies focused on honoring life, all life, happen only here. On no other place on Earth can these ceremonies take place. It is here or nowhere. To be Indigenous or Native is to live in rhythm with Mother Earth and thus to all life. To belong to a place and profess all as...
Recognizing the Feast Day of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
...age when she attended a school conducted by the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Five years later, she graduated with honors and a teaching certificate. After the death of her parents in 1876, she applied for entrance into a religious community, but was denied entry because of poor health. She then started an orphanage – called the House of Providence. She found helpers among a small group of women who were attracted by a religious lifestyle. Frances took...
Reflections for Profession of Vows
...no doubts that this is the right time to request full integration into the Sisters of Providence.” In your reflection on the growth you have experienced during this time of initial transformation in the Congregation, you wrote “I continued to feel drawn to the vows and desired to have the rest of my life shaped by them.” What a powerful way to talk about the role of the vows in the life of a religious – perhaps in the life...
Reflecting on Leadership
...I reflected on the unique opportunity religious life has offered women to develop, hone and to use their leadership skills. Women in religious communities, like our own Mother Theodore Guerin in 1840, were entrepreneurs, breaking new ground in society. Passionate about education for women and girls, she led a community that provided new opportunities for women to claim their rightful place in church and in society. Women like Mother Theodore did this at great cost to themselves and to their...
Sister Cathy Campbell reflects on Jubilee
...After that, I returned to journalism editing a Catholic newspaper and producing television programs. Then, Providence invited me through friends I met in those ministries to become a communications specialist for an international community of religious men. After that, I found myself in educational administration at the high school where I started and many more chapters beyond that right up to the present as I minister as an archdiocesan consultant in Indianapolis. “What I have discovered is that saying, ‘Yes!’...
Explore religious life with the Sisters of Providence
Explore if you might be called to religious life as a Sister of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Attend their upcoming Come and See spring weekend retreat. The Sisters of Providence invite all single, Catholic women ages 18-42 to this free opportunity, which begins at 4 p.m., Friday, April 14, and concludes at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 16. Food and housing will be provided. Are you being called to live mercy and give hope? Then join the Sisters of Providence...
Restlessness led to liberation as a woman religious
Sister Sue Paweski and three of her students in 2015. I don’t have a job, I have a ministry! I am a fine arts teacher in a Catholic school. How is being a religious sister different from my teaching days before I joined the Sisters of Providence? My love of teaching has always been a constant in my life. Yet, as a woman religious, it’s my privilege to be available to others to share in their joys and in their...
Sister Agnes Eugene Cordak
...that she decided to enter religious life. She did so in September of 1941, pronounced her first vows on August 15, 1944, and made her perpetual profession of vows on January 23, 1950. She received the religious name of Sister Agnes Eugene (Eugene after her brother and Agnes because she “just liked the name”). She earned a bachelor’s degree in education at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master of science degree in education from Indiana State University, adding a second...