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Quietly breaking boundaries, creating hope
...education program to train nursing assistants, security workers and construction workers; or traveling through South America on her last dollar. Underlying commitment What holds these many life experiences together? It’s her commitment to education and an inner confidence in God’s love. It’s also faithfulness and the conviction that the hopeful Christian’s task is to devise ways to achieve God’s goals for our time and circumstances. “I ask myself daily how I can help us achieve God’s goals and then I...
Sister Brendan Harvey
...Aug. 15, 1939, and 1945, respectively. Sister Brendan earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s degree in special education from Cardinal Stritch College, Milwaukee. Sister Brendan began teaching in 1939 at St. Athanasius, Evanston, Ill. She also spent two years in Chicago at Our Lady of Mercy. Sister Brendan’s classrooms were also at Holy Redeemer, Berwyn, Md., and Annunziata, St. Louis. The majority of her primary-school teaching ministry was spent in Indiana at Sacred...
Sister Kathleen Bernadette Smith: Systemic racism leads to discriminatory practices and policies
...how manners, appearance, and friendship became almost inborn.”People were nice. People were kind then.” Her religious education and socialization formed Sister Kate’s leadership and contributions to society. What we know about Sister Kate makes us think she had to encounter policies of racism in her life. Sister Kate’s bachelor’s degree from Chicago State University took her into the field of education as a teacher; her Roosevelt University master’s degree in music propelled her into performing internationally. Then another master’s in...
Woods Day Care/Pre-School to close
...is 77 children. Woods Day Care has provided a nurturing, caring and safe environment for children whose parent(s) needed to work, while also offering parent education and involvement through newsletters, committees, conferences, fundraisers and more. In September 2004, Woods Day Care received accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), becoming one of only four centers in the valley to earn the honor. The national accreditation has been maintained ever since. “Woods Day Care would not...
A Woodsie reflects: Shannon Sonderman
...trying to make education for everyone a reality. My future profession is to be a teacher and I hope that I will be able to inspire my students to be the best that they can be. Mother Theodore worked with children to inspire them to be at their best through not only education and learning, but spirituality and faith. She once stated, “Show kindness to them (children) and be attentive to their spiritual and physical needs.” She was very passionate...
Sister Rosemary Rafter (formerly Sister Rose Claire)
...Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s degree in education from Indiana State University. By the time she earned her master’s in education, Rosemary had 17 years of a more practical kind of education under her belt: 17 years teaching in schools in Indiana, New Hampshire and Illinois. During those 17 years, she taught grades first and second, seventh and eighth. For six of those 17 years, Rosemary was both teacher and principal. Sister Rose Ann Eaton attested to Rosemary’s effectiveness...
Sister Frances Alma McManus
...of Notre Dame. She met the Sisters of Providence during high school at St. Agnes Academy in Indianapolis. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence right after graduation from St. Agnes on June 7, 1928. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Eventually, she would add to her resume a master’s degree in Latin from Indiana University and a master’s degree in educational secondary administration from Indiana State University. “She put this education to...
Sister Mary Patricia Peacock (formerly Sister Alice Elizabeth)
...vows in 1947 and 1952, respectively. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, a master’s in education from Marygrove College in Detroit and a master’s in pastoral theology from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. She lived as a Sister of Providence for 68 years and was known as a “community woman,” a woman of integrity who would always speak up for the rights of another person. Her degrees in education prepared her to be a teacher, which she...
Sister Frances Joan Baker
...and I have never looked back. I have loved everything about being a Sister of Providence. I have had a wonderful life!” Sister Frances Joan entered the congregation on Jan. 27, 1932, professed first vows Aug. 15, 1934 and perpetual vows Aug. 15, 1939. She earned her bachelor degree in education in 1957 from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and her master’s degree in education in 1966 from Indiana State University. Sister Frances Joan often spoke of her family: “I come from...
A beautiful time
...Sisters of Providence had landed in Arequipa, Peru. These first three adventurers were sent in response to a Papal call. In September 1960, Mother Rose Angela Horan (RIP) had learned that all United States religious congregations were asked by the Holy Father to take missions in Latin America beginning as soon as possible. The Vatican requested that by 1970 at least 10 percent of the U.S. religious personnel were to be engaged in this work. Despite running an already busy...
Is God calling you to be a Sister?
Religious life is a call from God spoken to women and men to live out the radical Gospel message of Jesus in today’s world. How is this call being answered today? Society tells me that young women struggle with commitment. However, in my work as Vocations Director for the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, I am in awe of the courage and tenacity of the young women I walk with. They are deep seekers through whom I experience...
Stepping forward to become a Sister of Providence
...life has been an opportunity for long-term coming and seeing, as well as tasting, seeing and hearing, what religious life is about as a young woman in the 21st century. It was an experience that welcomed me to jump into a new lifestyle with both feet. I left three decades of a California girl lifestyle. It was difficult, but through the grace of God, I was able to build new relationships. It’s hard to believe I’m claiming the Midwest as...