Search Results for label/religious education
Getting too many results? To search for an exact phrase, try putting multiple word phrases in quotation marks (such as "Saint Mother Theodore") to narrow your results.
Sister Mary Jo Piccione honored by Diocese
...This is the first year the award has been given and Sister Mary Jo was nominated by pastors, priests, doctors, nurses and volunteers. Described by John, a husband whose wife died in ICU, “Sister’s genuine display and example of God’s love, tenderness and compassion, touched my heart so deeply that I decided to volunteer at the hospital.” Sister Mary Jo provides pastoral care to the sick and dying irrespective of economic, education, social and religious standing. Summed up by Dr....
Sister Beth Wright
...a difference. It comes down to, for me, how am I going to use my passion, my life energy? How am I being called to use that? What’s attracting me? For me, it was religious life. It’s a very challenging time in the institutional church. But, where my passions are, I cannot imagine doing it on my own. Community is very important. I am challenged by the members of our Congregation and, in turn, I challenge members of our Congregation....
Sister Mary Mundy
...Sisters of Providence a lot. I’ve often said I really believe I’m here, not so much by my own choosing, but those sisters who prayed for me before I was ever born. They prayed for the next generation to consider religious life within this community just as I have prayed for the generation after me. Being on this campus, and coming to visit the campus, there was something about being welcomed, about being at home. I came to the Aspirancy...
Sister Jane Marie Osterholt
...with each other living out the traditions given to us by Mother Theodore . It’s also how we are with our publics. It’s a different type of spreading God’s word. It’s seeing it through a different lens. Q. Why would a woman today find religious life an attractive life choice? A. I believe that God continues to call women today, and, yes, it is a challenge, but it also is saying yes to that deepest part of God inviting you...
Sister Jessica Vitente professes first vows
...Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, California, in 2015. After visiting Saint Mary-of-the-Woods later during a Come and See Retreat, Sister Jessica knew she was on the correct path. And three years of discerning allowed her to realize becoming a woman religious with the Sisters of Providence was the additional fit for her identity. Now that she has professed first vows, she begins a new path toward profession of perpetual vows. “I feel a deeper and continued peaceful joy after proclaiming...
The legacy of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...legacy of trust in God’s loving Providence. This gift, or charism, was so strong in Mother Theodore that more than 160 years after she set foot on these grounds to establish this religious Congregation, women are still drawn to embody this legacy of Providence by giving themselves to God and to God’s people in works of love, mercy and justice. That is the rather intellectual approach to understanding our legacy from Mother Theodore. To get to the heart of the...
Sister Rita Clare Gerardot
...end of my junior year. I can truthfully say I had really never thought of being a sister. Her little invitation was, “I think you would make a good sister. Come around and see me sometime.” And so, I did. In my senior year, she continued to keep up this interest in me. It was really on her part. So, I gave it thought, and even though no one else in my family had considered religious life, or no one...
Sister Lisa Stallings
...Providence? A: I was taught by the Sisters of Providence in high school and in college, particularly at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. I was inspired by individuals whom I knew who were strong women and women devoted to prayer. I thought about religious life and I thought about the Sisters of Providence. I didn’t even really consider any other congregation. Q: What prompted you to think about religious life? A: That’s a mystery to me. It was a sense that I...
Sister Jacquelyn Hoffman
...be a deep loss. My decision to be a Sister of Providence didn’t surprise anyone, even though Dad’s youngest sister was a Franciscan Sister of the Sacred Heart. All my schooling was in schools staffed by the Sisters of Providence: St. Jude and St. John the Baptist grade schools, Central Catholic and Ladywood high schools and then St. Mary-of-the-Woods College. In closing, my thoughts turn to you, those who are discerning religious life. You have already felt the desire in...
Providence Family Services Volunteer Sister Dorothy Gartland receives Guerin Outreach Ministries Leadership and Advocacy Award
...education and justice do in her retirement? Well if it’s Sister Dorothy Gartland of Providence Family Services in Chicago, she does more of the same. Sister Dorothy, 81, a member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in Indiana, spent her younger years as a school teacher, a principal and a religious superior. She then went on to co-found the 8th Day Center for Justice in Chicago, where she dealt with issues from poverty and the nuclear arms race...
A reflection for the week
Sister Margaret Norris at prayer This information came from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) and will continue on a weekly basis. Although written for women religious, these reflections will be encouraging and thoughtful for all who are seeking God in these difficult times. The following is titled “If You Could Only See,” a reflection for the week. Please click on the above title to see the reflection....
Sister Teresa Ann Callahan
...two girls. She attended St. Angela Elementary School and Providence High School, both in Chicago. She entered the Congregation July 16, 1934, and professed first and perpetual vows Jan. 23, 1937, and 1943, respectively. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, a master’s degree in psychology from Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and another master’s degree in religious studies from Mundelein College, Chicago. Sister Teresa Ann commenced teaching in 1937 at St. Joan of Arc,...