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Miracle Place: a beacon for the neighborhood
...We will work on that as well as hosting fun community events where neighbors can gather to meet one another and enjoy relaxation.” The sisters are excited that opening the Community Center has stimulated landlords on their block to rehab several other properties as well. Now Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, then archbishop of Indianapolis, with Sisters Rita Ann and Barbara, blessed Miracle Place Community Center in May. “The house across the street, for example, has been renovated and a couple...
“You don’t give up on a person” Sister Rita Clare’s journey with a prisoner
...Rita Clare. “We can never get into anyone else’s skin to know why people do some of the horrible things that they do. We are called to visit those who are imprisoned as part of our faith.” David Paul Hammer, center, on the day he was received into the Catholic Church in 2000, with then-Archbishop Daniel Buechlien, left, and right, Mercy Sister Camille D’ Arienzo and Sister Rita Clare. At left, a Christmas card David designed to sell for at-risk...
Sister Ann Marie Boyce
...called SAM in public – only within family gatherings. She realized SAM was a term of endearment and graciously tolerated us.” Maureen also mentioned that Ann Marie “developed serious card playing skills as a child and learned to play poker on the front porch. I especially remember one instance when she walked into my mother’s house sometime in the 70s, wearing lay clothing but still wearing a short, modified veil. She immediately took off her veil headpiece, placed it on...
Sister Brigid Mary Hurley
...cupcake sandwich party in her honor and sent the picture to Tim and Ann Marie. She was well known for sending cards for all occasions at least two weeks ahead of time. Last week, she gave her brother Tim his birthday card. His birthday is today. Her brother Neil always hosted the annual Christmas Eve party. If a sister in the convent had no place to go, she would automatically become part of the Hurley family gathering. Sister Brigid endured...
Sister Marie Alexis Geiger
...Her mother baked wonderful Swiss cookies for the sisters, and Marie Alexis herself was a good cook and avid knitter. After teaching for 20 years, Sister Marie Alexis served as principal in Indianapolis for more than 30 years. She held several offices in the Principals’ Association, and at the request of Father Joseph Schaedel, established a Junior High School at Cardinal Ritter High School. In 1999, she returned to Terre Haute, where she was the director of Providence Educational Family...
Sister Edna Scheller
...being with them for special occasions and celebrations. Her niece Kathy recounted how much she and her cousin Jan in recent years enjoyed staying overnight at Providence Hall and playing cards with Edna and Noralee “way into the night.” Her brother Tom remembered: “When Edna arrived at a family gathering her face would light up and she would give everyone a ‘big ol’ hug. Everyone loved her voice – just to hear it! And you could always pick it out...
Sister Martha Ann Rifner
...couldn’t be seen and being young, we wondered what was wrong with them. So, we ran upstairs and watched them from the back bedroom window. What we discovered was that they looked just like us. Not sure if we were happy about that or disappointed.” Sister Martha Ann Rifner speaks to a general officer Besides swimming, bingo and card playing ranked right up there in special family memories of Martha Ann. The sisters at the Motherhouse also have memories, mostly...
Sister Joan Matthews (formerly Sister Ignatius)
“O God, I will sing a new song to you.” These words appear on Sister Joan’s memorial card and so fit who she was in this life and who she is now as she sings God’s praises forever, said Sister Mary Beth Klingel in her commentary for Sister Joan Matthews, formerly Sister Ignatius, who passed away on Monday, April 25, 2022, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She was 93 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 75 years....
Oral history: the adventures and challenges of Sister Dorothy Ellen Wolsiffer, SP
...grew older into a more confident, engaging individual. She described teaching as a challenge in the beginning, a profession she worked hard at to achieve proficiency. Her first mission was in New Hampshire, followed by Massachusetts. The requirement was to stay in the East for two years before returning home. One memorable summer in Boston was described as a “wonderful experience, especially the side trips like Cardinal Cushing’s home for a meal … We also went to Provincetown on a...
Ask a Sister: Spiritual help 5 cents
...grade vocations day, held at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, I had never attended a national gathering of Catholic college students of this size and duration. The sister is in Sister Marilyn Baker in her advice booth Along with displays and handouts we brought a new element for our Sisters of Providence booth. We had a cardboard replica of Lucy’s “Psychiatric Help 5 cents – The Doctor is IN” booth from the Peanuts cartoon. But our booth said...
Sister Maureen Abbott
...join in the meal preparation, especially the baking. Vegetables grown in her courtyard garden would be prepared. Flowers from the courtyard garden would brighten counter tops and tables. Maureen would have place cards on the dining table – each card demonstrating her self-taught skill in calligraphy. No doubt libations would be served; but in my research and interviews no one mentioned her preference. Sister Maureen Abbott, author of “New Lights from Old Truths: Living the Signs of the Times,” (right),...
Of motorcycles and trains and blessings at the Woods
...get out and give the motorcycle guy a card for the upcoming motorcycle blessing!” Well, figuring that it wasn’t a California freeway, it seemed safe enough. So, I jumped out and handed the rider the announcement of the “Motorcycle Blessing and Barbecue” set for Saturday, May 6 at 11:30 a.m. He smiled, thanked me for it and put it in his jacket pocket as I hurried back to the car, just as the arms of the crossing went up and...