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Warning, this album may contain photos of sunbathing nuns
...Meyers. Sister Jean Fuqua mowing the lawn at St. Joseph’s Lake several years ago. The final shovel-fulls of dirt are removed allowing the water to move into the newly expanded area of the lake in 1981. Sister Bernice Kuper relaxes with a book in a hammock at St. Joseph’s Lake years ago. Sister Jean Fuqua’s typed note from the St. Joseph Lake scrapbook regarding the infirmary picnic in 1982. Trucking the sisters in for the 1981 infirmary picnic at St....
On policing and Providence
Sister Pat Mahoney outside the District 22 police station in Chicago where she volunteers. From the way Sister Pat Mahoney greets the receptionist and walks right through the gate labeled “POLICE USE ONLY,” it is apparent that she feels right at home. Still, Sister Pat laughs, she never guessed she would volunteer at a police station. “But I never thought I’d leave teaching or stop wearing the habit when I entered religious life, either.” Sister Pat, a volunteer with the...
Imperfect mercy
...of our brother Jesus? How could I relate to a message that seemed to have no room for mistakes, for missed opportunities to show mercy? Sister Tracey listens during table sharing at a recent gathering at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. As I sat with these questions during the Giving Voice 20’s/30’s retreat for young women religious, my mind wandered over some parables and stories from Jesus’ life. It landed on the Wedding at Cana and Mary’s suggestion that her son might help...
Celebrating Sister Joni as she professes first vows on June 26
...has a reason why she or he can’t do it right now. Jesus doesn’t say to them, “if you have something to do first, then forget it.” He reminds them of the cost of following the Way – accepting a lack of security, buying into the priority of proclaiming and living the good news of Jesus the Christ, facing the fact that what we promise today will require strength beyond our own. Then Jesus leaves the decision in their hands....
Quotations from reflections given at General Chapter 2016
...we begin to put aside all the divisions in our hearts and our words? Our labels: Conservative-Liberal; Democrat-Republican; Gay-Straight; Christian-Muslim; Rich-Poor. What if instead we see from that new lens: the lens of the Gospel values demanded right now. Not the least of which are Love—Justice—Mercy.” —Sister Ann Sullivan “We will wash one another’s feet. We will probably need to perform this cleansing of one another more than once. Yet we have promised one another we will.” —Sister Denise Wilkinson...
Sister Agnes Clare Buckley
...her first and perpetual profession of vows, in 1958 and 1963, respectively. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in 1960, one of the first groups of junior sisters to complete their degree before being sent on mission. Sister Agnes Clare Buckley Teacher for 42 years in schools in Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts In Illinois: Our Lady of Sorrows, Chicago (1960-61); St. Agnes, Chicago (1961-63). In Massachusetts: Sacred Heart Malden (1965-71); St. Rose, Chelsea...
Where Your Treasure Is
Sister Tracey listens as Elmer Pena, the husband of Sonia Avile, speaks. The last time I saw Sonia, she joined us in the upper room at Christ Church Cathedral downtown in Indianapolis on March 6. That day, 19 Faith in Indiana leaders prepared to risk arrest in a non-violent direct action mourning the inability of our Congress to create a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers and all 11 million immigrants who live, work, pay taxes and worship in our country....
Conscience, Candidates and Discipleship in Voting – Part two
...faces and corrodes each one in turn. The culture of exclusion has unleashed a poison of animosity against immigrants that paralyzes our politics so deeply that we cannot even find a pathway to protect young men and women who came to this nation as children and now thirst to be citizens of the only land they have ever known. The deadly imprint of racist structures and legacies on our criminal justice system magnifies fears and resentments among African American and...
Witness
...for the federal government. Sister Barbara Battista during a visit with Keith Dwayne Nelson. The Bishops of Indiana, along with numerous other Bishops, have spoken out against the death penalty. So have religious communities across the country, including my own, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. My faith and the teachings of our Church compel me to say “No!” to the death penalty and to work to abolish it. In 2017, Pope Francis, approved the following revision to...
Saint Mother Theodore’s Legacy Lives: Giving Day 2022
...Indianapolis, which brings hope to young women and men, all of whom demonstrate economic need, and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Sisters are also teachers at schools and universities across the U.S. Outreach to the poor – Providence Food Pantry and The Connecting Link in West Terre Haute provide food and access to services for our closest neighbors in need. Physical, emotional and spiritual healing – We sponsor Providence Health Care, Inc. at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. In Taiwan, Miracle Home provides eldercare, meals...
‘Journals and Letters’ of Saint Mother Theodore gets digital treatment
...women religious in the United States, Catholic spirituality, Indiana history and more. Sisters of Providence who work in archives also helped with various photos offered in the e-book. The book was edited by Sister Mary Theodosia Mug, a native Hoosier, whose own story is fascinating. Born in Attica, Sister Mary Theodosia attended Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, where she graduated in 1877. She entered the Congregation and became a teacher and writer. She published a biography of Mother Theodore Guerin in 1904....
Lisa Stallings
Sister Lisa Stallings was born on December 26, 1952. She is a native of Evansville, Indiana. Sister Lisa entered the Congregation on August 23, 1975. She graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in English, and earned a master’s degree in English from Indiana University. She also has a master’s degree in music (sacred music and liturgy) from St. Joseph College in Rensselaer, Indiana, and a master’s degree in theological studies from St. Meinrad School of Theology. She...