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The Le Fer sisters: Gifts to the Congregation
...Irma: “Sister St. Francis Xavier was born at Saint-Servan, Brittany, April 16, 1816; she died at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Jan. 31, 1856. Within a week after her arrival at Saint Mary’s she was teaching Latin and drawing at the boarding school and in the novitiate. She assisted Mother Theodore in the training of the postulants and novices, and at the first election held in the community [1848] she was chosen ‘Second Assistant and would have charge of the novices.’ This office...
St. Anne Shell Chapel
...that the ship would sink! In their fear the sisters prayed, asking Mary (the mother of Jesus) and St. Anne to protect them. When they arrived back home in Indiana safely, Mother Theodore directed that a chapel be built to honor St. Anne. The first chapel that they built was a small log structure, but in 1875 they built a more permanent stone structure that still stands today. Nearly all of the shells that decorate the walls and altar of...
‘She is Our Hero:’ Reflection for the 2024 Feast Day for Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
I know there are many Sisters of Providence celebrating this feast today who never dreamed that in their lifetimes and within a span of 16 years Mother Theodore would be: declared venerable, step one of the canonization process; then beatified, step two; and finally canonized as a saint. Now we know there were decades of working on her cause for sainthood after it was introduced in 1909, but those last three steps happened within 16 years. Striving for Holiness Saint...
Former Sisters of Providence a gift to the Church and society
...Providence. When her father became ill, she moved to New Hampshire and served there for 21 years as a therapist and psychiatric social worker in out-patient settings. Still connected Mary Jo Thomas-Day, formerly Sister Joan Catherine Mary Jo today at St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis where she ministers A lesson Mary Jo took with her is “the importance and the support of having a community. Our band of 1960 continues to support, pray and connect with each other.” Her connection...
Oral history: the adventures and challenges of Sister Dorothy Ellen Wolsiffer, SP
...of closeness to extended family, especially to this grandmother and to her mother’s family. In fifth grade, after her sister Rosemary graduated from high school, the future Sister Dorothy and her younger sister Rita stayed with her maternal uncle’s family while her mother worked and her father was still working out west. They attended St. Patrick’s school that year. Her father returned home soon after. Helen completed elementary school at St. Pat’s and then was on to St. John’s High...
2025 Reflection for Foundation Day
...Liguori fell against me with all her weight. I thought I was killed. … Four times we lighted the candle, but it could not be kept in place. Never did we laugh so heartily as that evening.“ General Councilor Sister Anne Therese Falkenstein (left) singing a hymn next to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Archivist Cassie Reddick. It is not precisely the same circumstance, but as I read this, I thought of the summer days when the staff at Providence Health Care...
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
...(S.C.O.P.E.). Sister Marie Perpetua, then president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, received the letter and urged the Congregation’s Leadership Team to let the College have permission to take part in the project and the team agreed. Sister Alma Louise and Sister Jean Mary were joined by four students from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and two from Indiana State University as they traveled to Georgia to assist. The program helped educate African Americans in addition to getting them registered to vote. More than...
The Roads of Saint Mary’s
Some visitors and residents driving through Saint Mary-of-the-Woods last fall were startled. They found familiar names of roads like Grotto Lane and Woods Way replaced by new names and new signs. Why the changes? A safer campus This renaming of roads was necessary in order for the Woods to be enrolled in the County Emergency System. In the past, when there was an emergency, a member of the security staff had to wait at the gate to direct the emergency...
Sister Cecilia Carter (formerly Sister Mary Cecilia)
...below. Sister Cecilia Carter (formerly Sister Mary Cecilia) Teacher for 41 years in schools in Indiana, Illinois, Maryland and California. In Indiana: St. John, Indianapolis (1958-59); Holy Family, Jasper (1959-60). In Illinois: St. Andrew, Chicago (1955-56); St. Mel-Holy Ghost, Chicago (1958). In Maryland: Ascension, Halethorpe (1956-58). In California: St. Elizabeth, Van Nuys (1960-64, 1977-82, 1986-91); St. Joseph, Hawthorne (1964-73); St. Ambrose, Hollywood (1973-74); St. Genevieve, Panorama City (1986-91); Our Lady of Lourdes, Tujunga (1982-86); St. Callistus/St. Columba, Garden Grove (1991-99)....
SP Annual Meeting 2018
Since the time of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, Sisters of Providence have returned home to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods every summer to pray, connect, learn and make decisions. Here are some photos from this summer’s annual meeting. Sister Suzanne Dailey during a prayer moment. Sister Mary Montgomery and My Huong Pham pose on the way to lunch. Enjoying lunch and good company, from left Sisters Mary Morley, Mary Jeanine Schubert, Elizabeth Koressel and Mary Catherine Duffy.ual meeting 2018 Signing the Providence Climate...
Sister Mary Loyola Bender
...child to all who looked forward to the deliverance of Jerusalem.” —– A reading from the Gospel of Luke (2:36-38) Those sisters who entered community in the mid-40s and on into the 60s, will well understand why I chose this reading for Sister Mary Loyola’s wake service, said Sister Ann Casper in her commentary for Sister Mary Loyola Bender, who died Tuesday, August 16, 2016, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 98 years old and had been a Sister of Providence...
Sister Mary Esther Larkin
...Park, Ill. In Illinois, she also ministered at St. Agnes, Chicago, and St. Mary, Aurora. In Indiana, her pedagogical ministry took her to St. Ignatius, Lafayette; St. John the Baptist, Whiting; St. Charles, Bloomington; St. John, Newburgh; St. Simon, Washington; Holy Trinity, New Albany; Holy Family, Jasper; St. Michael, Greenfield; and St. Simon and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Indianapolis. She ministered two years at the motherhouse in the greenhouse and as a nurses’ aide and receptionist. She returned to the...