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Mary, Mother of the Church
...Church, to the universal calendar. This feast is the Monday after Pentecost. Just as Mary gave birth physically to the body of Jesus, she gives birth spiritually to His Mystical Body on earth, the Church. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church No. 843, the “Church” is the holy people of God. Mary is indeed a mother to this body. As our mother, Mary is a model and inspiration for all followers of Jesus. He acclaimed her not only...
Mary Ann Valentino, Chicago, IL: “Many fond memories”
...I visited. Sister Agnes Rose said they would put them on the trays of the nuns in the infirmary. She was my teacher at St. Mel’s in fourth grade and taught my son in sixth grade previous to going to St. Mary-of-the-Woods. Reverend Mother Mary Pius November 1963 (St. Genevieve School) * also served at St. Mary of The Woods as principal. Mother Mary Pius was superior and loved by all of us. We used to call her “The Little...
Sister Mary Xavier Lerée : a founding Sister of Providence
The first academy at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods from Sister Maurice Schnell’s sketch book. Sister Mary Xavier was the last of the foundresses to die, after 57 years of quiet, mostly hidden service. She was childhood friends with Sister Liguori. Both came from Fougeres, France and were inspired to religious life by their parish priest. Both entered the novitiate at the same time. Sister Mary Xavier was an extremely talented seamstress. She was dedicated to saving the Congregation money through her frugal...
The Sisters of Providence go to St. Patrick School
Sister Mary Montgomery explains the meaning behind a cross to students at St. Patrick School. “Today was fun.” That was how Sister Mary Montgomery expressed a recent trip to St. Patrick School. Sister Mary, along with Sisters Paula Damiano, Mary Ryan, Barbara Battista and Janice Smith, all traveled east through Terre Haute to St. Patrick School on Monday, Feb. 1, to discuss vocations with the school’s female students. The visit coincided with National Catholic Schools Week. The five sisters agreed...
All Saints Day
...stay as far away from that kind of suffering (make that any kind of suffering) as possible! But I didn’t scrap my belief in and admiration of saints. I just came to the slow realization (over years really) that most saints are usually ordinary folks like you and me. Yes, some saints are the “official” ones, declared so by the church, like our foundress, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. Most saints are usually ordinary folks like you and me Most saints,...
Authors to sign books during shrine opening
...Old Truths: Living the Signs of the Times,” the fourth history volume of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, will also be signing copies of her book. Doyle’s book recently placed fourth in a contest conducted by the Catholic Press Association. A total of 12 books were nominated in the Children’s Book category of the Catholic Book Awards. Doyle, a graduate of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, has written other religious books, including writing the foreword and afterword of “The...
L’association Providence-Armor
...footprints leave something of “us” after we leave? This home certainly felt imprinted with a peaceful presence. Many people comment on how they feel a certain something when they walk on the grounds of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. I have felt it myself. That same feeling of peace is present at Saint Mother Theodore’s childhood home. In the summer of 1901, the Sisters of Providence of Ruille-sur-Loir in France and the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, formed the L’association Providence-Armor....
Crossing the bridge into community: Postulant Stephanie Rivas
...signed in as the newest woman to enter the Sisters of Providence Congregation. It was Stephanie’s need for a quiet, prayerful community that spans generations and breaks boundaries that eventually led her to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The bridge over the ravine is gone and Foley Hall has long been demolished, but young women are still choosing vowed lives of service and prayer in a committed community — still crossing the bridge. Originally published in the Winter 2024 issue of HOPE magazine....
Sister Agnes Joan Li
...Marywood, Anaheim, Calif.; Our Lady of Providence High School, Clarksville, Ind.; Washington Catholic High School, Washington, Ind.; and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. From 1972 to 1980, Sister Agnes Joan returned to Taiwan to Providence College, Taichung, where she taught calculus and was head of the math department and a councilor. After a year-long mission furlough at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, she returned to Providence University, now in Shalu, and served in a variety of capacities until 1991. She returned to the Woods in...
Welcoming our 2021 WVC Summer Interns!
...the Earth.” Madeleine Beck Madeleine Beck Madeleine joined us in August of 2020 for a one year internship Madeleine, from White Plains, N.Y., has a bachelor’s degree in astrophysics from Wellesley College. She will complete a year internship at WVC in August. “As I start to think about where I’m headed next, I’m reminded of how much things have changed since I first arrived here at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods last August – the things I’ve learned, the friends I’ve made, the...
My journey with Providence
The Avenue at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods I remember the day vividly. It was mid-August, 2014. My husband and I had just dropped off our son on the campus of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, for freshman orientation week. Afterward, my husband continued his drive home. I, on the other hand, continued my drive to nearby Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. It was my first time to visit and stay at the Woods. When I turned right into Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, I understood what...
How to become a saint – Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s Feast Day 2009
...Sounds like Saint Mother Theodore’s response to the sister who asked what she needed to do to die like a saint. We know Mother Theodore’s answer: it was very terse. If we wish to die as saints we must live like saints. Pretty direct and straightforward. We heard another response in what was read before the entrance procession: What must we do to become saints? Nothing extraordinary, only that which we do everyday — only do it for his love....