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The call of Providence
...for others during the crazy years of medical school. Another graduate of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College said Saint Mother Theodore Guerin has always been “a whisper in her soul.” But the past few years the whisper has become a clanging. Now is the time to follow that calling. Several candidates came by invitation. Providence Associates with whom they attend church had invited them to explore the relationship. More than one said they came to the Providence Community feeling frustrated with the...
Justice on the margins: Providence Associate Maria Price
This mural by artist Mary Cobb hangs over the welcome desk at the men’s homeless shelter in Louisville, Kentucky, where Providence Associate Maria Price serves as executive director. Did you know that Providence Associate and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College alum Maria Price helps run a homeless shelter in Louisville, Kentucky? Currently, Maria serves as executive director of the St. John Center for Homeless Men. She began volunteering at the shelter in 1995 and joined the staff in 2006. “It is truly...
Mother Theodore, Providence Associate Kate Childs Graham: writers encouraging goodness
...at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College did she become familiar with Mother Theodore’s own words — “and then it was through song.” Kate, as part of the College’s chorale, “performed a song cycle inspired by Mother Theodore’s writings. … It was nearly 20 years ago but the tune of ‘I sleep but my heart watches’ still rings in my ears.” Seeing the present as it is Readers of “Mother Theodore Guerin Journals and Letters” cannot miss Mother Theodore’s remarkable skills of observation....
Sister Margaret Kern
...path took her to St. Vincent DePaul Elementary School, Bedford High School in Bedford, Indiana, and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, where in 1948 she earned a bachelor’s degree in finance before entering the Sisters of Providence on July 22, 1951. She professed first vows on Jan. 23, 1954, and final vows on Jan. 23, 1959. Although she would have preferred to focus her advanced education in the field of history, she again followed the path traced by Providence for her and...
Sister Loretta Picucci
...Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. “The only way to resolve the struggle was to try it. And I wouldn’t be happy unless I at least tried it, so I did, finally,” Sister Loretta said. She found that life as a sister allowed her to be her truest self. Sister Loretta spent 15 years teaching early elementary school children. She always requested to go to areas where the people were impoverished or underserved. She then spent eight years ministering...
Much to learn from two women religious founders
Editor’s note: Providence Associate Maria Price was recently awarded a Tower Award from Presentation Academy in Louisville, Kentucky. Presentation is Louisville’s original Catholic high school, founded in 1831 by Mother Catherine Spalding and the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. Maria, a 1987 graduate of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, serves as executive director at St. John Center, a homeless shelter in Louisville. She was recognized for being a woman leader in the area of service and advocacy. The reflection below is from...
Sister Barbara Doherty: A Sister of Providence icon living with dementia
Sister Barbara Doherty, right, enjoys lunch in Providence Hall dining room with, from left, Sister Rosemary Nudd and Maren Van Cleave, a 2016-17 White Violet Center intern. Sister Barbara Doherty. An author, a scholar, a theologian. A leader, a lecturer, a world-traveler. Women at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods-College (SMWC) from 1984 to 1998, when Sister Barbara was president, remember even more. They remember a president who really got to know them. More than one mentioned how she knew them by name the...
Sisters share memories of the ‘Greatest Spectacle in Racing’
This is a photograph of Sister Marianne Mader (back, right) with her family taken in the early 1990s at the Indianapolis 500 Museum. With Sister Marianne are her mother Frances Ley Mader, her nieces Jenny – who is a Providence Associate – and Abby, and (back, left) her now-deceased sister Jeanette. In 2015, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods celebrated their 175th anniversary as a Congregation. As the sisters advance into year 176, other organizations are celebrating milestones in...
Celebrating International Literacy Day
...who viewed low literacy rates as mainly a third-world problem. It was Africa, South Asia and South America that had problems. However, since the start of the UN literacy efforts, the agency has kept good records of its work and outcomes and or published statistics done by programs elsewhere worldwide. These have revealed some startling facts about literacy rates in the United States. In many instances, the United States has significant literacy deficiencies. According to one researcher, Steve Zaudere, fully...
Transformed and transferred: reflection for the transfer of vows of Sister My Huong Pham
...has suggested, the path traced by Providence. Sister Dawn offers the reflection at the transfer of vows ceremony. It seems that Providence was crossing her path even before she was given the opportunity to study at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in 1998. It is here that she first met us in person. But she came to know something of us and our charism through the Dominican Sister, Sister Rosa Dai, who encouraged My Huong to join the Dominican community in Viet...
A sister and doctor: Meet Sister Arrianne Whittaker
...The program introduces medical students to health care in under-served populations throughout Indiana and Illinois. After graduating from college, Sister Arrianne first came to the clinic to serve as a volunteer. At the time, the clinic was known as the St. Ann Medical and Dental Services Clinic and was a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of Providence. “It was an amazing experience, and indeed, quite a providential one, too,” Sister Arrianne said. “I was trying to figure out a backup...
Giving the gift of self: Sister Carol Meyers
...for the high school level. Sister Carol says that one of the most memorable moments of all her ministries was when “one of my youngest pupils asked me with great earnestness, ‘Are you Maria Montessori?’” Being Providence Sister Carol Meyers, in 2019, with Stephen Modde, a Providence Associate she companioned. Sister Carol holds a bachelor’s degree in education (Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College), a master’s degree in early childhood development (Indiana State University), and a master’s in adult education (Indiana University-Purdue University...