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‘In the Footsteps of a Saint’
This photo, taken in the 1950s, depicts many Sisters of Providence during Father Fichter’s silver jubilee. The sisters in the photo either were from Jasper or ministered there. You all know the story by now, but it’s worth repeating. On October 22, 1840, six Sisters of Providence from Ruille sur-Loir, France, journeyed to Indiana at the request of the bishop of Vincennes to help educate the many Catholic immigrants who were settling in the area. The sisters – including Saint...
Week 6: Walking through Lent with Saint Mother Theodore
...April 4 “But with their patience worn out by the journey, the people complained against God and Moses, ‘Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!’” – Numbers 21:4-5 “I cannot think that St. Joseph will let your work fail. We are making a novena for you. Please tell your dear Sisters that they know how interested everybody here at St....
Sister Rita Black
...example she was to them in their spiritual journeys. She loved the fact that she was a Terre Haute native. Two different sisters told of fishing with Rita and her dad. Some of her great patience and love of quiet must have been from these wonderful times. Her marvelous sense of humor brought joy to us all. She was a person you could tell anything and know that she would keep it in confidence. Rita told one that she felt...
Holy Week reflections with Saint Mother Theodore
We hope your time walking through Lent with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin has been beneficial. The week’s reflections below conclude this Lenten journey. May your Holy Week be blessed! Palm Sunday, April 9 “The disciples went as Jesus had ordered them.” – Matthew 21:6 “Let us adore the designs of this good Master and be resigned to His Holy Will.” – Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Jesus seemed to be asking the disciples to do something absurd. They were to go...
Reflecting on Easter: ‘The stone has been rolled away’
...first followers of Jesus felt when they arrived at the tomb, were surprised to see the stone rolled away, found the tomb empty and eventually proclaimed Christ Risen. Is there any greater joy than life overcoming death? Is there any greater longing than to find the stones of our lives rolled away? It reminded me of my own family’s journey the Eastertime my father was suffering from mesothelioma—a rare lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Though he had not...
2021: It has been a roller coaster
...vows. And Leslie Dao entered the postulancy. In addition, 18 lay persons committed as Providence Associates and another 28 began the relationship journey. Although this December may feel like we were free-falling on the downward plunge of a roller coaster ride due to threats emerging from the omicron variant, Mother Theodore’s words comfort us: “… our hope is in the providence of God, which has protected us until the present, and which will provide, somehow, for our future needs.” For...
Disrupting apathy and injustice: Sister Tracey Horan and World Meeting of Popular Movements
...of the people and push for structural changes that affirm the dignity and value of every child of God. And your role is also to call us in the Church to walk with you on your journey, to ‘accompany’ you as the Holy Father likes to say, like Jesus on the Road to Emmaus,” he said. His next words, Sister Tracey said, spoke to her heart and to her call to ministry in community organizing. “And at times I and...
Listening, loving, letting go: reflection for profession of vows
...of the parish church where Dina was volunteering led to a spiritual relationship between the two. Ultimately, that sister, Carolyn Bouchard, helped Dina embrace God’s whispers for her life and invited Dina to a Come & See weekend at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Dina came …. and now nine+ years later, she is ready to say that she will join herself forever to this community and to our Provident God. In requesting perpetual vows, Dina wrote, “The Love I have experienced in...
Light Amid the Darkness
...when we choose to receive the light is a personal journey of faith. Spreading the light is what we do in our daily lives through our personal relationships, our church, our circles, and our ongoing quest for love, mercy and justice in our daily lives. Matthew 5:14 reminds us that we must work with hope inside the darkness — while never doubting the light that God always is — and that we are too. That we are the light as...
2017 reflection for Foundation Day
...you will see many things in new lights if you give the Holy Spirit free access to your minds and hearts.” Well, if there is anything we Sisters of Providence, Providence Associates and other partners in mission have heard repeatedly, it is the Foundation Day story. How, at dusk on the 22nd of October in 1840, Sister St. Theodore and her five sister companions arrived at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods after a perilous three-month journey from France. How their chaplain, Father Buteaux,...
Shared roots: bonds that unite beyond culture, time and place
...had formed so much of Mother Theodore’s spirit and spirituality. I hoped to walk where she walked, to pray where she prayed, to just be — no agenda, no plans, no desired outcomes. All these hopes materialized in the usual ways of Providence — surprises, observations, celebrations and new relationships. Driving up the gravel driveway to the motherhouse for the first time, I felt as if I had stepped into one of our dioramas back at the Woods! Immediately ahead...
With great gratitude for our sisters who further the mission of God’s Providence in Asia
...residence for students at Providence University, which is just about a 10-minute walk from the University. Sister Sophia also is a very talented artist, with many of her artistic creations on display at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, as well as other locations. Serving as Vocation and Formation Director for Asia, Sister Delan Ma is involved not only in the discernment process for women interested in entering the SPs, she also journeys with these women during their initial stages of formation. We feel...