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Dementia Education Series: A Positive Approach to Care
September 12, 2025 at 3:00 pm – September 9, 2025 at 7:00 pm EDT The Foley Room at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center 1 Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 Elizabeth Collins, BSN, MA Sisters of Providence Free Register online today This series is designed to help you build skills and gain confidence to care for your loved one with expertise. Intended for care partners, Sisters of Providence nurse, Beth Collins, and Thrive’s Dementia Outreach Specialist, Amy Schorr will...
Newsnotes from HOPE summer 2023
...the one here. Sister Marilyn Baker offers spiritual help, only 5 cents, to Archbishop Thompson of Indianapolis. Sisters of Providence on the road Sisters of Providence have been sharing the mission of love, mercy and justice and the story of Saint Mother Theodore far and wide. Vocation Director Sister Joni Luna, SP, and a group of sisters set up at the SEEK conference for Catholic college students in January. They traveled to the LA Religious Education Congress in February. In...
Dementia Education Series: A Positive Approach to Care
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST The Foley Room at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center 1 Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 Elizabeth Collins, BSN, MA Sisters of Providence Free Register online today This series is designed to help you build skills and gain confidence to care for your loved one with expertise. Intended for care partners, Sisters of Providence nurse, Beth Collins, and Thrive’s Dementia Outreach Specialist, Amy Schorr will introduce participants to Teepa...
Creating hope for the elderly and their family members in Taiwan
...to extend God’s love, mercy, and justice in the world, through respect and care for the elderly and disabled (particularly the underprivileged), by tending to their physical, emotional and spiritual health. Growth to meet needs Over the years, what began as a small operation serving about 30 clients has grown exponentially. In 2003 space at the convent was expanded to help meet an ever-increasing demand. Gardening class for elders. In 2013 Sister Rose Chiu, SP, inherited the good work that...
Sister Joyce Brophy (formerly Sister Robert Ellen)
...retirement years beginning in 1999, she enjoyed volunteer ministries with The Connecting Link, Providence Spirituality & Conference Center, Residential Services and Prayer ministry. She prayed especially for vocations. We all know none of us is perfect — even Joyce. Though always fair and firm, she had a stubborn streak as well. And very outspoken. An example of stubborn: I was one of Joyce’s Health Care Representatives. At every quarterly care plan meeting, the dietary representative would ask Joyce about the...
Justice advocates and Providence Associates
Providence Associates Ben Kite, left, and Jeanne Rewa have found justice seekers, spiritual support and friendship among the Sisters of Providence. Jeanne Rewa and Ben Kite are both Providence Associates and members of the Sisters of Providence (SP) Justice Coordinating Commission (JCC). Jeanne works for a nonprofit, World Savvy. She’s an online learning and engagement specialist supporting K-12 teachers to help their students develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be change-makers on global issues. Ben is currently an independent...
A faceless ghost?
...she was quick to point out that no “trouble” has occurred in Foley since the Mass was offered. A greater spiritual force Is this just someone’s imagination? “It could be,” she conjectured, “but then maybe it could be true. After all, I do have witnesses, even though one of my chief witnesses, Catherine, backed out on me.” Perhaps none of us will ever know or understand the psychological and philosophical questions involved in the supernatural. As Sister Esther emphasized in...
The Sisters of Providence mission: living the Gospel today
...of those who are spiritually hungry. Our White Violet Center for Eco-Justice provides organic food and works to heal this ailing planet we call Earth. Sisters serving But beyond our sponsored institutions and ministries, we Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods carry out the mission in many other ways as well. Our doctor, nurses and other health care ministers provide care for those who suffer physically, emotionally and/or spiritually. Our spiritual directors and hospital chaplains attend to those who, in...
Spiritual companions in the Woods: Providence Associate candidate orientation 2019
On Saturday, 24 new Providence Associate candidates gathered at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Here they met the Sisters of Providence and Providence Associate companions who will walk with them in the coming year. The Oct. 19 orientation day began a year for them to spend time reflecting on their lives and their faith and getting to better know the spirituality and mission of the Sisters of Providence. Enjoy these photos from the day. Are you looking to deepen your relationship with...
October 31, 2021: Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
...strength … and your neighbor as yourself.” How should we think about these two ways of being and living? Father Richard Rohr and other spiritual teachers remind us that we need a reliance on a morality code such as the Ten Commandments in our early years to set us on a path of correct living. But as we mature, he states, “We need to undergo a radical transformation to the mind and heart of God.” And the mind and heart...
The legacy of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
The Sisters of Providence placed a Celtic cross at Mother Theodore’s gravesite in the cemetery. She was a Celt, a woman of Brittany. Bretons are Celts. By Sister Marie Kevin Tighe, formerly of the Office of the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin The legacy of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin is not a material or monetary one. It is a spiritual gift bestowed upon her by the Holy Spirit. This kind of legacy is sometimes referred to as a charism,...
Sister Joann Quinkert
...at age 17, being a religious sister was the only way a woman could dedicate herself to service in the Church. I felt called to give the best that I could to God. Religious life seemed to be the answer for me,” she said. The bond has grown stronger with time. “Community provided for me the intellectual and spiritual training for the foundation of my life of love, mercy and justice. I have had opportunities to expand my horizons and...