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The wonder of baking
...Sick is given by a priest and the gathered community to strengthen a person who is sick or about to have surgery. “It’s a prayerful occasion,” Sister Rose Marita said. “It’s an anointing for the preparation of death. It allows a person to spring back and gives them the strength to go on for a while longer, to enjoy life. Evidently, that has worked for me.” The sacrament breathed fresh air into Sister Rose Marita’s lungs and since that November...
Sustainable agriculture internships
...long days working in the 7-acre USDA certified organic garden or in the alpaca barn. Depending on what months you’re here, you might spend hours learning fiber arts like weaving, knitting, spinning and needle-felting. If you’re interning in the spring, you’ll likely learn about seeds and planting. If you’re here in the summer, you might learn about pest management, how weather conditions affect organic gardening (ok, that’s all seasons), and have experiences with people who buy the vegetables you help...
“You don’t give up on a person” Sister Rita Clare’s journey with a prisoner
...youth. Sister Rita Clare says David has learned to give back. He helps inmates with appeals. He’s designed and sold Christmas cards and raised $95K for at-risk children in the U.S. A friend David’s death sentence was commuted to life in prison in 2014. He has since been imprisoned in Springfield, Missouri in a prison that provides for his serious diabetes complications, including blindness in his left eye and open sores on his feet. Sister Rita Clare writes him a...
Newsnotes HOPE summer 2017
...Minimum Wage.” Sister Rosemary represented Forward Together Terre Haute during the event. Sister Marsha Speth serves as a member of the Indiana State University Human Rights Day committee. Sister Marian Brady retires After 35 years teaching in the School of Philosophy at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Sister Marian Brady, SP, retired last spring. “I dearly love teaching, but I’m 89 years old,” Sister Marian said. “I’ve been a teacher all my life. I just know there’s a...
Sisters’ archives department receives grant
...funding,” Sister Janet said, regarding the upgrades. The department officially learned they had received the grant in early spring this year. “We were really grateful,” Sister Janet said. “We were delighted that the Historical Society recognizes the value of our collections.” Both Sister Marianne and Sister Janet said part of the grant money will be used to digitize many of the materials the department has to offer. Beginning in August, the Archives staff plans to work with the Wabash Valley...
L’association Providence-Armor
...Advent and the season of Christmas approaching, as you prepare your home, please envision preparing the fertile soil of your heart for the Christ child. It takes digging deeper, turning the ground, picking out the weeds, sticks and stones … until the earth (your heart) is prepared to receive the promise and hope of new life. Now picture next spring, in France, at Saint Mother Theodore’s home … good people gathered there to plant seeds and flowers and trees. They...
Sister Adelaide Ortegel
...glass windows in the convent’s chapel. That’s when Providence caused our paths to cross in August 1968. I was a scholastic novice and Sister Francis Alma, the superior of the house, was confronted with the challenge of having me and several other sisters in formation in her charge. Based on her observation of how Sister Adelaide and I had connected during a visit in the spring before I came, she enlisted Adelaide to mentor me. I did not know this...
Sisters honored at annual Bishop’s Dinner
San Bernardino Bishop Gerald Barnes (standing) with Sisters of Providence (from left) Cathy White, Loretta Picucci and Carol Nolan. PALM DESERT, Calif. – San Bernardino Bishop Gerald Barnes recognized the 2018 recipients of his Amar Es Entregarse Award during the Bishop’s Dinner on April 7, at the J.W. Marriot Desert Springs Resort in Palm Desert, Calif. This year’s seven recipients included Sisters of Providence Carol Nolan and Loretta Picucci with Providence in the Desert, and Sister Cathy White and the...
Newsnotes
...these ministries have been able to accomplish over the years. Sharing life as an SP We were so excited to have 17 women join us for our spring Come and See weekend in April. Single, Catholic women ages 18 to 42 came to explore if life as a Sister of Providence might befor them. One participant said of her experience, “I like the sisters’ deep and beautiful understanding of God — how it connects them to others, the Earth and...
Memories of Providence Brittany (RIP)
...never forgot, and Providence Brittany sends her a Christmas card each year!” Sister Ann added Providence Brittany will be missed. “She was a perfect beginning animal for us to make our early mistakes in raising alpacas,” Sister Ann said. “She was a unique personality, which we unwittingly helped to create, a great mother, a peaceful part of the herd, and a focus for great stories. “She will be sadly missed. She leaves a few of her offspring to carry on...
Sister Cecilia Carter (formerly Sister Mary Cecilia)
...her up, as well as the defunct amigo. Once she told me that she was bird watching in the cemetery and she took a sharp turn in her amigo, which dumped over and she fell from it. She was so afraid that someone would see her and forbid her to go out unaccompanied anymore that she jumped up quickly, righted the amigo, and acted as if nothing had happened. During the early spring of 2018, Celia had a serious bout...
Earth Day 2019
...something different to play with or something to make. Everything was earth friendly. Bake Sales are always yummy. Spring is the best time of the year for purchasing flowers and plants. Providence Healthcare Center had a great selection to choose from. Texas Roadhouse armadillo joined the Earth Day event! Food vendors cooked rain and shine. Sisters Lisa Stallings, Mary Beth Klingel and General Superior Dawn Tomaszewski were enjoying greeting everyone at the information booth. Food vendors cooked rain and shine....