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A reflection for Memorial Day 2020
...Remember, remember, these best and brightest traded their dreams of future and wishes, for yours. How did I end up, then, as a Sister of Providence? I had a long, continuous relationship with the Sisters of Providence, graduating from the Juniorate, entering the Novitiate, working in the Infirmary, requesting to choose nursing instead of education, then leaving with my father one fine spring visiting day wondering “What have I done?” Twenty-eight years later, my office in the Indianapolis Archdiocesan Center...
Newsnotes
...greet visitors to the Sisters of Providence booth. 20 years serving together 2020 marked the 20th year that White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (WVC) welcomed students from the Center for Service and Justice at Creighton University on their alternative spring break. “We were attracted to the combination of faith, justice, and environmental sustainability WVC and the Sisters of Providence offered,” said Ken Reed-Bouley, the current director of the center at the Jesuit University. Eight students and their advisors traveled all...
White Violet Center: Meet the new 2020 fall intern cohort
...past spring we built a chicken coop together for 10 Rhode Island Red hens that joined us in quarantine. In high school, I participated in a volunteer opportunity called “gleaning” at local farms, whose farmers leave portions of their crops to be harvested and then distribute fresh produce to the poor and hungry of the local community via Catholic Charities, soup kitchens, and NJ Farmers Against Hunger. “In college I was scheduled to major in studio art and architecture. Both...
Farewell to Guerin College Prep
...sadness, the faculty and staff were determined to “make this the best semester yet.” Then the unthinkable happened. COVID-19 pandemic moved classes online. Cancellations of proms, the final theater production, spring sports, sports banquet, student-parent dinner dances, and closing student activities all followed. I entered Guerin Prep as a timid and shy freshman, but I left as a confident and ambitious young man. Because of Guerin, I have created lifelong relationships with not only my peers, but some of the...
Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...Hospice Volunteer (2009), * Melrose Park, Ill.: Chaplain/Bereavement Coordinator/Volunteer Coordinator, Gottlieb Hospice Services (2010-15), and * Melrose Park, Ill.: Chaplain/Bereavement Coordinator/Volunteer Coordinator, Loyola Medicine Home Care (2015-16). Sister Marie McCarthy is a native of Chicago Heights. Currently, she ministers as the Associate Director of Programs for the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Silver Spring, Md. Sister Marie McCarthy Sister Marie entered the Congregation on Sept. 12, 1960, from St. Liborius Parish, Steger, Ill. She professed perpetual vows on Aug. 15,...
Quietly breaking boundaries, creating hope
...1967, teaching English in Our Lady of Providence High School in Clarksville, Indiana, she was again impressed by the deep spirituality of her students. While there, thanks to a grant from the Lilly Foundation, Sister Suzanne earned a master’s degree in history. In the spring of 1968, because Saint Mary-of the –Woods College needed a history teacher, Suzanne was told to get a doctoral degree in history. So, she found herself at Saint Louis University writing a dissertation about United...
Sigh … it’s Lent again
...to get more in touch with that sighing that is “too deep for words” and ask the Spirit to pray within me and to intercede for those who are ill with the virus, who have lost loved ones, who risk their own lives to care for others and to provide essential services. Have a wonderful Lent everyone! Looking for something more to do this Lent (other than sighing)? Join the Sisters of Providence for our Scriptures of Lent/Spring virtual sessions....
WVC announces personnel changes
...John-Michael added. “I was an intern and then I was a seasonal garden hand in the spring of 2015. I came back and volunteered a few times in 2018 and as a seasonal employee in 2020.” John-Michael Elmore “This feels like coming back to my second home,” he continued. “The Sisters of Providence community has been a part of my life since I was born. As a newborn, I lived on campus at the Guest House because my parents had...
Sisters of Providence struggles and wisdom amidst pandemic
...spring day. Several sisters mentioned an “attitude of gratitude.” Sister Rita Clare Gerardot keeps “thanking God for my good eyesight as I love to read and have read many books during these weeks.” She and several others expressed deep gratitude for those who have provided care for the sisters during the pandemic. Additionally, Sister Marianne Ridgell expressed profound appreciation for the blessings that are ours: “…we have Community and are not going through this alone like so many others.” Several...
Virtual opportunities a silver lining to a pandemic
The Church of the Immaculate Conception ready for virtual worshipers for monthly Taizé prayer When the world shut down in the spring of 2020 it would have been understandable if the Sisters of Providence would follow suit. Surely no one would blame them for taking a break during such an unprecedented time. But if you know our sisters at all, it probably won’t surprise you that not even a global pandemic could stop the Sisters of Providence. In fact, being...
My Indiana! Meet our new director of Mission Advancement
...I have always lived in the fine state of Illinois. Originally from Chicago — Christ the King parish, as we southsiders identify by parish — my path then took me westward to my mother’s hometown of Western Springs, then to Champaign-Urbana for college, on to studying law at Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent and then to rural Oneida. All in Illinois, I have worked in banking, in private law practices and as a fundraiser in higher education and for social...
Reflecting on National Day of Prayer
...of prayer. This was to protest the British plan to station English troops in the city’s harbor. Prayer as protest? In the New England Colonies under British rule, a day in late fall called for a day of prayer in the spirit of thanksgiving. Days in spring or summer called for prayer and fasting. Prayer recognizing the lights and shadows of our nation? In January-February 1952 during the Korean War, Reverend Billy Graham advocated for a national day of prayer....