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Sister Marilú Covani
...a medical doctor. After living and working in Salta, Argentina, for five years, they moved to the U.S. in 1967 and lived in New York and Michigan while they continued their studies and work. They became parents to beloved son, Ricky. Ricky was only 9 years old when his father died and Marilú raised him to adulthood. She had thought about a religious vocation when she was young and before she got married but her life took another path. After...
All things possible: Sister Marilú Covani
Sister Marilú Covani understands the challenges life can bring. She is trained in cytogenetics and worked as a technician with chromosomes and genetics. She is a widow, mother and grandmother. She is a Sister of Providence. She is the first member of the Congregation to walk that path. “I thought about a religious vocation when I was young. I thought about it before I was married and while I was in medical school. It was still with me all the...
Cherishing creation
...Earth, our home, is under terrible threat due to human action. Recently, White Violet Center revised its vision statement to include an understanding of Providence that calls each of us to care for our natural world before our natural world is no longer able to care for us. But there is also a spiritual urgency. Returning again to the recent work of Johnson, she explains: “Commitment to ecological wholeness in partnership with a more just social order is the vocation...
A “sampling” of everyday miracles
...sampling of what I glean from all over the world. Giraud who lives “330 miles from Mother Theodore’s house” wishes for a relic. Raul from Florida wants to request prayers for his family. Alice, a Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College alumna who now lives in Colorado, wants to spread devotion in the Rocky Mountains. Brother Chris wants Mother Theodore’s relic so he can pursue his vocational call in the Philippines. Opara, who is soon to have a new baby wanted Mother Theodore’s...
Sister Loretta Maureen Gansemer
...hold in benediction. Her life was a single canticle of praise in gratitude in her provident God for the gift of her life, her baptism, and her vocation as a Sister of Providence, said Sister Barbara Ann Zeller in her commentary for Sister Loretta Maureen Gansemer, who died on Sunday, May 17. She was 85 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 66 years. Loretta was born in Missouri Valley, Iowa, in 1930, and was the daughter...
Tracey and Anna enter novitiate
Sister Anna Fan, General Superior Sister Denise Wilkinson and Sister Tracey Horan. Sister Anna Fan (left) and Sister Marsha Speth, postulant director. Sister Nancy Nolan, vocation office coordinator, and Sister Tracey Horan (right). Sister Anna Fan (left) and Sister Jenny Howard, general officer liaison. Sisters Tracey Horan (middle) and Barbara Battista (right) pose with Tracey’s friend, Emily TeKolste, during the reception. Sister Carol Kimes (left) has companioned Sister Tracey Horan for several years. Sister Anna Fan (left) with Sister Donna...
School Daze
...have great hearts and “Mother Theodore choir” voices can be a delicate balance. (For those not familiar with the Mother Theodore choir, back in the day, the sisters who did not have the voice for the schola were relegated to the “Mother Theodore choir” in the pews). Just getting some of the kiddos to hold the hymnals right side up is an accomplishment. Teaching is a vocation I embrace and thank our Provident God for giving me this gift again!...
Habit forming dialogue
...one another, either personally or through creative systems like our very own “free rack.” I have heard some of these same sisters talk about how they have been dismissed or looked down on by people who didn’t consider them “real” vowed religious, simply because of their external appearance. For me, this is a personal issue. But, with a spirit of honesty, a desire for understanding, and a quick invocation of the spirit, I responded. I explained that after Vatican II...
Co-creating the future with God
...and determination were purely motivated by my strong desire to do God’s will, to respond to God’s call and to serve in return to God’s unconditional love. It has been 48 years blessed years since I responded to that initial call. And I am still relishing it. I am deeply grateful for God actively engaging with me as I today walk with women discerning their vocations, as I foster respect in our diversity and live in the spirit of abundance...
Sister Amata Dugan
...her back. Her brother got his friends to join him in teasing her by yelling across the yard, ‘HELL-o, HELL-en!’ but still she stood undaunted.’ And Marceline could not get her to speak to her. It was not until Helen entered the Congregation some 15 years later that Marceline found out why little Helen stood and stared at her. No, it was nothing sublime like the first seeds of her vocation. Actually, she told Marceline, ‘Never in my life had...
Sisters share memories of the ‘Greatest Spectacle in Racing’
...scholarship, room, board, tuition and fees, renewable for four years. She was Tony’s wife, and from the La Fendrich cigar family. “I met her in a group once, but I didn’t have the courage to tell her that I owed my attendance at the college, and possibly my vocation, to her generosity. I entered the novitiate in the middle of my freshman year.” Sister Ann Casper In addition, Sister Arlene Knarzer recalled how her uncles served in the pits for...
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin: On the instruction of children
...advice and wisdom for teachers, parents and all those who work with children. Enjoy! On the instruction of Children … Oh, what beautiful vocation is ours! Have you sometimes thought, my dear sisters, that you were called to do on earth what Our Lord Himself did? He instructed and you instruct. He was surrounded by little children and you spend your life among them. I should wish to be able to give you a great idea of this fourth vow...