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Celebrating National Catholic Schools Week with pen pals!
...Joni’s Teen Volunteer ministry should contact her at jluna@spsmw.org or at 361-500-9505. National Catholic Schools Week 2023 Theme – Catholic Schools: Faith. Excellence. Service. January 29 – February 4 Daily Themes: Sunday, January 29 – Celebrating Your Parish Monday, January 30 – Celebrating Your Community Tuesday, January 31 – Celebrating Your Students Wednesday, February 1 – Celebrating the Nation Thursday, February 2 – Celebrating Vocations Friday, February 3 – Celebrating Faculty, Staff and Volunteers Saturday, February 4 – Celebrating Families...
Explore religious life with the Sisters of Providence
...from April 14-16 for the “Come and See” weekend retreat. Sisters of Providence Vocations Director Sister Joni Luna, SP, said she hopes those who attend the retreat find the Congregation inviting. “I want women to know that religious life with the Sisters of Providence is a spiritual pathway to living, serving and walking with those in need,” Sister Joni said. “We use our God-given gifts and talents in service to others.” During the retreat, participants will experience the mission of...
Gifts that keep on giving
...give her a positive outlook on life by reminding her that God will always provide. She recognized this as a gift in and of itself, the gift of sharing God’s love with others. Belief in the mission General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski plays with the baby granddaughter of Providence Associate Eileen Horan in 2017. Mary Ellen admires Sister Dawn’s commitment to her vocation. And she appreciates Sister Cathy’s investment in her own education. Both influenced her decision to support the...
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...
Oral history: Sister Cathy Campbell the storyteller
...job, she felt a restlessness gnawing at her. Should she be a professional journalist or did Providence have other plans for her? “Once I got to know the Sisters of Providence, it was a one-way trip in this direction.” It was not the first time a religious vocation had been hinted at. Teachers had challenged, encouraged and empowered her when Cathy was growing up. Several friends and teachers suggested that God may be calling her to be a sister. However,...
July 2, 2023: Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...one difficult to read! There is really no equivocation in Jesus’ speech here. No “strive” just the imperative; do it! Love me more than all others. Pick up the cross. Love your way in the world. Jesus calls his followers to learn a love that surpasses anything they have ever known or encountered before. It is the love our Creator has for us. It is difficult. We are being asked to transform our live into a new way of living...
Sister Carolyn Kessler (formerly Sister Ann Carolyn)
...teacher. Sister Rose Ann Eaton recalls that during her time in the novitiate, there were several other novices who had entered from Marywood and Memorial and she recalls their talking about Sister Ann Carolyn as an influence in their lives and their vocation. Sister Carolyn Kessler (left) and her guest, Sister Joseph Fillenwarth. Sister Maureen Fallon reports that when she was teaching at Memorial 10 years later, family members of Sister Carolyn’s students still asked about her and spoke words...
Sister Adele Beacham (formerly Sister Joseph Therese)
...Only declining health caused her to end these ministries of service in 2020. In later years, her ministry card assigned her to pray for vocations and to bring joy to others. It is well known that Adele was one of three Sisters of Providence arrested, handcuffed and shackled in 2002 for peacefully protesting the operation of the School of the Americas. Even a U.S. Marshal who helped shackle the barely 5-foot-tall Adele admitted that, “This is an embarrassment.” Once the...
Monthly prayer with the Sisters of Providence
All single women ages 18-42 are invited to pray with the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, via Zoom. Join the Sisters of Providence from wherever you are on the seventh day of each month at 7 p.m., EDT. The prayer sessions last approximately 45 minutes. Postulant Leslie Dao at prayer Sisters of Providence Vocation Director Sister Joni Luna, SP, said she hopes the monthly prayer sessions will engage those who participate. “These prayer groups will offer women in...
Sisters of Providence welcome new postulant
...also from Stephanie’s hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas. For Stephanie, her discernment process actually began in 2019 as she investigated many other congregations. But after meeting with Sisters of Providence Vocations Director, Sister Joni Luna, SP, she felt God nudging her closer and closer to the Sisters of Providence. “I always came back here,” Stephanie Said. “Sister Joni always reached out to me. It started in 2020 through social media.” Stephanie has a bachelor’s degree in management from Our Lady...
Sisters of Providence newsnotes from HOPE fall 2023
...my life journey around many times. I believe that God knows what is the best for me. I believe God wants me to take the journey that will enrich my life more and deeper. For almost nine years I have been a Sister of Providence. My vocation led me to leave my comfort zone and drew me closer to God.” – Sister Anna Fan, SP Hillary Person Welcome Hillary Person The Sisters of Providence welcome Hillary Person as our new...
Meet our postulant Stephanie Rivas
...daily mass and Eucharistic adoration. Most of my free time outside of work and hanging out with friends was spent at church: hanging out at church and also accompanying others on their journey. It was something I would always come back to. God has nudged me in small ways and big ways. I kept seeing sisters and nuns in my dreams, on TV, and, after I returned home from a vocation retreat, one time even at the DMV. Mission Why...