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Sister Emily TeKolste entrance to the novitiate Aug. 5, 2017
She is officially Sister Emily! On Saturday, Aug. 5, Emily TeKolste moved into her next step in formation as she becomes a Sister of Providence. She entered the novitiate, receiving the title “sister” and her white novices cross. Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates blessed her on the way. Read Sister Dawn Tomaszewski’s reflection from the day here....
2017 reflection for Foundation Day
...on an old white horse to visit the sick in weather which no doctor would brave, and many a dying child received Baptism from her hands.” From the fictional diary of Sister Olympiad Boyer. Written from the sisters’ one room in the Thralls Farmhouse. I can’t sleep. You would think given all the perils of travel we experienced today that I would just fall upon my bed and sleep like a log. But I am worried about Sister Basilide. She...
Sister Adelaide Ortegel
...please keep sharing them! Each morning, like me, you have an opportunity to praise God for the imprint Adelaide left in our lives as we pin on the white Sister of Providence cross that she designed in the 1960s, and that Providence Associates have adapted as their insignia. Many often asked me after I visited her in recent years, “Did Adelaide know you?” Here’s my answer. “Yes! Adelaide knew me. We met at the deepest level of childlikeness to which...
A Christmas memory
...our altitude looked like a giant Christmas tree lit up in red, white and green. I still have a very vivid picture in my memory. We landed in Tel Aviv just at the beginning of Hannukah! We quickly learned that homecoming Jewish friends and families were met with extraordinary warmth, surrounded by large circles of welcoming families and friends singing and dancing a folk song. In the midst of what can only be called a very dynamic, raucous, chaotic setting,...
The ‘month of our Mother’
...years later, continuing this treasured practice of the community with “devotedness and love.” I clearly remember the ritual of May crowning throughout my 16 years of Sisters of Providence education, especially in my early days in grade school at St. Joseph’s, Downers Grove, Ill. I could hardly wait for it. I loved the hymns, the flowers, the procession, and especially the tradition of the very sweetest, nicest eighth-grade girl (and she was!) dressed in white as a bride, crowning the...
Reflections from the 2018 Golden/Silver Jubilee Celebration
...a less tumultuous time in the world, but the choice to enter religious life in 1993 was no longer something many Catholic women were doing. Why would Pat Linehan, after a 25-year career as a Navy Nurse, seek religious life? Why would Kathleen Bernadette Smith, an accomplished musician and a pastoral presence in her own African American community, seek life in a predominately white Providence community? It would be easy for me to say that the answer to these questions...
Celebrating 8th Day Center for Justice
...of loss that, as the drumbeat of white supremacy in the U.S. echoes louder and the inequality gap widens, this beacon of creative non-violent resistance is simultaneously dimming. So Kak’s words were welcome when she took the microphone to close the celebration and reminded us all that, “What has been, will be again. What has been done will be done again.” The transformation that 8th Day has begun is not limited to its 44-year life span. Perhaps, as Sikh activist...
Advent 2018: So many possibilities in the waiting
...they got there. Maybe we care for a beloved elder who no longer recognizes us; but, listening to I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas, she begins to sing along. That’s worth waiting for! Or maybe we decide we’ve waited long enough and take that step to mend a broken relationship. So many possibilities in the waiting. So many times in the waiting we can wake ourselves up, get out of our everyday way of seeing life and take the chance...
Prayer: Small blessings, big impact
Oh, God, it’s winter. I think of the small blessings of cold and chill, ice and snow, and how the season can have a big effect on my mood and feelings, if I let it. Small, one-of-a-kind snowflakes create big, white blankets of beauty and soon receive squeals of delight as youngsters, muffled and gloved, hop on sleds, careening down hillsides. Small droplets of water freeze to become big cave-like stalactites, hanging, fine-sculpted ice formations catching the sun’s rays, delighting...
Sister Prom 2019
...Dance” for the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sisters and students filled the room with enjoyment and carefree dancing. Sister Donna Butler said “this is my first prom ever” and giggled. She was tickled pink to be at this dance. Thanks to SMWC basketball students Delaney Kendall, Brianna Smith and Regan Hubbard, the sisters felt welcome and joined the students in the middle of the dance floor. White lights and colorful streamers decorated O’Shaughnessy Dining Room for the event....
Sister Cecilia Carter (formerly Sister Mary Cecilia)
...community. She replied: “I have no roots in Orange. My roots are at the Woods.” In August of 1977, both Celia and I were missioned at St. Elizabeth in Van Nuys, California. Celia had finished her terms as Provincial and I had come from our House of Prayer, which had closed. Quite soon, Celia confided to me that she also felt called to a more contemplative lifestyle and had inquired with the Trappistines at White Thorn in northern California. So...
The living and growing Providence Associate relationship in California and beyond
...Martha Langarica, Emma Contreras with Sister Marilú Covani at a California Providence Circle gathering. The other Sisters of Providence in our area were and are very helpful: Sister Marilú Covani companioned Martha, Sister Cathy White David, my co-worker Sister Loretta Picucci Emma, and I shared in April’s journey. Besides our frequent gatherings in Coachella, several times we met in San Bernardino at one of their residences, including that of Sister Jeremy Gallet, who came on the scene a little later. ...