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All things possible with Sister Terri Boland
...these Woods but that alone is not the thing that drew me back. It was the story and life energy of the women I met here. It was the whole idea that as we come together the energy that each one of us brings becomes a force greater than anything we could accomplish alone. It was that spirit that moved me. I was looking for a greater commitment in my life and I felt I found it here at Saint...
“The Sisters are always there”
Given the magnitude of the issues facing the Leadership Conference of Women Religious during its recent annual assembly Aug. 7-10 … Given the amazing presence and presentation of keynote speaker Barbara Marx Hubbard… Given the inspiring presidential address offered to 900 members of the conference who responded with a sustained (and sustaining) standing ovation … “Force the dawn to be born by believing in it.” From the presidential address of Sister Pat Farrell, OSF. Given all of this, the lingering...
Sister Nancy Reynolds watches London Olympics with keen interest, especially swimming competition
...she became the team’s statistician. She also coached tennis and cross country for a while, but moved into the role of basketball officiating. In her officiating career, she had five sectional tournaments, five regional tournaments and three semi-states tournaments, a noteworthy achievement. She retired from that because of a broken ankle. She also keeps her high interest in women’s basketball, having attended five of the NCAA Women’s Final Four tournaments. Through the demands of training and the commitment to coaching...
Sisters share USCCB message on immigration
Note: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) recently issued a special message regarding its concern for the situation impacting immigrants in the United States during its plenary assembly in Baltimore. The organization said this is the first time in 12 years it has “invoked this particularly urgent way of speaking as a body of bishops.” As women religious, we have and will continue to stand with and speak up for the human dignity of all persons, now most...
The Joy of Vatican II
...commission. There were prayers of intercession with phrases like, “Oh, wretch that I am” said by pious women with Kleenex on their heads when a hat was forgotten. Certainly, for many I know, life as a Catholic was like walking a tightrope. You had to keep yourself safe from so many dangers. After Vatican II, the doors opened and the church’s words changed: the harshness was gone. One of the most beautiful new words we learned was collegiality. It took...
Young sisters today: Vatican II through education
...10-19 at the time of the start of Vatican II — and 29 members younger than 59 — those who most likely don’t recall much of life before Vatican II. Many of the members who are in initial formation — all women in their 20s, 30s and 40s — have never experienced a Latin Mass and don’t understand references to finding a handkerchief to cover one’s head. Sister Janice Smith, director of novices, was very young when Vatican II started...
The Mission to Asia: A reflection for Foundation Day
...established the relationship between the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, and Asia. During that meeting, Bishop Tacconi, of Kaifeng, China, asked Mother Mary Cleophas if Sisters of Providence could come teach at a school for young women in Kaifeng. Mother Mary Cleophas agreed and dispatched Sisters Marie Gratia Luking, Mary Elise Renaud, Eugene Marie Howard, Marie Patricia Shortall, Clare Mitchell and Winifred Patrice O’Donovan, with Sister Marie Gratia taking the lead of the mission. The six Sisters of...
Life in the Weihsien internment camp, 1943
...in China for various reasons: Mongolian bishops, Dutch nuns, Belgian priests, Australian monks… Everyone is assigned chores. The men keep the kitchen and boiler fires running, pump all the necessary water, cart things around and do all sorts of digging and carpentry and electrical work. The women make all the vegetables, act as nurses, and make powdered calcium from egg shells. Everyone does laundry. It doesn’t sound fun at all yet, right? But here’s the part where the story picks...
Sister Mary Patricia Cummings (formerly Sister Marie Janice)
...passed away on Monday, April 12, 2021, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She was 96 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 79 years. Sister Janet continued: Her friends and family agree, but her opinions were deep held convictions about nuclear disarmament, racial justice, hunger, poverty, the role of women in the Church and ecumenism. After all, she once participated in a demonstration against nuclear weapons in Las Vegas. She was indeed known for telling it like it...
Recognizing the Feast Day of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
...age when she attended a school conducted by the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Five years later, she graduated with honors and a teaching certificate. After the death of her parents in 1876, she applied for entrance into a religious community, but was denied entry because of poor health. She then started an orphanage – called the House of Providence. She found helpers among a small group of women who were attracted by a religious lifestyle. Frances took...
Joyful experience in Taiwan
...(and spouses and children of the same) of Providence University in Shalu, several Missionary Sisters of Providence (founded by our Mother Marie Gratia in the mid-1900’s) joined the Sisters of Providence for the liturgy and luncheon afterwards. Also celebrating with us was a woman who later that afternoon we welcomed to our pre-postulancy program. We feel very blessed that Asian women evidence an interest in becoming Sisters of Providence and demonstrate a deep commitment to serving the mission of Providence....
Sister of Providence celebrates Golden Jubilee
...Trenton, N.J. She professed perpetual vows on Sept. 27, 1975. Sister Mary Beth Klingel (left) and General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski (right) with 2019 Golden Jubilarian Sister Katherine Francis French. Sister Katherine Francis graduated from Immaculata College for Women in Washington, D.C., with an associate’s degree in 1968, and from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in English in 1971. She also earned a master’s degree in Religious Education from St. Thomas Aquinas Pontifical University in Rome, as well...