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A call to change
...regained with education and opportunity, job stability, family and community support. I know this is not true for all white, American women. Women the world over, including in our own backyard, suffer from religious and cultural norms that exclude them, or reduce them to less than fully human. As racial tensions ebb and flow in our own country, we realize that these are not isolated incidents with certain individuals, but they point to larger systemic ills in our communities and...
Blessed Sacrament Chapel: transforming hearts through prayer
...the Shrine of Our Lady of Providence. Calling Providence Associates So Sister Mary Rita got permission and began inviting Providence Associates to also take hours in the chapel. Providence Associates are women and men of faith who have committed themselves to be in relationship with the Sisters of Providence. Sister Mary Rita thought it a perfect fit. “It’s kind of what the goal of the Providence Associates is — to be part of the Sisters of Providence and continue our...
Providence Associates, Sisters of Providence: 10 years in relationship
Ten years ago, on Nov. 17, 2007, the Sisters of Providence formally welcomed its first group of 54 Providence Associates to the Congregation. In the past 10 years, 268 women and men have followed their call to become Providence Associates. They “further the charism of the Sisters of Providence by co-creating a hope-filled world, building relationships, cultivating community, and living lives that challenge them to embody the face of Providence as they seek to be love, mercy, and justice in...
All things possible: Sister Marilú Covani
...said. “I really felt called to work with the Hispanic Catholics in the United States. I asked to come here [Southern California] after my canonical novitiate year.” She has served as pastoral coordinator for Hispanic ministry and coordinator of Hispanic Liturgy in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. She now serves as director for worship for the Diocese of San Bernardino. She also has helped lay women at Casa Providencia, where women contemplated religious life while living, working and studying with...
Sisters who served in Civil War to be honored
...help of friends, the State President of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Chairman of the Nuns’ Memorial Committee. “For me personally, I think they were valiant women,” Sister Marie Grace said. “This is what our Congregation does: Respond to the needs of the time.” Kennedy said approval for the marker was needed from the organization’s national board. “Without that, it would not have happened,” she said. “This is a commemorative marker donated by the...
Sister Emily TeKolste professes first vows with Sisters of Providence
...discerning with my mentor what pieces to include in my personal plan for growth and transformation,” Sister Emily said. “I feel like I have a little more freedom to direct my ongoing growth while still having some extra support and opportunities to reconnect at the Woods. Sisters of Providence General Officer Jenny Howard, who ministers as the liaison to the New Membership Team, said the Congregation is “always welcoming new women who wish to join us in this mission. We’re...
Sister Alexa Suelzer
...is a Doctorate in Sacred Theology, which is a Pontifical Degree, but women were not allowed to obtain Pontifical Degrees in 1962. She was to be awarded a Ph.D. That did not bother Alexa as much as it would other people. When there was a Vincentian canonist as President of Catholic University, I asked Alexa if I could write to him and ask that she be awarded the STD, which was the degree she actually earned. She did not hesitate...
Reconnecting with Basilian Sisters in Ukraine
During the summer of 1997, Sister Karen Marie Franks, a San Rafael Dominican Sister, and I were part of the effort to assist women religious in the Eastern European countries which had regained independence from the Soviet Union, including Ukraine. Both Sister Karen Marie and I were on the faculty of Mercy High School in San Francisco. Sister Maureen Abbott (right) with Sister Karen Marie Franks, a San Rafael Dominican Sister. We were invited to teach English to the newer...
True to the calling: Providence Associate Joan Frisz
...say, my relationship began in the womb. My mother’s best friend growing up was [Sister] Joan Klega. I was named after her. I was educated by the SPs in elementary school at St. Patrick’s School in Terre Haute and at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. There is probably no group of people that I admire and respect more than women religious. They have formed me, nurtured me and loved me. They continue to challenge me, teach me, and inspire me. This relationship...
Tracing Providence: a Providence Associate reflects
...I applied. Within a week of classes starting, I attended a dance in a barn at an even smaller nearby women’s college out in the country. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods was a remarkably beautiful and peaceful place, much different from the more modern atmosphere of Rose-Hulman in Terre Haute, Indiana. A year later, I met and fell in love with a beautiful blonde Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College student who just happened to be from my rival high school back in Cincinnati. After Jennifer...
Rejoice with us: A Silver Jubilee Reflection
...and the lost? An Ubuntu song we used during our LCWR (Leadership Conference of Women Religious) meetings last week helps express what is in my own heart about religious life: “I am because WE are. WE are because I am. United as one we’ll be.” ‘Meant to be Messengers’ Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister says it this way: Together we are meant to be messengers, models and makers of a whole new world of justice and love wherever we are. Wherever...
Sisters honor five with Saint Mother Theodore Companion awards at donor dinner
...of Mother Theodore’s companions.” Sister Laura presented the award to Mamas Mending. Since 2023, the women from Mamas Mending have volunteered once a month to mend for the Sisters. “Your work is more than just sewing,” Sister Laura said. “It is a profoundly human service, a quiet act of restoration that returns dignity, comfort and care to the everyday lives of others. In every stitch, your compassion is felt. Representatives from Mamas Mending receiving their award from General Superior Sister...