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The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are a community of vowed Catholic women religious. Inspired by our foundress Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, we are passionate about our lives of prayer, education, service and advocacy.
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Biography
Sister Arrianne grew up in Germantown, Wisconsin. She traveled to Terre Haute and eventually became involved with the Sisters of Providence via a year-long volunteer program at the Saint Ann Medical and Dental Services Clinic, which was then a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of Providence. It is now called the Wabash Valley Health Center.
Sister Arrianne, who professed perpetual vows in 2022, said she felt called to the medical profession since the age of 4.
Currently, she ministers as the Family Medicine Physician at Valley Professionals Community Health Clinic in West Terre Haute. Prior to that, she served as a resident physician at the St. Vincent Family Medicine Residency in Indianapolis.
Written by this sister
This sister has written content published on this website. Here is some recent content, or you can view her full author listing here.
- Ten years of transformation
- Called by God to life as a doctor and a Sister of Providence
- First vows: Sister Arrianne’s journey
- Arrianne enters the novitiate
Read more
Sister Arrianne is featured in the following content on the Sisters of Providence website:
- Forever yes! Final vows ceremony for Sisters Arrianne Whittaker and Tracey Horan
- Face-to-face with a pandemic: Sister Arrianne Whittaker
- Faces of our future: a new generation of Sisters of Providence
- Graduation Day!
- Sister Arrianne Whittaker: ‘Providence led me here’
- Meet some newer members
- Get to know Sister Arrianne Whittaker
- Care of Earth attracts new members
- Arrianne’s first vows, June 29, 2014
- Two sisters profess first, perpetual vows
- Stages of formation as a sister
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