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Remembering Sisters Mary Loyola Bender and Ann Kevin O’Connor

By Jason Moon | December 15, 2016 |

This week’s Throwback Thursday blog will take a look at the lives and ministries of Sister Mary Loyola Bender and Sister Ann Kevin O’Connor

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Remembering Sisters Amata Dugan and Michael Ellen Green

By Jason Moon | December 8, 2016 |

Sister Amata Dugan and Sister Michael Ellen Green

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Visiting Taiwan

By Jason Moon | December 2, 2016 |

General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, and General Council members Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp, Sister Lisa Stallings and Sister Jenny Howard all traveled to Taiwan during the week of Thanksgiving to visit…

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Remembering Sisters Regina Therese Shaughnessy and Marilyn Rose Ginder

By Jason Moon | December 1, 2016 |

Remembering the lives of Sister Regina Therese Shaughnessy and Sister Marilyn Rose Ginder

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What has happened to us since that first Thanksgiving?

By Sister Dawn Tomaszewski | November 22, 2016 |

It helped me to return to the original story to remind myself that right relationship is possible

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Throwback Thursday: Remembering Sister Gaudentia Downey

By Jason Moon | November 17, 2016 |

Students at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College who had the opportunity to meet Sister Gaudentia often referred to her as ‘Sister Joy.’

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The Death of a Dear Friend

By Sister Mary Moloney | November 7, 2016 |

I remember her enthusiasm for the Holy Spirit

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Throwback Thursday: Remembering Sister Beth Kelso

By Jason Moon | November 3, 2016 |

Sister Beth taught in high schools and academies in Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, California and Washington, D.C.

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Lives of the Saints

By Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp | October 31, 2016 |

He encouraged me to live a life like that of my mother

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Throwback Thursday: Remembering Sister Therese Berry

By Jason Moon | October 27, 2016 |

According to her records in Archives, she was “remembered as an outstanding teacher, one who kept her classroom with beautiful décor”

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Called to perform: Sandra Hartlieb’s Mother Theodore

By Lori Strawn | October 24, 2016 |

“I was mad at Mother Theodore!” Sandra confesses. For years, Sandra had struggled with corneal degeneration. Prayers for Mother Theodore’s intervention seemed to fall on deaf ears.
“I wandered around the grounds complaining,” Sandra explains. “I ‘heard’ a voice saying, ‘Tell my story.’ Well, I said, ‘I am telling MY story!’ But the voice came again, and I realized it was HER! Telling me to tell HER story! I decided to do it.”

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Letter to Cardinal Elect Joseph Tobin

By Sister Dawn Tomaszewski | October 23, 2016 |

We have found in you an advocate for Catholic higher education, as well as religious life

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Often, some of the most interesting pieces of history are lost in time. These inviting stories are drawn from the Sisters of Providence Archives and the memories of sisters and friends. They feature the many people and places instrumental in the Sisters of Providence history.

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