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Volunteer college students #Represent @theWoods!

By Sarah Knoblock | March 20, 2023 |

‘I enjoy (volunteering) because I felt like I was helping the sisters out and making a difference.’

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My life with the Violin

By Sister Carol Nolan | December 13, 2021 |

‘Happiness is something to be practiced like a violin.’

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Sisters to celebrate Foundation Day

By Jason Moon | October 6, 2021 |

Masks will be required for those who wish to attend the Mass

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Reflections for Oct. 3, 2021

By Sister Dawn Tomaszewski | October 4, 2021 |

Saint Mother Theodore, pray for us

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College honors General Council for ‘Aspiring Higher’

By Sisters of Providence | September 21, 2021 |

‘We are certainly proud of their accomplishments – their growth in enrollment, land and buildings as well as their dedication to the strong academic and religious values of those who have gone before them.’

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Stories from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Historic District

By Jason Moon | July 21, 2021 |

“We’re grateful to the Swope Art Gallery for allowing both the Sisters of Providence and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College to share the hidden treasures with the greater Wabash Valley.”

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Sister Connie Kramer receives Frances Murphy Rumely Award

By Jason Moon | June 4, 2021 |

‘Receiving this award is indeed both a great honor and a privilege for me personally.’

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Poems from Sister Mary Theodosia Mug

By Jason Moon | March 23, 2021 |

We wanted to share some of Sister Mary Theodosia’s poems with you.

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Remembering Sister Barbara Doherty

By Ezra (Kyle) Meadors | August 21, 2020 |

Sister Barbara Doherty has been a lamp, a lifeboat and a ladder in my life at various times throughout the years. When I received the news that she had been anointed on July 25, I started to write down some of my most treasured memories of Barbara.

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Reflections for Foundation Day 2019

By Sister Dawn Tomaszewski | October 23, 2019 |

Well, the fact that we are still here 179 years later is certainly testimony to the Providence of God. It is also testimony to all those sisters in the U.S. as well as in China and Taiwan AND to the many other Dotties, Mandys and Margies in our larger community of Providence who have not let appearances keep them from doing good, doing lots of good.

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A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

By Sister Dawn Tomaszewski | October 3, 2019 |

‘Give me, give us, this heart of Mother Theodore with which to treasure the power and promise of the cross.’

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The joys of music

By Sharon Boyle | July 17, 2019 |

One morning, I said hello to a Sister of Providence resident, merely as a greeting. As I started to leave, she asked me to stay.

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Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College is the first ministry of the Sisters of Providence, founded by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and her companion sisters just months after they arrived in the United States in 1840. A vibrant college community located at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, the Sisters continue to sponsor the college.

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