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St. Joseph Lake blessing
...Joseph’s lake blessing. Sisters standing with the new St. Joseph’s statue. Sisters standing with the new St. Joseph’s statue. Sisters standing with the new St. Joseph’s statue. Sisters standing with the new St. Joseph’s statue. Sisters standing with the new St. Joseph’s statue. Sisters standing with the new St. Joseph’s statue. Sisters standing with the new St. Joseph’s statue. Sisters standing with the new St. Joseph’s statue. Sisters standing with the new St. Joseph’s statue. Sisters standing with the new...
You can help bring a happy ending to restore St. Joseph’s Lake
St. Joseph Lake at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 2018. We’re writing a story about St. Joseph’s Lake here at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. We need your help. We’ve got the beginning and middle written. We just need help with the ending. Would you like to help us now? The beginning Our story begins in 1922. St. Joseph’s Lake didn’t exist, but the Sisters of Providence needed more water for the campus. Sister Mary Cyril relates that Terre Haute Water Works could not supply...
Warning, this album may contain photos of sunbathing nuns
...Meyers. Sister Jean Fuqua mowing the lawn at St. Joseph’s Lake several years ago. The final shovel-fulls of dirt are removed allowing the water to move into the newly expanded area of the lake in 1981. Sister Bernice Kuper relaxes with a book in a hammock at St. Joseph’s Lake years ago. Sister Jean Fuqua’s typed note from the St. Joseph Lake scrapbook regarding the infirmary picnic in 1982. Trucking the sisters in for the 1981 infirmary picnic at St....
Josephine Paolinelli
Sister Josephine is a native of Chicago. Her final ministry was in health care in Northlake, Illinois. Sister Josephine, formerly Sister Louise Joseph, entered the Congregation on February 2, 1956. She professed final vows on August 15, 1963. She graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in education. She also has a master’s degree in administration from the University of Notre Dame. Here is her complete ministry In Indiana: Teacher, St. Joseph, Jasper (1960-61); Teacher, St. Patrick, Indianapolis...
St. Joseph Lake history photo album
...Marie Patrice Cleary, Ann O’Hara, Luke Crawford and Cathy Buster. Trucking the sisters in for the 1981 infirmary picnic at St. Joseph’s Lake. Sister Jean Fuqua’s typed note from the St. Joseph Lake scrapbook regarding the infirmary picnic in 1982. Sister Jean Fuqua mowing the lawn at St. Joseph’s Lake several years ago. Sister Cecilia Ann Miller swimming at St. Joseph Lake in the 1980s. Sister Jeanne Knoerle ice skates on St. Joseph lake in 1978. Sunset at the lake....
Fuqua Park evolves
Sister Jean Fuqua has spent decades overseeing and organizing the beautification and refurbishment of St. Joseph’s Lake at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. It was the autumn of 1971. Standing amid weeds and dead tree limbs by a small lake, a priest friend of Sister Jean Fuqua’s visiting Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on a quail hunting trip envisioned something more. “This site could make a nice recreation spot for your sisters. Jean, you should work on that.” So Sister Jean did. She began a decades-long...
Sister Dorothy Gartland (formerly Sister Margaret Eugene)
...as our teacher and our mentor. She was a disciplinarian, hard as nails, but with a fairness and a nurturing/caring heart of gold.” In her teaching it seems as if Dorothy walked in the footsteps of the Wonderful Counselor referred to in the Isaiah reading. A fun fact to know and tell. St. Joseph convent was across the street from St. Margaret Hospital. During the famous blizzard of 1967, the Sisters would cross the street to help alleviate the staff...
Joseph Clare McCarthy
Sister Joseph Clare was born Josephine Mary McCarthy on Oct. 28, 1921. She died on Dec. 12, 2011. She was 90 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 72 years. Sister Joseph Clare entered the Congregation on Jan. 18, 1939. She professed first and final vows on Aug. 15, 1941 and 1947, respectively. Sister Joseph Clare began her ministry in education in 1940 at St. Mary’s Village School. For more than 50 years, she taught at other...
A ‘Happy Endings’ update on St. Joseph’s Lake
...honor of the 2021 restoration of St. Joseph’s Lake. The Feast of St. Joseph – March 19 – in this Year of St. Joseph, marks the perfect occasion for expressing our gratitude for the many generous donors who bring a happy ending to the wonderful story of St. Joseph’s Lake at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Thank you for your generous support for the project! You may recall from our Winter 2021 article in “HOPE Magazine” that we reported having pulled money for...
Patricia Geis
...Program (1979 – 1980) St. Cornelius, Chicago: Grade 1, Co-Director/Personal Growth Program (1980 – 1981) St. Columbkille Day Nursery, Chicago: Director (1981 – 1983) St. Dennis School, Lockport, Illinois: Grade 1 (1983 – 1989) Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts: Sabbatical (1989 – 1990) St. Zachary School, Des Plaines, Illinois: K & Pre-School (1990 – 1999) Mount St. Joseph, Lake Zurich, Illinois: Developmental Instructor (1999 – 2000) Santa Maria Del Popolo School, Mundelein, Illinois: K (2000 – 2001) St. Charles Borromeo...
General Superiors
...the Congregation, St. Philip, which is now St. Mel, as well as the first mission to the East Coast (St. Rose in Chelsea, Mass.). Under Mother Euphrasie’s leadership, building of the Church of the Immaculate Conception began in 1886. The church was not completed until 1907. Despite asking to be relieved of her position due to failing health, Mother Euphrasie was re-elected in 1886. On Feb. 7, 1889, our Motherhouse burned down and Mother Euphrasie died mere months later –...
Josephine Bryan
Sister Josephine is a native of Hollywood, Maryland. Currently, she ministers as a volunteer at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista, Calif. Sister Josephine, formerly Sister Joseph Anthony, entered the Congregation on July 22. She professed final vows on August 15, 1963. She graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in education. She also has a bachelor’s of science in nursing from St. Xavier University in Chicago and a master’s of science in medical and surgical nursing from...