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Convent Cemetery
The Sisters of Providence Convent Cemetery is where many of our sisters have been laid to rest. In 2020, the Sisters of Providence opened the Providence Community Cemetery, a columbarium adjacent to the Convent Cemetery where people with a special connection to the Congregation can have cremains interred. Learn more about the Providence Community Cemetery. Visit the cemetery Maps of the cemetery are available in the Providence Hall Phone Room and at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center. Tours of the...
Introducing Providence Community Cemetery
...you honor your loved ones during a difficult time. It is now possible for people with a special connection to the Congregation to have cremains interred at the new Providence Community Cemetery columbarium at the Woods. You and your loved ones can have cremains interred in a naturally beautiful, serene environment that will encourage visitors and families to return time and again to pay their respects. Contents Frequently asked questions about the Providence Community Cemetery Who can be interred at...
General Superiors
...Mary Cleophas prepared herself to meet her Maker, dying on the Feast of St. John, Dec. 27, 1928. She was buried in the convent cemetery on Dec. 31, 1928. On April 4, 1951 her remains were transferred to a vault in the crypt of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. On July 19, 1998, her remains and those of Sisters Aloysia Foley, Mary Joseph Le Fer and St. Francis Xavier Le Fer, were returned to their graves in the cemetery....
Resting on holy ground: new cremains burial options at the Woods
...a columbarium? A columbarium with its series of niches is a place to respectfully inter the cremains of the deceased. At Providence Community Cemetery the columbarium will be enclosed in an outdoor, above-ground wall, which, will in time encircle the Sisters of Providence cemetery. What will be provided if I choose to be interred at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods? Providence Community Cemetery will provide a small, open-sided chapel for mourners to gather and celebrate a committal service. We will provide an appropriate...
Good Shepherd Chapel formally blessed
Sisters of Providence, joined by friends and neighbors, gathered Sunday, Aug. 30 for the dedication and blessing of the Good Shepherd Chapel at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. The chapel is part of what is now called the Providence Community Cemetery, located in the southwest area of the Motherhouse grounds, on a small knoll across from the Sisters of Providence Cemetery. Specially designed columbaria have been built in proximity to the chapel where cremains will be placed in an urn and laid...
Must sees
...you’ll notice the humble furnishings. The Log Cabin Chapel was built with assistance from the Vigo County Parks and Recreation Department, Terre Haute Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, and inmates of the Terre Haute Correctional Facility. Read more about this rustic chapel Convent Cemetery As you walk through this peaceful space, we invite you to celebrate the lives of over 2,100 women who dedicated themselves to serving others as Sisters of Providence. Feel free to mediate, pray, or just enjoy the...
The Woods continues to call: Woods Community Cemetery
...Providence Associate, stated, “I am happy to be a grateful and faithful follower of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin.” Holy place For others who have chosen Providence Community Cemetery for cremains interment, the place itself — Saint Mary-of-the-Woods — is the attraction. SMWC graduate and former Lourdes health care staff member, Angela Yildiz, says, “Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is my favorite place on earth. … When I learned of the community cemetery, I knew I wanted to be there after my death. As...
So just what is Providence Community Cemetery?
Providence Community Cemetery is the latest outreach ministry of the Sisters of Providence. After two years of research, consultation and planning, Providence Community Cemetery became a reality in May 2020. The newly constructed Good Shepherd Chapel stands on a small knoll across from the Sisters of Providence Cemetery. The chapel will serve as a gathering space where those interring loved ones may choose to hold a service. So far, the adjacent columbarium has 56 of 192 niches reserved for interment...
Providence Community Cemetery blessed
...where Father Bernie served for many years, joined the sisters for the dedication. Several requests for interment in Providence Community Cemetery have been processed in recent months. If you have a significant and long-standing relationship with the Sisters of Providence and are interested in further information, go to CommunityCemetery.SistersofProvidence.org and fill out the “Interest” form. Or call Sister Ann Casper, Providence Community Cemetery minister, at 812-535-2828, to express your interest. (Originally published in the Winter 2020 issue of HOPE magazine.)...
Donna Butler
...in elementary education, parish ministry, diocesan social justice, as well as the Congregation’s liturgy office and archives department. She also ministered as the director of the Providence Volunteer Ministry for the Congregation. Currently, she ministers in residential services at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sister Donna said she grew up in a “cemetery.” Her favorite sports team is the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Pomeroy basketball squad and her favorite movie is “The Horse Whisperer.” She enjoys playing cards, reading, playing the piano and walking outdoors....
Ann Casper
Sister Ann, formerly Sister Kenneth Ann, is a native of Huntington, Indiana. Sister Ann recently retired as the executive director for Mission Advancement for the Sisters of Providence. Currently, she is the Congregation’s Providence Community Cemetery Minister. Sister Ann entered the Congregation on January 4, 1956. She professed final vows on August 15, 1963. She graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in social studies. She also has a master’s degree in secondary education administration from Indiana State...
A rest for weary bones
...for a cemetery, a new cemetery — its current location — was prepared in the spring of 1861. Nearly three years later, on Jan. 14, 1864, Mother Theodore’s coffin was raised from the ground and reinterred in a circular plot that was once the center of the current cemetery. With the consecration of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in 1907, Mother Theodore’s bones were exhumed and transferred once again, this time to the tomb area in the crypt of...