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Learning from History: Taking Providence into the World
...Louis was initially settled by the French and it grew substantially with an influx of German and Irish immigrants. “My own family were pioneer settlers in Indiana. My great-great grandparents are on the 1820 census for Vigo County. Mother Theodore was an immigrant, and my Aunt Dorothy’s grandfather, Logan Hagan, an Irish immigrant, was Mother Theodore’s carriage driver,” Sister Mary Ann said. Sister Mary Ann teaches history at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis. A Catholic Viewpoint Sister Mary Ann says...
Advent 2018: So many possibilities in the waiting
...the required census that caused Mary and Joseph’s long trip to Bethlehem. We’ll see in our mind’s eye their search for a place to stay and finding a stable. Yes, familiar and comforting stories — stories that end well. This is the upside of Advent waiting. We can see how waiting paid off. We can remember our own experiences when waiting turned out well. What about the downside, the waiting parts Mary and Joseph endured that we know nothing about,...
October 22, 2023: Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Matthew 22:15-21 The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech. They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. And you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion, for you do not regard a person’s status. Tell us, then, what is your opinion: Is it lawful to pay the census tax to...
Being ‘Stickered’
...have a special message on the back of a label; my label last Saturday was the word ‘GORGEOUS,’ so I looked out at the autumn colored trees and whispered: ‘You are gorgeous; thank you for being you.’” On the opposite end of the question is Sister Janice Smith, “NO! I don’t look forward to being stickered. I am always so afraid that I will forget to go get them that it generally is another stressor to me. But it does help...
White Violet Center earns ‘Real Organic Project’ designation
...of enforcement of some vital USDA Organic standards to protect soil health and animal welfare, organic farmers rallied together to fight to protect the integrity of the organic label. This is what originally motivated WVC Farm Manager John-Michael Elmore to apply for this certification. “We (WVC) are already certified organic, so this became an extension of that. USDA organic certification is getting manipulated by large agri-businesses, and doesn’t fully represent the original intent of the organic movement,” John-Michael said. “While it’s still an important regulatory standard,...
Season of Creation 2022: Fair Trade and Climate Change
...Industry Consider buying second hand clothing, repairing and repurposing clothing, participating in a clothing swap, etc. Some stores that sell Fair Trade clothing include Athleta, Linden Leaf Gifts, Mata Traders, and MarketPlace: Handwork of India, Patagonia. Some brands such as Patagonia have a second-hand label – theirs is Worn Well. Check other stores and buy second hand through them. For tips on being fashionable inexpensively, click here. Read The Conscious Closet: A Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good...
Sister Mary Ann Stewart
...I was a very young girl. – Sister Mary Ann “I can’t remember when I didn’t want to be a Sister of Providence, even from the time I was a very young girl,” Sister Mary Ann said. As a history teacher, Sister Mary Ann might be expected to have a good grasp of the past, but she had a pretty firm grip on her future as well. “My family settled in Terre Haute about 1820, according to the census. I...
Sister Barbara Ann Zeller: modern-day foundress
...account. After taking a census, for example, Sister Barbara recognized that many residents of the Villas, assistant living/skilled care communities, would soon need memory care. So we are working to build a unit for them so they will not have to move when that time comes. Here, the work we do — person centered healing ministries — align with the ideas of love, mercy and justice that Sisters of Providence talk about.” On Sept. 19 of this year, those served...
Teaching, healing and loving as a Sister of Providence
...while he HAD been Catholic it meant absolutely nothing to him now. In his life there was no room for either God or religion. This man was also terminally ill. I’ll call him Mr. O. The God who had seen me through those 58 sixth graders would surely not let me or my new friend down as he neared death. As his illness progressed, so did his hospitalizations. Every time I saw his name on the census list I went...
Leadership Team shares statement on death penalty
...Sisters Mary Beth Klingel, Jeanne Hagelskamp and Jenny Howard, General Councilors References: New Low of 49 % in U.S. Say Death Penalty Applied Fairly (Gallup – News, October 2018) – https://news.gallup.com/poll/243794/new-low-say-death-penalty-applied-fairly.aspx Catholic Mobilizing Network Condemns Resumption of Federal Executions (Catholic Mobilizing Network – News Release, July 25, 2019) – https://catholicsmobilizing.org/in-the-news/catholic-mobilizing-network-condemns-resumption-federal-executions Pope Francis calls for abolishing death penalty and life imprisonment (National Catholic Reporter – October 23, 2014) – https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/francis-chronicles/pope-francis-calls-abolishing-death-penalty-and-life-imprisonment Federal Capital Habeas Project https://2255.capdefnet.org/General-Statistics/Federal-Death-Row-Population-By-Race U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045218...
2020 Christmas letter from General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
Dear Friends, Imagine the journey of Mary and Joseph of Nazareth more than 2,000 years ago. A newly betrothed couple, they were forced to register for a census in a town about 90 miles away from their home. Mary was nine months pregnant. It was a cold, long road to Bethlehem. Difficulties and dangers were certainly their constant companions even before they took to the road. But we know the end of their story, don’t we? “The people who walked...
A year of St. Joseph, family protector
...spare Mary from further embarrassment. Joseph’s fears and trepidation are relieved by a dream of an angel comforting him and reassuring him that Mary would be his wife and Jesus “will save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21. He accepts and becomes a loving husband to Mary. Responsibility On their way to Bethlehem for the census, Mary is about to give birth. Where can they find a room with so many people in Bethlehem all looking for lodgings? Joseph...