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Our Lady of Providence High School, Clarksville, Indiana
...on Sept. 12, 1951. Within a decade, the student population exceeded 800. In 1973, there were 18 parishes of the New Albany Deanery that purchased the school from the sisters. Providence Junior High was created in 1989 to accommodate Deanery parishes without elementary schools and/or without grades seven and eight. In 1995, the president-principal model was enacted and Gerald K. Wilkinson, ’58, became the first president of Providence. By 1996, the Our Lady of Providence Junior-Senior High Board of Directors...
Laudato Si’ Blooms in Oak Park Parishes
...hope to expand the variety of vendors and add other attractions. The collaboration between our parish and Ascension-St. Edmund parish has been rewarding. We meet together quarterly. The other facilitator and I attend both parish committee meetings. The exchange of ideas and support makes the initiative and projects possible. Next on the docket is offering a film series about Earth centered concerns and actions. Laudato Si’ is alive and well in the Oak Park parishes! Visitors at the Sustainability Fair....
Paul C. Schulte High School, Terre Haute, Indiana
...Terre Haute had been petitioning Archbishop Paul C. Schulte for a new high school. The archbishop approved the name Paul C. Schulte High School on Jan. 8, 1952. Ground was broken on Nov. 16, 1952, for a co-educational Catholic high school that would serve all the parishes of the city. School and convent were placed under the patronage of The Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the convent received that name. A temporary convent was readied until a permanent one could...
Education
Sister Joni fist-bumping St. Patrick School students. Perhaps you were taught by the Sisters of Providence. Since the founding of the Congregation in 1840, the sisters have been educators in Catholic schools and parishes in the US, the District of Columbia and Taiwan. Mother Theodore as a young sister taught in various French parishes before agreeing to come to the US to help educate Catholic immigrants, in response to a plea from the bishop of Vincennes, Indiana. “Love the children...
Merging parishes and creating community
...in small groups of people from the merging parishes and making coil vessels. Different colors of clay can symbolize the unique traditions and customs of the parishes that come together to create a new community. Beyond parish meetings dealing with the business of combining the parishes, opportunities to be together in creative and social gatherings will stimulate and foster meaningful relationships. The foundation for growth depends on our respect and appreciation of one another. We will come to relish the...
Joan Frame
...in parish ministry in Indianapolis, for two years as pastoral associate at St. Simone, and as a pastoral minister for nine years at Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. She also ministered as a GED and ELS instructor at the Hispanic Education Center in Indianapolis before volunteering for two schools and parishes in Indianapolis for four more years. She returned to the Woods in 2006. A newspaper article referred to her as “a living witness to the Providence of...
Marianne McGriffin
...15, 1946 and 1951, respectively. Her teaching ministry began in 1946 at St. Mary Carmelite, Joliet, Ill. She taught in many other Illinois schools as well as Indiana. In the 1970s, Sister Marianne ministered in religious education at many parishes, and in 1989, she founded Open SPaces, a center where body, mind and spirit could come together in creativity, reflection, prayer and praise. Sister Marianne’s book, “Reflections in Clay: Mirror of Truth,” documented the workshops and wisdom of Open SPaces....
Ellen Marie Stafford
...and final vows on Jan. 23, 1937 and 1943, respectively. Her ministry in teaching began in 1937 at St. John the Baptist, Whiting, Indiana. She taught at other schools in Indiana, as well as schools in Illinois. From 1975 to 1998, she was a parish visitor for parishes in Illinois and from 1998 to 2004, she provided service at the convent in Galesburg, Illinois. She returned to the Woods in 2004. She was known for her quiet and undemanding presence....
Rita Clare Gerardot
...in 1947 and final vows in 1952. Sister Rita Clare said she spent 30 years in teaching and administration at the elementary school level, as well as 12 years in pastoral care (in parishes and Sisters of Providence health care). She also ministered for three years as a receptionist at Mother Theodore Guerin High School. Her final ministry was in prayer at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Of the students she taught, Sister Rita Clare said, “I still keep in touch with some...
Jean Kenny
...DePaul University. She also has a master of divinity degree from Loyola University in Chicago. Of her ministries, Sister Jean has served as a teacher in many locations, including Dean of Students at St. Benedict High School. She also ministered as a pastoral associate in a handful of parishes and a guidance counselor. She taught Duke University men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski’s niece at Mother Theodore Guerin High School in the 1970s and her favorite movie is “The Shawshank Redemption.”...
Mary Moloney
...As a teacher, she has ministered at Our Lady of Providence High School in Clarksville, Ind.; Ladywood and Ladywood-St. Agnes in Indianapolis; and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Sister Mary said she did her CPE training at Indiana University Medical Center and in 1976, traveled to Oklahoma with Sisters Gilchrist Conway and Dorothy Rasche, where they ministered in seven parishes. After ministering in Oklahoma, she ministered as the Director of Evangelization at Divine Savior in Norridge, Ill. Currently, Sister Mary ministers in...
Mary Lou Ruck
...of subjects in middle schools and colleges. She said she taught Language Arts and theology to her older students. In addition, she has ministered as a pastoral administrator and pastoral associate in several parishes. In her health care ministry, Sister Mary Lou said she provides Reiki and healing touch energy treatments, and she is “learning all I can about dementia and serving these folks with the aid of music.” Sister Mary Lou enjoys peoples’ stories “whether I am reading them,...