Caritas Newsletter 2009

Winter 2009

~ Christmas message from the Leadership Team (Sr Margaret Botch)
~ 2009 Mother Joseph Award (Ruth Palnick, Spokane)
~ Profiles of new leadership (2010-14)
~ Hearing God’s call – Marita Capili, candidate
~ Providence Companion – JoAnn Kelly
~ The Gift of Service – WA/MT region
~ Annual appeal
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Briefs

• Renewal of vows (Sr Vilma Franco)
• Rosa Sen Nguyen welcomed into novitiate
• Witness for Peace (Sr Fran Stacey in Honduras)
• Provincial Penguins (Halloween)
• Provincial staff honors Blessed Emilie Gamelin
• Gift for SJR (MEG statue)
• New Providence Associates in LA

~ Vocation ad
~ Missioning ceremony for new PH&S sponsors

Fall 2009

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~ Sister Jo Ann Showalter visits UN as UNANIMA delegate to CSD-17
~ Hong Nga Nguyen enters novitiate
~ Sister Suzette Bautista tranfers vows
~ Vocation Discernment Retreat 2009
~ Sisters welcome two pre-candidates
~ Vocation ad
~ 2010-2014 Provincial Council elected
~ Chapter of Affairs 2009: Engaged in Our Deep Story

~ Briefs

• Walk of the Heroines (Portland)
• Organ pipes from Providence Heights find new home
• Sister Karen Hawkins completes master's in transforming spirituality
• Providence Ministries missioning of sponsors scheduled
• A Cause to Dine For
• Portland library named for Sister Pauline Lemaire
• Women & Spirit exhibit schedule

~ Marita Capili accepted as candidate
~ Obits

• Annette Parent, SP
• Nellie "Marguerite" O'Connor, SP
• Jeanne Parent, SP

~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Providence Women Reunion 2009

Summer 2009

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~ Sisters of Providence invite lay people to ministry sponsorship
~ Providence Ministries sponsors? profiles and photos
~ Sister Lucille Dean named new chair for PH&S board
~ 2009 Jubilarians (14)
~ Sisters makes return visit to El Salvador with Spokane parish delegation
~ Portland Providence Associates make tradition of giving to El Salvador
~ Apostolic Visitation process begins
~ Come & See vocation discernment retreat ad
~ Briefs

• Sisters of Providence inducted into Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
• Blessings for new babies (Greater Seattle PAs event)
• Staffer Jaime Beytebiere bakes at Sojourner Place
• Sr. Jane Dufault celebrates 104 years
• Northwest Women's Conference
• Third-floor remodel of St. Joseph Residence is blessed
• Fund in Montreal (leadership meeting photo)
• Women & Spirit traveling exhibit sponsored by LCWR opens in Cincinnati

Please Remember in Prayer
~ Obits

• Adeline Johnston, PA
• Barbara Schiller, SP
• Maureen Hurley, SP

~ Providence High School honors Ray and Carmen Ferrante

Spring 2009

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~ Nurses - religious and lay - take the spotlight at legacy dinner
~ Editor's note: Caritas goes "green"
~ Sisters launch human trafficking awareness bus ad campaign
~ Thanks to donors
~ Deling Fernando, SP, joins Vocation Team
~ Vocation ad
~ Kennedy honors - Seattle high school dedicates The Dillman Center in Sister's honor ~ Sisters who have served at Kennedy include ~ Briefs

• Two more Daughters of Mary join the family at SJR
• Sister Anna Loan makes temporary return to Vietnam
• UNANIMA International Committee on Environment (Sr. JoAnn Showalter)
• Duwamish Tribe opens longhouse and cultural center
• Two centenarians celebrate at SJR (Srs. Eva O?Hare and Jeanne Parent)
• Three new Providence Associates in Spokane (George & Rita Waldref and Julie Wokasch, OSB)
• Friday mornings in El Salvador: Little people learn through play
• Remember to listen in (Sacred Heart Radio)

~ Emilie Gamelin Mission Fund donations 2008
~ Obits

• Nancy MacLean, SP
• Dorothy A. Warren, PA
• Eleanor McElwee, PA
• Madeleine Monica Fortier, SP

~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Come and See ~ Introducing Huong Nguyen and Marie-Thrse Gnamazo