圣·西奥多·盖林母亲奖学金

在西奥多妈妈写的信里, 3月27日, 1854, 塞西尔(Le Fer De La Motte) Choisnet, 她描述了信仰上帝意味着什么. “你不会生气的, 请允许我说, 和重复, 你不应该对未来感到不安. 把你自己温柔地交给上帝吧. Trusting all your affairs to Him and putting them also under the protection of Mary and Joseph, 你会看到一切都会好起来的.”

学生 will be required to attend monthly faith formation meetings with the Campus Minister. These meetings should focus on how God continues to work at the Woods and how the 圣·西奥多·葛兰嬷嬷 cohort can continue to grow in faith through Providence. Guest speakers, panels, and small group discussions can be included in these gatherings. 校园部长将协调这些每月的聚会.

玛丽·勒科嬷嬷, superior general of Saint Mother Theodore’s congregation of Ruillé-sur-Loir in France, knew there was only one person who could undertake such a mission of traveling to a new country to help a diocese grow in the wilderness, 那就是圣. 狄奥多拉. 多年后，圣母玛利亚派她心爱的妹妹去冒险, 圣狄奥多拉给她的上级将军写了一封信. It states, “…they wish to make us pay taxes, which is contrary to the laws of the State. 我们坚决拒绝. It embarrasses them a little to have women resist them and speak to them about the law. 在这个国家，妇女只占家庭的四分之一. 我希望, 通过宗教和教育的影响, 她最终至少会成为“更好的另一半”的一半.’”

学生将被要求保持累积GPA为3.保持良好的纪律. 学生 are required to take these three classes over the course of his/her academic career at the Woods: WC100 HN, TH200 HN, 和WC4xx HN.

“We are not called upon to do all the good possible, but only that which we can do.” These words that 圣·西奥多·葛兰嬷嬷 wrote in a letter to Reverend J. Kundek, a priest in Jasper, Indiana, remind us of the good we are called to do. We realize we can’t do it all, but what we can do, we should do unreservedly.

“Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.” – 圣·西奥多·葛兰嬷嬷 in a letter to Sisters at Saint Mary’s in 1848

学生将被要求每月完成服务时间. 这项服务可以在校内或校外进行. 也有机会作为一个团体来服务.

反射 is part of every wise person’s life, particularly 圣·西奥多·葛兰嬷嬷’s prayer. 在她第一次从法国到印第安纳州的旅途中, 圣狄奥多拉在她的日记中写道, 没有什么能扰乱这孤独的魅力和寂静. 对我们所看到的进行最严肃的反思, 在我们现在的位置上, 我对自己说:生命也是这样过去的, 现在平静, 现在激动, 但最后还是达到了目的. 快乐, ah, thrice happy they who can then look out to the never-ending future with calm and confidence, 谁能投靠神的怀抱呢, 我们幸福的中心.”

圣母西奥多·葛兰写过关于每日反思的文章, “每天晚上，在天气平静的同一时间, I used to go on deck and bless God for all the wonders of His creation. I loved to consider the care of God’s Providence which extends even to the little fishes.”

学生 will be required to complete and submit a 反射 on their experience as a 圣·西奥多·葛兰嬷嬷 scholar at the end of each semester.

在到达印第安纳州的森林后不久, Sister Theodore became known as Mother Theodore to the other five Sisters who traveled with her. 姐妹们面临着一项艰巨的任务, 只要信靠神的旨意, 他们开始执行面前的任务. 意识到对宗教指导和教育的巨大需求, 这对姐妹于7月4日开办了一所女子学院, 1841. 到1842年，普罗维登斯姐妹学校在印第安纳州的贾斯珀成立.， St。. 房间,生病了.

在圣母西奥多·葛兰的指导下, who received the role of “Mother” through her demeanor and servant heart, the Sisters of Providence were running the schools at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and Jasper plus these other schools in Indiana: Vincennes, St. 彼得的(现在的蒙哥马利), 麦迪逊, 韦恩堡, 泰瑞豪特, 埃文斯维尔, 北麦迪逊, Lanesville and Columbus by the time of Mother Theodore’s death on May 14, 1856. Mother Theodore also opened two orphanages – one for girls and one for boys – in Vincennes. 另外, the Congregation had grown from six sisters and four postulants to 67 professed members, 九名新手和七名修士.

Upper-class students who are recipients of the 圣·西奥多·葛兰嬷嬷 scholarship will be encouraged to mentor a freshman recipient of the same scholarship. The mentor should think about sharing his/her faith and the ways of the Woods, 引导学生在课堂内外走向成功.