August 8, 2014

Sister of Providence professes first vows on June 29 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods

After professing her first vows as a Sister of Providence at Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on June 29, Providence Sister Arrianne Whitaker, right, poses with Sisters of Providence Director of Novices Sister Janice Smith. (Submitted photo)

After professing her first vows as a Sister of Providence at Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on June 29, Providence Sister Arrianne Whitaker, right, poses with Sisters of Providence Director of Novices Sister Janice Smith. (Submitted photo)

Criterion staff report

On June 29, Providence Sister Arrianne Whitaker professed first vows as a member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in St. Mary-of-the-Woods. The profession of these vows concluded her novitiate, a two-year formation program with the congregation.

During this first year of the novitiate program, she studied Scripture and spirituality, participated in communal and private prayer and continued discerning a possible call to religious life through participation in a variety of programs, seminars and other projects.

The second year of the novitiate is referred to as the mission novice year. Novices live the everyday life of a fully professed sister during this time, but they have not yet professed vows as a member of the congregation.

Sister Arrianne currently ministers as a teacher to toddlers at a child day care facility in Indianapolis.

She is a native of Germantown, Wis., and is the daughter of Dr. Michael and Kathleen Whittaker.

She attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis., where she earned a bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences and a minor in psychology.
 

(For more information about the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, log on to spsmw.org.) †

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