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“It’s a deep, deep going inside yourself to see who you are called to be.” Providence Associate Debbie Dillow tells what she loves about being a Providence Associate of the…

Pilgrimage begins on Tuesday, June 7

This is my view as I write. I can sometimes take the sounds of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods for granted, but in this moment I am paying attention to every bird’s song, frog’s croak and bee and mosquito buzz.

My Irish Mother introduced me to devotion to Mary the day I was born by naming me Marie Louise. She had a great and lifelong devotion to Mary and was happy when our teachers, the Sisters of Providence, referred to her as Our Lady of Providence.

In 2006, Sister Marie Kevin traveled to Rome for the canonization of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

‘I had a strong feeling we would hear from him’

‘The thrill and excitement of car racing got in my bones and hasn’t left me.’

As the tourist/pilgrim continues through the Shrine area after leaving the Shrine Chapel, she or he seems sent out by Saint Mother Theodore “as birds from the nest” into the world of today and is introduced to our various ministries. At the very end as they are leaving there we all are – Sisters and Associates – waving goodbye to them. They also are being sent out to carry on Saint Mother Theodore’s mission and the ministry in their own lives and their own areas of the world. Linden Leaf Gifts gives them the opportunity to take back with them a tangible reminder of this experience.

Sisters Thomasine Griffin and Catherine Livers, both now deceased, attended the Beatification of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

When will this end?

So many parents, wives, husbands and children mourn and remember loved ones who have died in wars far from home or very near home.