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Sister Dawn Tomaszewski

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A Reflection on the Feast Day of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

It is her heart and the witness of her life that gives me solace and comfort at times like these.

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There is a Providence and the Sisters of Providence in Asia are truly its daughters

Throughout the 100-year history of the Sisters of Providence mission in Asia, Sisters of Providence have stayed true to the call from a Provident God to provide loving care and service to people most in need. Over the years, that passion for mission enabled them not only to teach but also to bind up wounds, hide refugees, endure separation and isolation.

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Reflections for Profession of Vows

Corbin, we are happy you have come.

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The 2020 Annual Meeting ZOOM Adventure!

We will commit ourselves wholeheartedly to do what is ours to do now

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A reflection for Feast of Pentecost 2020

God calls us today to do what the disciples did 2,000 years ago – to create communities of love

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This Good Friday: Is COVID-19 the only pandemic about which we need to pray?

May these atrocities never happen again. Let us not abandon each other.

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Sister Dawn Tomaszewski: What it means to be a Catholic sister today

‘My sisters and our associates invigorate me for whatever might lay ahead.’

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We all need a Polish grandpa! We all need the Christ Child.

We all need a Polish grandpa. We all need the Christ Child.

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Come O Wisdom: a reflection on our senior jubilarians

Truly, each of you, in your own way, has been a key figure in the unfolding story of Providence in the life of this Congregation.

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Christmas Letter from Sister Dawn, General Superior

You are the light this Christmas Season! Read Sister Dawn’s Christmas letter sharing how donors help the Sisters of Providence bring the light of Christ’s compassion to those in need.

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Advent 2019: All are welcome or How do we make room in the inn?

In a season where we sometimes can get really focused on what we are going to give, let’s become gracious receivers of God’s hospitality, receptors of the sacred

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A community based on mutual, abiding love

Sister Dawn reflects on the Providence community as we welcome new Providence Associates. May this community be one that mirrors the community established more than 2,000 years ago by Jesus. A community based on mutual, abiding love and not, as with other human institutions, on power or fear.

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Sister Dawn Tomaszewski was elected General Superior of the Sisters of Providence in 2016. She has been a Sister of Providence since 1975. Previously she ministered as a teacher, as communication and development director for the sisters and their ministries and as a member of elected leadership on the general council of the Sisters of Providence.

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