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Sister Regina Gallo approached her recent skydiving experience through a spiritual lens: The safety of my “normal” prayer space with my lit candles and cup of tea or warm milk was gone. I had to trust my tandem instructor literally with my life. I had to trust my God and angels to guide me every second of the way. The biggest piece … I was NOT in control of anything. I simply had to trust and surrender; and it wasn’t simple.
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I attended the All Soul’s mass on November 2nd to remember a very close friend and one of our own SPs that recently died, Sister Jane Marie Osterholt. It was during that service that this blog post started to evolve. I, along with many others, stood in the back of church holding candles, which represented…
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Each June we celebrate Father’s Day and we honor those men in our lives who either happen to be our birth father or those that have played a “father” role to us. First and foremost, I must say that God could not have given me a better father and I could not be more grateful…
Sister Regina Gallo has been a Sister of Providence since 2001.
Sister Regina has ministered as a Bereavement counselor in the Elmwood Park, Illinois, area. She is currently studying for an advanced degree.