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First Providence Associate Rite of Commitment: 2007

On Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007, the first-ever group of Providence Candidate-Associates made their commitments to be associates during a Eucharistic Liturgy in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. This first Rite of Commitment took place on the Feast of Our Lady of Providence.

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Sister Barbara Doherty

Little did Barbara Doherty know she was etching the beginning of a career path when she arranged those chairs into a temporary classroom at her grandmother’s home each Sunday. She was the oldest grandchild in the family, and she would gather her cousins together to teach them. “I don’t know what I tried to teach…

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Sister Gerry (Marie Richard) Cavanaugh

“My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God.” (1 John 4:7) “Anyone who knew Sister Gerry Cavanaugh was aware that she loved God, loved life and the people in her life,” said Sister Rita Clare Gerardot in her commentary for Sister Gerry Cavanaugh, who died Oct. 14. Born…

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Sister Joseph Patrice Shea

“I say to you, my dear sisters, that Jesus in the Sacrament of the Eucharist is as tender and as vigilant for us as he was for his apostles.” (Saint Mother Theodore Guerin) “Send your hearts a thousand times a day to our Lord really and truly present in the Holy Sacrament of the Altar.”…

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Sister Ann Veronica Wall

“But Jesus called the children to him and said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.’” (Luke 18:16) “I did not notice until yesterday that the verses that I just read, about Jesus and the little children,…

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Sister Ann Clare Lancaster

“But let me run loose and free, celebrating God’s great work, every bone in my body laughing, singing, ‘God, there’s no one like you.’” (Based on Psalm 40 from “The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language”) “‘We gather in this sacred space where promises are made and dreams unfold. Every service, private prayer, community happening…

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Sister Venard Sequence

“Rejoice always, never cease praying, render constant thanks; such is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thessalonians 5:16) “Anyone who has been around Sister Venard much during the past several years in particular would think that she had these words engraved in her mind and heart for she certainly practiced them. My first…

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Sister Agnes Pauline Meinert

“Whatever you do, do with all your heart. …” (Colossians 3:23) “The words of Isaiah, ‘You are precious in my sight, and I love you,’ and the words of St. Paul, ‘Whatever you do, do with all your heart,’ are most befitting of Sister Agnes Pauline. In the memory of love, we gather and give…

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Sister Frances Finnegan

“Consider, I entreat you, that death sports with human calculations. … Let us always have in hand our lamps burning, that we may not be surprised.” (Saint Mother Theodore Guerin) “I can imagine Sister Frances hearing these words with great peace and saying, ‘I am ready.’ She was deeply prayerful, totally committed to her life…

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Access to clean drinking water

Amit Srivastava of the India Resource Center in March 8, 2006 reports: “The Coca-Cola Company is the largest beverage company in the world, and according to its own admission, the company used 283 billion liters of water in 2004. Any way you look at it, 283 billion liters of water is a lot of water-particularly…

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Coca-Cola: an unsustainable relationship with water and workers

“We commit ourselves: To continue our ongoing conversion of heart and mind, opening ourselves ever more fully to the transforming action of Providence in our lives and our relationships To live as citizens of Earth community with a common future…” (Acts of Chapter, Summer, 2006) Congregation commitment Beginning June 20, 2007, the Sisters of Providence…

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Killer Coke and union busting in Colombia

On July 20, 2001, the United Steelworkers of America and the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) filed a lawsuit in U.S. district court against the Coca-Cola Company, its anchor bottlers, alleging that management at Coca-Cola plants in Colombia have used paramilitaries to crush unions with a campaign of threats, kidnapping and murder. The suit was…

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The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, are a congregation of Roman Catholic women religious (sisters) who minister throughout the United States and Taiwan. Saint Mother Theodore Guerin founded the Sisters of Providence in 1840. The congregation has a mission of being God's Providence in the world by committing to performing works of love, mercy and justice in service among God's people.