Last year, Claudette Nowell-Philipp, of Illinois, was walking on the motherhouse grounds at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind., when a gift of giving came to mind. “I was down for the dedication and open house for Providence Hall,” she recalled. “Mary McGillicuddy…
“Keep to the narrow path of goodness, and have hope.” (Book of Sirach) “If the sum of Sister Frances Alma’s years is any indication, it is obvious that she heeded well these words from Sirach. Somewhere in her remarkable journey…
Responding to a pope’s request in the early 1960s to minister in Latin America, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods began a mission in Arequipa, Peru, when three sisters journeyed there to minister at the all-boys Colegio de San…
Q. Why did you choose to become a Sister of Providence? A. I was born in Galesburg, Illinois, and the Sisters of Providence went to Galesburg to teach in 1879 at St. Joseph Academy. My mother and her three sisters…
Jesus, source of truth and life,who taught the world the way of salvation,grant us the help we humbly askthrough your faithful servantSaint Mother Theodore Guerin,who spent all her lifeto make you known and loved. May this grace be consolation for…
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, valiant woman of God, intercede for us in our needs. Implore for us through Jesus, the Christ, the gifts of a living faith, abiding hope and steadfast charity, so that through a life of prayer and…
Have you ever thought of Archives as being a ministry? Perhaps not, but according to Sister Marianne Mader, Archives researcher, it is. “[Archives] is a way of connecting with other people,” she notes in the summer 2012 issue of HOPE,…
The Prayer of Reunion has been in use by the Sisters of Providence since before the sisters left France in 1840 to found the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, congregation. Small changes have been made over time, including a change made by…
O God, whose ever-watchful Providence rules all things,we humbly implore youthrough the prayer of the Blessed Virgin Mary,the mother of your son,to remove from us whatever is harmfuland to bestow on us only that which will be helpful.We ask this…
Remember, O most faithful Lady of Providence, that you have been given to us by your Son to be our mother. We entrust to you our labors; bless them. We commend to you our needs; supply them. Show for us…