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We can all use a little help with prayer sometimes. The Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates hope to help inspire you! Whether it’s the perfect Saint Mother Theodore Guerin quote or a prayer written by a Sister of Providence, let the right words bring Providence into your life. Browse the prayers below or if you’re looking for something specific, use the “Topics” search in the search area.

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Topic: unity

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“A Sister of Providence cannot go to heaven alone.”

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“...unite our actions, however little they may be, with those of [Jesus]; unite our prayers with his prayers, our work with his work, our meals, our repose with his.”

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“Everything in us seemed to change except charity, which united us to God.”

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“I fully enter into your difficulties, this is the same as telling you that I suffer with you. Need I tell you that I pray for you?”

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“It was all over for us, if the Lord had not come to our aid.”

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“Besides the admirable union that exists between persons of different nationalities, of dispositions so opposite, some well informed, others without education, there is also...a great spirit of faith, of piety and a confidence in God which goes as far, I believe, as it can go.”

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“Let us keep ever united in Our Lord. When we love one another in [God], we love [God] better.”

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“Come to Saint Mary's...to give me the consolation of seeing you all, fervent and united, which is the greatest happiness that I can have in this world.”

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“...nothing can rob you of your joy when you will be reunited to those in heaven from whom you were obliged to be separated on Earth.”

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“If all but understood the power of that one word charity; how it unites and binds and welds together.”

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“In our union with you will be our strength, and even, I may say, the source of our success.”

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“...you yourself are often the cause of what you suffer. And I say it also in order that you may endeavor to become more amiable and loving, more united to Our Lord...”

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Quote of the day

December 9
“When will you be firm and always yourself? But you are exactly like the weathercock on a steeple, ready to turn with every wind. In conclusion, I hope grace will triumph finally and that you will become its conquest.”
– Saint Mother Theodore Guerin