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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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“And rest assured, my dear daughters, if you lean with all your weight upon Providence, you will find yourselves well supported.”

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“And from that happy day not one has passed in which our prayers have not been offered up to God...”

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“You must also accustom yourselves, my dear children, to bear in mind that if the faults of others displease us, ours also torment them.”

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“Further on vegetation flourished with rich and wild luxuriance; orange and lemon trees, loaded with the finest fruit. Altogether it was a delightful country.”

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“Yes, God truly makes use of the least likely instruments to procure [God's] glory.”

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“...for what [God] asks of us is only the heart.”

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“I must tell you with simplicity, my good Father, that this time I feel myself overwhelmed...”

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“Sister St. Francis Xavier is necessary for my existence. She is my oldest daughter, the friend of my soul, which she reads as I do hers. I have need of her advice, of her example. I will even say of her little scoldings.”

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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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“Happy, ah, thrice happy are they who can look forward to the eternal future with calm and confidence, who can throw themselves with love into the bosom of God, the center of felicity!”

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“Never scold nor punish more than the fault deserves. Children naturally love justice even when it punishes them.”

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“Obtain for me that my death may not be an unprovided one and that I may always be ready to say to the Lord when he calls, "My God, here I am."”

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Quote of the day

April 25
“All love one another tenderly, and this consolation is well calculated to support us in the pains we now suffer and in those which await us.”
– Saint Mother Theodore Guerin