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We can all use a little help with prayer sometimes. The Sisters of Providence 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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“She encouraged me by her example and good counsels; she reproved me for my faults with a charity and courage which my brusqueness and my haughty and imperious character had never discouraged; in a word, she was everything to me.”

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“Particularly I admire two virtues rare in our days: a profound humility and immense charity.”

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“Oh, how happy you would be if you could see all the good that your Daughters of the Woods are doing and the good spirit which animates them.”

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“I think that despite her poor health she will accomplish much good.”

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“Show our students how sweetly tender is the Providence of God...”

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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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“If you could have trees planted around the edge of your lot, I think it would be well.”

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“The church is as full as an egg.”

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“Do not recoil from any sacrifice for the sake of your work.”

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“Both of us together are not worth two cents.”

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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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“But our hope is in the providence of God, which has protected us until the present, and which will provide, somehow, for our future needs...”

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June 10
“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.”
– Saint Mother Theodore Guerin