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Welcome to our blog. Here, we will share with you stories of our lives as Sisters of Providence. We invite Providence Associates to write in this space also. We hope you find these posts enjoyable and inspirational.

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Journals and Letters week 51: Running toward Jesus

"She heard her Jesus … calling her by name, and she ran towards Him with the greatest love and without a particle of fear.” What a beautiful image to hang on to as we reflect about the circumstances of our own death or that of a loved one!

Sister Ann Casper
September 25, 2021
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, SMTG Book Study
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Thoughts on National Daughters Day

One thing leads to another

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Celebrating 200 years of Catholicism in North Carolina

Sister Betty and Sister Kathy were overwhelmed, thrilled and emotionally touched by having had the opportunity to walk in the same halls and classrooms as the first sisters who ministered there.

Sisters of Providence
September 22, 2021
Education
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Journals and Letters week 50: Mother Theodore and Summit City

We see in this week's reading the connection between Mother Theodore, Reverend Benoit and Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Mary Riley
September 18, 2021
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, SMTG Book Study
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A Jumping off point

As I gaze at the power of the Resurrection, I am grounded in the hope that is the foundation of our faith, the spiritual muscle memory of our relationship to the Divine

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Journals and Letters week 49: The death of an angel

Mother Theodore bares her heart in these beautiful letters about the death of her dear friend, Sister St. Francis Xavier.

Mary Riley
September 11, 2021
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, SMTG Book Study
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Forest Bathing

Indeed, The Woods “is like our mother, a sacred place, a gift to us humans from the divine. It is a paradise of healing.”

Sister Ann Casper
September 10, 2021
Eco-Spirituality, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, Visiting Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
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Journals and Letters week 48: Direct and loving advice from Mother Theodore

In her letter to Sister Maria, Mother Theodore’s tone seems direct, stern and loving. (How does Mother Theodore so consistently manage blending those seeming opposites?)

Sister Denise Wilkinson
September 4, 2021
Providence Spirituality, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, SMTG Book Study
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Journals and Letters week 47: Letting things take their course

Mother Theodore’s long letters have a common theme, loving one another. She advises Mary Xavier to “bear with the defects of others. Endeavor not to cause others to suffer, and you yourself try to endure the little annoyances which are unavoidable in the necessary relations with others.”

Sister Ann Casper
August 28, 2021
Providence Spirituality, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, SMTG Book Study
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Get to know Providence Associate Beverly Adams

With the next year’s invite, I decided why not give the Providence Associates a try? My first visit to the Woods was astonishing. Once on the inside, there was a sense of peace. All of God’s disciples were welcoming, nice and full of love. That has become one of the best life-altering choices I’ve made.

Beverly Adams
August 26, 2021
Community Living, Meet a Providence Associate, Providence Associates, Providence Spirituality
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You mean the world to us!

As Christians serving a broken, impoverished world, our work isn’t done

Sisters of Providence
August 25, 2021
Contribute, Providence Spirituality, Visiting Saint Mary-of-the-Woods

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Journals and Letters week 46: God’s flowers

Mother Theodore followed the death announcement with a telling of this young (aged 21) sister’s story. We learn that she lived her faith and her vocation in a most holy and virtuous way, and she approached her death with serenity.

Linda McMahon
August 21, 2021
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, SMTG Book Study, Stories from the Archives
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