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Thanksgiving

By Sister Joanne Golding | November 22, 2020 |

May I always love you and serve you

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Journals and Letters week 7: Hardship on the Ohio

By Mary Riley | November 21, 2020 |

As they get closer to Indiana, Mother Theodore and her companions experience some lows and highs traveling down the Ohio River.

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Journals and Letters week 6: Traveling the United States

By Patricia Davis | November 14, 2020 |

Saint Mother Theodore’s detailed descriptions of her experiences become a way to meditate on and pray thanksgiving for creation.

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‘Against All Odds’ – Sister Clare Mitchell, SP

By Sister Maureen Abbott | November 13, 2020 |

The necrology describes Sister Clare as a “gentle devoted religious, one very faithful to all her obligations. Many of the Sisters were very devoted to her, and this affection was noticeable even in their remembrance of her.”

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Being ‘Stickered’

By Sister Ann Casper | November 10, 2020 |

I asked the sisters and staff at the Woods for their experience of “being stickered” and want to share their responses with you. Enjoy!

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Journals and Letters week 5: The measure of the woman

By Sister Denise Wilkinson | November 7, 2020 |

Did the woman carry a yard stick? A surveyor’s measure? A folded up paper chart that converts leagues to miles, meters to inches or feet?

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Nine days of prayer with Mary, Queen of the Home

By Mary Riley | November 5, 2020 |

Pray with the Sisters of Providence for the nine days leading up to the Feast of Our Lady of Providence on Saturday, Nov. 14.

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Journals and Letters week 4: Arrival on U.S. soil

By Sister Ann Casper | October 31, 2020 |

And then, as often happens in our darkest hours, the smallest of kindnesses can lift the spirits.

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Reflections for Foundation Day 2020

By Sisters of Providence | October 30, 2020 |

We love these women who have so shaped our beloved community.

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Witness

By Sister Barbara Battista | October 30, 2020 |

Surely just as we know that God loves us always and is never far from us, so are we called to love one another always, no matter what.

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A new start in the Providence Community

By Amy Miranda | October 28, 2020 |

So, what brought these diverse women and men to seek something more with the Sisters of Providence?

Some said that as alums of former Sisters of Providence schools they were reconnecting with their roots.

One told how he had come to the Woods for a retreat and was inspired by what he saw.

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“Journals and Letters” week 3: At sea in 1840

By Amy Miranda | October 25, 2020 |

I love the many instances where she studies and describes an animal for the reader. She tells of the whale’s massive head, as big as a house. The dark brown color of its back and how it spouts out water apparently by respiration as its jets are so regular.

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