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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.
Journals and Letters final week: Celebrate Mother Theodore
With this week’s blog, we bid adieu, goodbye to our yearlong journey with Mother Theodore Guerin. We learned so much on this journey.
Musings on World Smile Day
So smile – with your mouth, your eyes, your voice. Just smile – and then do that one random act of kindness that will make someone else smile.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.”
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?)
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.”
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.
