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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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Ready to ring in a New Year!

We are SO over 2020.

Sister Lisa Stallings
January 1, 2021
Advocacy & Action, Education, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality
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Christmas Mourning during COVID-19 …

Today we greet the dawn of Christmas 2020

Sister Connie Kramer
December 27, 2020
Advocacy & Action, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality
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Journals and Letters week 12: Hardship and consolation

The reading picks up after the fire at Saint Mary’s destroyed the barns and granary, other provisions and all the farm equipment.

Sister Ann Casper
December 26, 2020
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, SMTG Book Study, Stories from the Archives
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Merry Christmas! There is cause for rejoicing here!

Christmas reminds us that God has become one of us in Jesus

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
December 23, 2020
Advocacy & Action, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, Reflections from Sister Dawn
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A year of St. Joseph, family protector

As we celebrate the birth of Jesus the Christ, the Light of the world, reflect on the example of Joseph. We will need to be “creatively courageous” this Christmas.

Sister Sue Paweski
December 22, 2020
Providence Associates, Providence Spirituality
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Ask Sister Dina: Tell me about the ‘Gibson Girls’

The “Gibson Girls” were Sister James Maureen along with Sister Alice Jean and Sister Jane (who were also twins).

Sister Dina Bato
December 20, 2020
Community Living, Stories from the Archives
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Journals and Letters week 11: Early letters part deux

Did you know that Saint Mother Theordore Guerin wrote over 5,000 letters in her lifetime?

Mary Riley
December 19, 2020
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, SMTG Book Study
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‘Tis the Season of Visions and Dreams

We invite your support and encouragement by adding your name to this letter

Sister Marilyn Kofler
December 17, 2020
Advocacy & Action, Eco-Spirituality, Education, Environmental Justice, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, White Violet Center for Eco-Justice
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2020 Christmas letter from General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski

The promises of God were fulfilled. Not only their hopes, but also the hopes of a world waiting for a Messiah, for the dawn of a new age were born in Jesus the Christ.

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
December 15, 2020
Contribute, Reflections from Sister Dawn
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Ask Sister Dina: Two requests for online database of sisters

Perhaps the quickest way to find information on an individual sister is through the Find-A-Sister capability on our website here. Here you can search by name or key word to find information on our living sisters and our sisters who have died within the past several years.

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Journals and Letters week 10: First letters, bishop issues

As she goes on, we get a feel for more of the distress coming the sisters’ way from the bishop. “So far there has been nothing but complaints about us,” she writes.

Amy Miranda
December 12, 2020
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, SMTG Book Study, Stories from the Archives
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The Truth of a Tree

The tree is not completely altered; it has accommodated an uninvited situation. And, yes, that tree spoke to my heart. People can make changes and alter aspects of their lives because Creation is meant to survive if it is able to adapt to change.

Sister Sue Paweski
December 11, 2020
Community Living, Providence Associates, Providence Spirituality
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