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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 week 13: Relationships
The eight pages we read from the Mother Theodore’s ‘Journals and Letters” create quite the patchwork quilt of relationships — some intriguing, some annoying, some tender, some puzzling, some of the true blue kind.
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.
Merry Christmas! There is cause for rejoicing here!
Christmas reminds us that God has become one of us in Jesus
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.
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).
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?
‘Tis the Season of Visions and Dreams
We invite your support and encouragement by adding your name to this letter
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.
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.
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.
