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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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We all need a Polish grandpa! We all need the Christ Child.

We all need a Polish grandpa. We all need the Christ Child.

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
December 20, 2019
Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, Reflections from Sister Dawn
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Come O Wisdom: a reflection on our senior jubilarians

Truly, each of you, in your own way, has been a key figure in the unfolding story of Providence in the life of this Congregation.

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
December 19, 2019
Providence Spirituality, Reflections from Sister Dawn, Stories from the Archives

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Christmas Mourning

It is when I have done this kind of reflection and made life-giving decisions that I have allowed grief to be my teacher

Sister Connie Kramer
December 9, 2019
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Advent 2019: All are welcome or How do we make room in the inn?

In a season where we sometimes can get really focused on what we are going to give, let’s become gracious receivers of God’s hospitality, receptors of the sacred

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
December 6, 2019
Providence Associates, Providence Spirituality, Reflections from Sister Dawn

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Against All Odds: Focus on Sister Eugene Marie Howard, SP

Much of the personal information I was able to find about Sister Eugene Marie came from a handwritten, undated document which may have been a commentary prepared after Sister Eugene Marie’s death.

Sister Marilyn Baker
December 5, 2019
Advocacy & Action, Education, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, Stories from the Archives

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Against All Odds: The life of Mother Marie Gratia Luking

Her maturity was such that she was allowed to make an early profession of final vows

Sister Maureen Abbott
November 24, 2019
Advocacy & Action, Education, Mission in Asia, Peace & Justice, Stories from the Archives
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Against All Odds: Focus on Sister Winifred Patrice O’Donovan, SP

For Sister Winifred Patrice, the hardships, the dire conditions, the personal inconveniences and suffering were endured as a missionary for the spread of the Gospel to all corners of the world and for the salvation of souls.

Sister Marilyn Baker
November 22, 2019
Education, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, Sisters in Ministry, Stories from the Archives
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The reunion finale for Providence High School

'We Sisters of Providence, who continue to benefit from the thoughtful Christian women you have become, promise we will not forget you'

Sisters of Providence
November 13, 2019
Alumni, Education, Providence Spirituality
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A community based on mutual, abiding love

Sister Dawn reflects on the Providence community as we welcome new Providence Associates. May this community be one that mirrors the community established more than 2,000 years ago by Jesus. A community based on mutual, abiding love and not, as with other human institutions, on power or fear.

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
November 11, 2019
Providence Associates, Providence Spirituality, Reflections from Sister Dawn

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Throwback Thursday: Pray the Novena of Our Lady of Providence

On Saturday, Nov. 16 the Sisters of Providence will celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Providence in a special Mass at 11 a.m. in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. As is tradition we invite you to join us…

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Reflections for Foundation Day 2019

Well, the fact that we are still here 179 years later is certainly testimony to the Providence of God. It is also testimony to all those sisters in the U.S. as well as in China and Taiwan AND to the many other Dotties, Mandys and Margies in our larger community of Providence who have not let appearances keep them from doing good, doing lots of good.

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
October 23, 2019
Advocacy & Action, Education, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, Reflections from Sister Dawn, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
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A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

'Give me, give us, this heart of Mother Theodore with which to treasure the power and promise of the cross.'

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