Blog
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.
Musings on Kleenex and ‘Kin-dom’
The kin-dom of God is like a Kleenex that’s been washed, rinsed, spun dry in a washing machine
Sister Antonia Marie Zick: A Providential Dream
Josepha would finally see the large convent she had seen in her dream
New designs from a tree’s former fullness
A huge white oak tree fell to the ground one day last week. Well, it wasn’t really a huge white oak tree. It was Huge. Not really. It was HUGE! It was old. Well, it was OLD. (Maybe the tree…
Reflecting on our Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting is an excellent time and space to touch into those Chapter commitments
Rooted in Providence – love and devotion
A profile on the 2018 Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Donor Dinner Rooted in Providence award winners
A celebration of interculturality
(Note: The following is a reflection shared by Sister Patty Fillenwarth during the Sisters of Providence 2018 annual meeting) We rejoice in being sisters and brothers, the very life and breath of God in the Spirit. Today we celebrate interculturality,…
Reflections from the 2018 Golden/Silver Jubilee Celebration
Obedience in this day may mean to speak publicly about the ills of our society, to cast down the mighty from their thrones and lift up the lowly, to give the hungry good things and send the rich away empty-handed. To stand, as our Pope Francis suggests over and over again, with those on the margins. And if we are going to stand on the margins, we may have to move, to leave behind all that has become familiar and comfortable for the sake of the reign of God.
‘We Are Still In’
On the third anniversary of the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, along with close to 600 United States Catholic institutions have declared “We Are Still In,” regarding the Paris Climate…
Reflections for the local Golden Jubilee celebration
Each of you set forth on a path you thought was marked out by Providence.
Volunteering can be addictive – cleaning statues in Providence Park
The Week of Service started as collaboration between the Sisters of Providence and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) as we jointly celebrated our 175th anniversary in 2015. The SMWC Alumni Board of Directors worked with the sisters on it that very…
Where Your Treasure Is
It was so strange to stand outside the place where Sonia was detained
Remembering Providence High
The sisters were my lifeline ... I loved them. They cared.