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Unadorned

By Jean Brown | November 5, 2016 |

My arms are adorned with red and gold jewels that shimmer and dance … with the wind, the rain, the breeze, the birds … I accept the fall winds and…

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Cubs win! Sisters react to Chicago Cubs’ World Series victory

By Sisters of Providence | November 4, 2016 |

General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski and Sister Nancy Nolan Sister Alice Ann Rhinesmith Sister Maureen Ann McCarthy Sister Noralee Keefe Sister Rita Clare Gerardot Sister Mary Cecile Grojean Sister Rosemary…

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Passionate about food and nutrition

By Kelsey Hollis | November 4, 2016 |

White Violet Center intern Destiny James is a junior at Johnson and Wales University in Miami, Florida. “I think it’s important, before we ever cook food, to know where it comes from.” she said.

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Throwback Thursday: Remembering Sister Beth Kelso

By Jason Moon | November 3, 2016 |

Sister Beth taught in high schools and academies in Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, California and Washington, D.C.

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70 years with Our Lady of Providence

By Sister Mary Rita Griffin | November 1, 2016 |

This painting of Our Lady of Providence, Queen of the Home, was hung at the entrance of my home in 1946, when I was 10 years old. The painting greeted each person coming into our home, not only visitors but my parents, younger brother and me. It spoke to all of the loving care of Mary for each one that entered.

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Lives of the Saints

By Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp | October 31, 2016 |

He encouraged me to live a life like that of my mother

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God’s call is finding a place where we can thrive and be our fullest selves

By Sister Tracey Horan | October 30, 2016 |

“When we talk about vocation, when we talk about a call, it’s not that God is asking us to fit into some box that doesn’t fit us. It’s about finding a place where we can really thrive and be our fullest selves.”

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A Haunting Desert Experience

By Sister Kathleen Desautels | October 29, 2016 |

‘To those of you who don’t vote, who don’t change these laws, you are allowing children to die here inside places like Eloy’

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Throwback Thursday: Remembering Sister Therese Berry

By Jason Moon | October 27, 2016 |

According to her records in Archives, she was “remembered as an outstanding teacher, one who kept her classroom with beautiful décor”

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Called to perform: Sandra Hartlieb’s Mother Theodore

By Lori Strawn | October 24, 2016 |

“I was mad at Mother Theodore!” Sandra confesses. For years, Sandra had struggled with corneal degeneration. Prayers for Mother Theodore’s intervention seemed to fall on deaf ears.
“I wandered around the grounds complaining,” Sandra explains. “I ‘heard’ a voice saying, ‘Tell my story.’ Well, I said, ‘I am telling MY story!’ But the voice came again, and I realized it was HER! Telling me to tell HER story! I decided to do it.”

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Letter to Cardinal Elect Joseph Tobin

By Sister Dawn Tomaszewski | October 23, 2016 |

We have found in you an advocate for Catholic higher education, as well as religious life

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Strength from being ordinary this Foundation Day

By Sister Diane Mason | October 22, 2016 |

What matters is what is in our hearts and souls. It’s the warmth, respect and love that we have for others — that same love and respect Saint Mother Theodore modeled to all with whom she came in contact. It was her ordinary, her natural response that came from deep within her heart. It was a response borne of deep prayer and of complete trust in her Provident God.

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