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.
Pouring out your heart in prayer
Remember our friend Jonah from the Jewish scriptures? He poured out his heart in prayer, saying, “In my distress I called to my God, and God answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help,…
Remembering Sisters Marilyn Therese Lipps and Concetta Banez
'She seized challenges and new opportunities with a tenacity that sometimes inspired others and at other times, exasperated them'
Deep love and healing
To hear Ezra Kyle Meadors talk about his history with the Sisters of Providence is to feel his deep love for the community, Mother Theodore and the sisters and his gratitude for the strain of Providence running through his life.
Past the “need-to’s” to the stable, to the crib, to our hearts
The true meaning of Christmas is the birth of the Christ child. Jesus being born in a simple stable can get lost in all of the “need to’s”.
Remembering Sisters Mary Loyola Bender and Ann Kevin O’Connor
This week’s Throwback Thursday blog will take a look at the lives and ministries of Sister Mary Loyola Bender and Sister Ann Kevin O’Connor
The art of hands-on learning
“I really enjoyed how educational the experience was … I’ve worked on farms before, but nothing has ever been quite this immersive. I feel like I’ve been surrounded by more knowledge and more dirt than I have in a long while,”
How Taizé changed my life
I’ve spent the last two years teaching at Ben Davis High School, commuting from the east side of Terre Haute to the west side of Indianapolis — an hour and fifteen minutes each way on Interstate-70, 70-something miles an hour.…
Remembering Sisters Amata Dugan and Michael Ellen Green
Sister Amata Dugan and Sister Michael Ellen Green
Immaculate Conception, patroness of our country, pray for us
Maybe with prayer, we can listen to each other and together find a way to life, liberty from want, and the pursuit of happiness for all.
December 10, Human Rights Day and This Little Light
It seems harder to let my light shine, wondering what difference it makes