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The Sacred Right to Vote

By Sisters of Providence | January 18, 2022 |

Pass the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act

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Newsnotes from the Sisters of Providence winter 2022

By Sisters of Providence | January 12, 2022 |

A restored lake, a new postulant, a new alpaca and new Providence Associates. Catch up on all that is new with the Sisters of Providence.

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Prayer: a Sisters of Providence ministry dear to the heart

By Sister Denise Wilkinson | January 12, 2022 |

“The Sisters are my go to pray-ers! I am a firm believer in the power of prayer, so I’ll ask anyone who cares enough to pray for someone. Storm the heavens!”

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The Woods continues to call: Woods Community Cemetery

By Sister Ann Casper | January 12, 2022 |

For others who have chosen Providence Community Cemetery for cremains interment, the place itself — Saint Mary-of-the-Woods — is the attraction.

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Looking racism in the eye: there is still much to do

By Sister Ann Margaret O'Hara | January 12, 2022 |

My home town was a small city that did not permit African-Americans within the city limits after dark. The deed to our house did not allow us to sell our house to anyone of African-American descent.

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Woods Core Class brings students, sisters together

By Sister Donna Butler | January 12, 2022 |

I shared with them information about our spirituality, our current ministries, justice efforts and values. I answered their questions about religious life and shared my personal experience of this life.

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A new leadership team for the Sisters of Providence

By Jason Moon | January 12, 2022 |

The Chapter meeting culminated in the election of the Congregation’s Leadership Team of the next five years.

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Anti-Racism: the Providence Community’s justice focus for 2021-2026

By Sister Paula Damiano | January 12, 2022 |

We commit to partnering with other groups in prayer, education, action and advocacy to: explore the systemic roots of racism in our countries and in our own lives; identify areas of our lives in which we may be complicit with racist attitudes and actions …

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The Roads of Saint Mary’s

By Sister Janet Gilligan | January 12, 2022 |

This renaming of roads was necessary in order for the Woods to be enrolled in the County Emergency System. In the past, when there was an emergency, a member of the security staff had to wait at the gate to direct the emergency vehicles.

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Spring tree in front of the Church of the Immaculate Conception

Providence Community commits to develop Laudato Si’ Action Platform

By Sister Cathy Campbell | January 12, 2022 |

The commitment that Sister Dawn signed on behalf of the Providence Community states, among other points, that the Sisters of Providence are willing “To take up the urgent appeal of Laudato Si’ to listen and respond to the lurings of Providence to attend to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor by making it a community priority.”

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Reunion updates – fall 2021

By Maureen Dickinson | January 12, 2022 |

Thank you to all who hosted, planned and attended! We hope you made the most of your time reconnecting and reminiscing.

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Let the Sisters of Providence pray for you!

By Sisters of Providence | January 12, 2022 |

Here are some of the many ways to request prayers from the Sisters of Providence.

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