Features

Welcome to our features page. Here, we will share with you updates on what is currently happening within our Congregation. Feel free to take time to explore the area.

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The Woods continues to call: Woods Community Cemetery

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

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.

Sister Ann Margaret O'Hara
January 12, 2022
As seen in HOPE, Community Living, Peace & Justice, Racial Equality & Equity, Sisters in Ministry

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Woods Core Class brings students, sisters together

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.

Sister Donna Butler
January 12, 2022
As seen in HOPE, Community Living, Sisters in Ministry

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A new leadership team for the Sisters of Providence

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

Jason Moon
January 12, 2022
As seen in HOPE, Community Living, Sisters in Ministry

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

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 …

Sister Paula Damiano
January 12, 2022
As seen in HOPE, Community Living, Peace & Justice, Racial Equality & Equity

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The Roads of Saint Mary’s

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.

Sister Janet Gilligan
January 12, 2022
As seen in HOPE, Visiting Saint Mary-of-the-Woods

Spring tree in front of the Church of the Immaculate Conception

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Providence Community commits to develop Laudato Si’ Action Platform

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.”

Sister Cathy Campbell
January 12, 2022
As seen in HOPE, Community Living, Environmental Justice, Peace & Justice

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Reunion updates – fall 2021

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!

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

Sisters of Providence
January 12, 2022
As seen in HOPE, Community Living, Providence Spirituality
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And now, a brief word from O’Shaughnessy Dining Hall

I am still a place of tranquil symmetry and classic beauty, and sometimes I think I can hear faint echoes of the chatter, laughter, music and ritual that for 100 years have filled this special space. I wait in eager expectation to learn what my next role will be.

Sister Janet Gilligan
January 12, 2022
As seen in HOPE, Stories from the Archives, Visiting Saint Mary-of-the-Woods

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What’s next for O’Shaughnessy Dining Hall?

We invite you to put on your creative thinking cap and help us brainstorm! Do you have suggestions for uses of O’Shaughnessy Dining Hall that will help provide income needed to sustain the building and ministries of the Woods?

Sisters of Providence
January 12, 2022
As seen in HOPE, Community Living, Visiting Saint Mary-of-the-Woods

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Sister Kathleen Bernadette Smith: love of God strengthens love of others

Kate found the “fit” she was looking for with the Sisters of Providence. She found a group of religious women whose spirituality fit with hers and who shared her love of music. For Sister Kate, both of those characteristics define much of who she is.

Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp
January 12, 2022
Art & Music, As seen in HOPE, Become a Sister, Community Living, Providence Spirituality, Racial Equality & Equity, Sisters in Ministry

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