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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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Meditation on Creation

The life of humans is interconnected with the healthy life of the environment and all creation

Sisters of Providence
August 17, 2018
Advocacy & Action, Community Living, Eco-Spirituality, Environmental Justice, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, White Violet Center for Eco-Justice

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The Providence Climate Agreement

Our latest Providence Climate Agreement pledge total has reached 3,150,713 pounds! Our original goal was to reduce our Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2 million pounds in one year. We came close, but by September, we exceeded our goal! Through…

Sisters of Providence
July 31, 2018
Advocacy & Action, Eco-Spirituality, Education, Peace & Justice, Providence Spirituality, SP Statements, White Violet Center for Eco-Justice
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Blog, Features, Reflections

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…

Sister Denise Wilkinson
July 23, 2018
Eco-Spirituality, Environmental Justice, Providence Spirituality, Reflections from Sister Denise
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School children’s cards, donation brighten sisters’ day

St. Paul School children in Valparaiso, Indiana gifted the sisters with cards and donations during Catholic School's week. We loved them! We hope you enjoy them, too.

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We need their love for God: sisters influence former student’s lifework

“I have always said the Sisters of Providence were such a great influence on me as far as being an independent woman. They were very alive in the community and they shared themselves with us. They cared about the poor. And they cared about us. I just had a fabulous experience at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College largely because of them,” Kathy said.

Amy Miranda
May 25, 2018
Alumni, As seen in HOPE, Contribute, Education, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College

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I Am — photo prayer

I Am One small seed, made up of many parts …

Sister Joni Luna
May 25, 2018
Art & Music, As seen in HOPE, Providence Spirituality

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Providence House restores families to wholeness

Today the biggest need is treating problems of addiction and their impact on individuals and the family systems of which they are a part. One hundred percent of the referrals that we are receiving for services for families are linked to the need for addiction recovery, especially from opioids and heroin.

Sister Cathy Campbell
May 25, 2018
Advocacy & Action, As seen in HOPE, Education, Peace & Justice, Sisters in Ministry
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Bonded with the Sisters of Providence as a Providence Associate

The sisters hold a legacy of wisdom that today’s culture desperately needs, and I am grateful for the privilege of being bonded to the community of sisters and associates.

William Hughes
May 25, 2018
As seen in HOPE, Community Living, Providence Associates, Providence Spirituality

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Mother Theodore moment

All in all, it seems Jack has caught the essence of our saint: very brave, a lover of nature and very kind. Jack himself is very much that way: very brave, a lover of nature and very caring. That’s the thing about saints. We want to be like them.

Sister Denise Wilkinson
May 25, 2018
As seen in HOPE, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

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Sisters and interns: becoming a little bit of each other

“There’s no way either one of us could go without being touched by the other after we’ve come in contact,” Sister Ruth explained. “We become a little bit them and they become a little bit us."

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What is White Violet Center all about?

“We understand Providence as God’s care for all of creation. And, so, this loving, Provident God set forth into motion this web of life. And we’re called to be co-creators with that God to sustain and nourish that life."

Love, mercy, justice

Break boundaries, create hope

What inspires you?

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