Reflections

Share in the wisdom of the Providence community. Be inspired, grow in your faith and find practical spiritual guidance in these reflections from Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates.

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A reflection for Feast of Pentecost 2020

God calls us today to do what the disciples did 2,000 years ago – to create communities of love

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
May 31, 2020
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The Art of Isolation

Let the holy within you rise
to greet silence as a friend
and enter into prayer
that moves and lives
and has being in you
for as long as it lasts.

Lori Strawn
May 1, 2020
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Sister Editha Ben: the blessings of sheltering in place in the Philippines

Now, because of covid-19, flights have been canceled, airports are locked down and quarantine is imposed. And so, I have remained in the Philippines with my mother longer than planned.

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Comfort from beauty

Also wanting to help others, I searched my soul. Stretching his idea of comfort from music, I thought of other arts: poetry, other writing, painting, and so on. Then it struck me: weaving!

Sister Mary Lou Ruck
April 13, 2020
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This Good Friday: Is COVID-19 the only pandemic about which we need to pray?

May these atrocities never happen again. Let us not abandon each other.

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
April 10, 2020
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We all need a Polish grandpa! We all need the Christ Child.

We all need a Polish grandpa. We all need the Christ Child.

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
December 20, 2019
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Come O Wisdom: a reflection on our senior jubilarians

Truly, each of you, in your own way, has been a key figure in the unfolding story of Providence in the life of this Congregation.

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
December 19, 2019
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Advent 2019: All are welcome or How do we make room in the inn?

In a season where we sometimes can get really focused on what we are going to give, let’s become gracious receivers of God’s hospitality, receptors of the sacred

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
December 6, 2019
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A community based on mutual, abiding love

Sister Dawn reflects on the Providence community as we welcome new Providence Associates. May this community be one that mirrors the community established more than 2,000 years ago by Jesus. A community based on mutual, abiding love and not, as with other human institutions, on power or fear.

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
November 11, 2019
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Reflections for Foundation Day 2019

Well, the fact that we are still here 179 years later is certainly testimony to the Providence of God. It is also testimony to all those sisters in the U.S. as well as in China and Taiwan AND to the many other Dotties, Mandys and Margies in our larger community of Providence who have not let appearances keep them from doing good, doing lots of good.

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
October 23, 2019
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A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

'Give me, give us, this heart of Mother Theodore with which to treasure the power and promise of the cross.'

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A Reflection for Reception into the Novitiate

Is not your heart burning inside to know this Christ, Jessica, to welcome this Christ as the core of your truest self?

Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
August 5, 2019
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