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Sisters of Providence Litany of Nonviolence
...Grant us the desire, and the will, to live simply so others may have their just share of Earth’s resources. Deliver us from the silence that gives consent to abuse, war and evil. Grant us the desire, and the courage, to risk speaking and acting for the common good. Deliver us from the violence of irreverence, exploitation and control. Grant us the desire, and the strength, to act responsibly within the cycle of creation. God of love, mercy and justice,...
An All Souls Remembrance
Loving God, A candle burns in my heart and warms my soul. It never flickers. It never wanes. It is the memory of those I love who are now at home with you. I ask you to keep them close to your heart. Keep them in the bright flame of your love. As I prepare for my own journey, help me to understand death as but a doorway to new and eternal life....
Care of Earth: an ascetical practice for our times?
...illusion that God created the universe for humans to dominate and to use as they wished. In more recent years we have come to recognize that not only have we humans used this living planet, our Earth, but we have also abused it! Daily we read or hear about the effects of global warming, the pollution of our water, air and soil, the extinction of countless species, the cries coming from Earth herself in the form of countless natural disasters!...
Giving others hope
This article is reprinted from the winter 2009 issue of HOPE. On this day, it’s raining. You fumble with an umbrella and hustle inside the back door of St. Ann Dental Services, which has been at its current site since Jan.12, 2005. An elevator carries you to the second floor and when the door opens, you find yourself walking into a comfortable, well-lighted room. Magazines and other reading material are nearby. Beautiful artwork hangs on the walls. The staff’s warm...
Mission to the Chinese historical photos
...born Josephine Luking in 1885 in Connorsville, Ind. She died Oct. 29, 1964, and was buried in Taiwan. Ten of these SPs were interned in the concentration camp during World War II. Though not interned, the two native Chinese Sisters of Providence, Sisters Agnes Joan Li and Bernadette Ma, faced the challenge of carrying on the work of the SP mission in China. Seated from left: Sisters Agnes Loyola Wolf, Marie Patricia Shortall, Marie Gratia Luking, Monica Marie Rigoni and...
A God-graced moment
...of St. Peter’s Square. As we go through security gates — with some pushing and shoving — we are transported into THE square and there we are caught in the wonder of seeing our beloved Mother Theodore’s banner waving gently in the soft, warm breezes above us on the facade of St. Peter’s. Because we have tickets marked CHOIR we are shown up the stairs of this magnificent basilica and led through a foyer to the places reserved for us....
Spreading the mission of Providence
...so cases. He and his staff have had success in moving all of those causes forward. His work gives him a unique perspective on what it takes to become a saint. “Miracles can happen to people who are Catholic or non-Catholic. They can happen where Catholicism doesn’t even exist. It reveals the extraordinary depth of God’s plan. In East Timor, where there is war and a lot of strife, a miracle occurred,” he said, again through his interpreter. Miracles are...
Women’s History Month: Mother Theodore and smoking
...the house was so kind as to go and help our driver, and we were left to groan at our ease and to warm ourselves in this narrow abode. The woman, about sixty years of age, asked us who we were. As we could not answer except in French, she continued quietly smoking her pipe. (Smoking seems customary among the women in this part of the country; even young girls smoke; this seems very strange.)” To learn more about Saint...
Women’s History Month: Mother Theodore and mosquitoes
...the shedding of blood, but this was a night of slaughter. I may say without boasting too much that several of my enemies perished by my hands, but I was sorely wounded. All my Sisters, except Sister Basilide, bore the glorious scars which proved that they, too, had undergone a bloody battle with the mosquitoes.” Abraham Lincoln, when he fought in the Black Hawk War, had a very similar account of these vicious bloodsuckers! Click here to read Lincoln’s story....
General Superior summons foundress to support new SMWC president
...be a woman of prayer. Mother Theodore affirms what you already know, Dr. King. ‘What strength the soul draws from prayer. In the midst of a storm, how sweet is the calm one finds in the heart of Jesus.’ And she reminds you, as she reminds the Sisters of Providence, ‘Our hope is the Providence of God, which has protected us until the present, and which will provide, somehow, for our future needs.’ The Sisters of Providence warmly welcome you...
Sister Maureen Clare Lehmann
...quick joke. More recently, our image of her is holding a cup of coffee, perhaps for warmth more than for drinking. And how many staff and sisters would answer her call, ‘Help me! Help me!’ only to be told that she needed nothing. They finally caught on that she really just needed to know that someone was listening and that someone cared,” said Sister Ann. “Sister Maureen Clare described as the most significant moment in her life as a Sister...
Why I love Mother Theodore
...do believe in these stories. For me, Mother Theodore transcends our definitions and belongs to everyone. You don’t have to be Catholic to love her. You don’t even have to believe in God to love her. The portrait of Mother Theodore that I printed out and put at my desk is a lovely pen and ink drawing by beloved Terre Haute artist John Laska, who was a Unitarian Universalist, World War II vet, and life-long humanitarian and activist. I can’t...