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The Roads of Saint Mary’s
...runs north and south, with trees or buildings on each side. Frequently, it runs perpendicular to a street. Many of our roads were designated places, because they are short, narrow, dead-end roads. A lane, such as Hermitage Lane, is a narrow road, often in a rural area. Good Shepherd Court ends in a little loop, while Knoerle Drive is a private, winding road. New name, same beauty Sister Lisa and Greg made their choices. Then the plan was approved by...
Newsnotes from the Sisters of Providence winter 2022
...Ly. Second row from left: Tanya Pongracz, Michael Rausch, Jonnee Western, Gloria Urrea, Mary Lou Kiesle. Back row from left: Providence Associate Co-Director Sister Susan Paweski, Robb Farris, Marci Alvis-Slinski, Mary Beth Tribble, Marcia (Skitz) Everard and Providence Associate Co- Director Debbie Dillow. (Not pictured: Karen Chuan-Chaun Hung, Lou Carbonaro, Ashley Poff and Daniel Torrence.) Oct. 9, 2021, we joyfully welcomed 18 new Providence Associates. Most were able to gather in person to profess their commitments to the mission of...
Sunday, February 6, 2022: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...When they brought their boats to the shore, they left everything and followed him. Reflection Implausible, impromptu, resistance, astonishment, recognition, conviction, conversion. These words came to mind as I read, once again, this Gospel story which always seems implausible to me. Jesus makes the impromptu request of Peter, busy making a living, to row him out farther from shore. (Me? I’d be annoyed at being interrupted; probably thinking “who do you think you are?”) Not Peter. Peter makes the impromptu...
August 21, 2022: Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Luke, 13:22-30 Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough. After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door, then will you stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for...
Sisters of Providence sponsored institution dedicates new facility
...and your gifts to become the person God intended you to be.’ “The new space will allow us to build community by hosting not only athletic competitions in our gym and on our soccer field, but graduation, fundraisers and more. And this space will allow us to grow our enrollment and serve even more young persons who will benefit from a Providence Cristo Rey experience.” Pasotti added enrollment growth was another primary reason to find a new building. “The former...
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, pray for us!
...ask our loved ones to pray to God for us in their lifetimes, we can do the same with those who have died. Saints and all those who are now close to God after death are perfect people to continue to ask to pray to God for us. This type of prayer is called intercessory pray because we are asking the Saint to intercede to God for us. And so Saint Mother Theodore, who knew pain and sorrow and worry...
A reflection for the Providence Associate Commitment Ceremony
...Joy Club at that parish). Sister Anne Therese Falkenstein at the 2022 Providence Associate Commitment Ceremony. As the other general officers and I worked through your letters, we were touched by your own desire to grow more deeply in your spiritual life – to grow within, to be transformed, by being more intentional about prayer, more reliant on God’s Providence, more focused on your relationship with the Holy One. You want to show up and be present in your own...
Why the Providence Community?
...months of adjustment, “Sisters patiently helped me to adjust to the new environment. Sisters make me feel at peace and at home here. They give me room to grow and accept me for who I am. I love the fact that we are not only living out our charism for others, but for those with whom we live. Charity begins at home,” Sister Leslie said. Saint Mother Theodore Foundress Saint Mother Theodore was also a draw for Sister Leslie. “I...
February 12, 2023: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into Gehenna. “It was also said, Whoever divorces his wife must give her a...
May 14, 2023: Sixth Sunday of Easter
...keep his commandments. His commandment to love and his promise that the advocate will help us to do that will assure us of the reality of the continuing presence of Jesus within us. Our relationship with Jesus continues to grow stronger and become a more intimate relationship, grounded always in love — God’s love for us and our love for God. Action Continue to read, study and “sit with” Scripture to help grow and deapen your personal relationship with Jesus....
It all starts with falling in love with God
...the Sisters of Providence and telling their stories, I’ve learned that it really isn’t crazy from the inside. In fact, it is beautiful. Beauty When a person is called to be a Sister of Providence, and responds to that call, beautiful things happen. The sister has time to really focus on and grow in God. She is led to look deeply at herself and grow in ways she never thought possible. She is educated and formed in love and then...
July 31, 2023: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...like a net thrown into the sea, which collect fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away. Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth. “Do you understand all these...