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Art, Spirituality and Justice
...landmark moment in the history of socially engaged art. Since its release, the song has raised over $80 million for humanitarian aid, with 90% directed toward African relief efforts. These efforts included short-term food assistance and long-term initiatives like birth control education and food production. “We Are the World” exemplifies how art can function as a powerful spiritual and social force. The song calls on listeners to act with compassion and solidarity, reflecting core spiritual values such as empathy, justice,...
Finding Pilgrims of Hope at the Arizona/Mexico Border
Sister of Providence Tracey Horan, SP, shares with us from her ministry at the Kino Border Initiative on the Mexico side of the US (Arizona)/Mexico border in the video below. In her ministry Sister Tracey accompanies migrants who are searching for a safe place to live. She shares stories of struggle and using our voices to help others. Sister Tracey shares how her faith calls her to accompany these migrants and to remind others of the dignity they have as...
Climate Crisis Task Force offers August Care for Creation Actions
...the week of August 17-23 The Sisters of Providence and wider Providence Community, publicly committed to join the worldwide Catholic community by responding to Pope Francis’ appeal to participate in a seven-year journey toward sustainability and integral ecology by developing a Laudato Si’ Action Platform Plan. The action platform named seven goals, including: Response to the cry of the Earth, Response to the cry of the Poor, Ecological Economics, Adoption of Sustainable Lifestyle, Ecological Education, Ecological Spirituality and Community Resilience...
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and the Catholic Church
...back progress toward racial and economic justice in public education by dismantling programs that support student success. Embraced by President Trump’s administration, Project 2025’s “Mandate For Leadership” is a 900-page manual for reorganizing the entire federal government agency by agency to serve a conservative agenda. The proposed elimination of more than $370 million in federal grants, which currently support student mental health services, campus support programs, and initiatives aimed at increasing college completion. The current One Big Beautiful Bill proposal...
Sisters Speak Out: On the Road with the Sisters of Providence
...gathered outside of the Church of the Immaculate Conception to pray the Rosary. In Indianapolis, Providence Associates gathered in prayerful solidarity on the campus of Providence Cristo Rey High School. And in Eloy, Arizona, Sister Tracey Horan, SP, and members of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and Kino Border Initiative prayed in and for collaborative justice and peace. Postulant Maité was also asked to participate in a Canadian echo event (virtually) by providing Spanish translation for the event. Sisters...
HOPE Fall 2025
Read or download HOPE magazine: What would you love to see in HOPE Magazine? Your opinion matters! We’re conducting a survey to gather your ideas for HOPE Magazine. Please take a few moments to complete our survey and tell us what you’d like to see in upcoming issues. HOPE Magazine survey As seen in HOPE: Caring for Those in Need: Serving God’s Children at the Border At the Kino Border Initiative, migrants are met with compassion and aid from Catholic...
Sister Barbara Sheehan ushers in new ministry
...Father Terry said. “This initiative brings all those together for the residents as they come together in community for prayer, reflection and sharing their journeys of faith here in presence of our Providence God who never fails us, as Saint Mother Theodore Guerin said many times in her life.” The pastors include the Rev. Mary Beth Mullen, the Rev. Ed Gladish of West Terre Haute United Methodist Church, Pastor Adin Rodgers of Bethany United Church of Christ in West Terre...
Sister Tracey Horan interviewed by Border Chronicle
“I’ve been here for six years. This is the first year I’ve heard so many stories of people who were at a court hearing and were detained even though they had ongoing proceedings, and they were still working through their case.” — Sister Tracey Horan, SP Sister Tracey Horan The Border Chronicle recently conducted an interview with Sister Tracey regarding her ministry with Kino Border Initiative, where she serves as the associate director of education and advocacy. Read more of...
Gracious, spacious and precious: Lent 2012
...about the HOW of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Here’s where I find myself as the season begins. For me, the most apt synonym for Providence is compassion. God pouring God’s Self out in endless, boundless, unconditional, surprising acts of love — for me, for us, for all, for Earth, for the entire cosmos. Indeed the acts of our provident God are “gracious, spacious, and precious.” If I believe that — and I do with all my self — how can...
Christmas 2011
...even Santa. I add — maybe even in our relationship with our Provident God … . We know we do believe in a God of compassion and presence who asks us to help others believe by bringing God’s compassion and presence into the world through our “works of love, mercy and justice.” We know that the longings of the people of Earth are often misdirected, poorly expressed, trampled on by systems of abusive power. The needs of Earth and Earth’s...
The 2011 installation of the General Officers
...of the future imagined by God and shown to us by Jesus. We live for the sake of the kin-dom of God – the kin-dom recognized by its inclusivity, forgiveness and reconciliation, and all those puzzling paradoxes – the last shall be first; the weak will be powerful; the master will be servant; the foolish are wise; we die to live. Who will bring about this kin-dom of God, this better future for Earth and Earth’s people? Who will perform...
Gratitude – Thanksgiving 2009
...suffering of Earth and Earth’s people is immense at the present time. Certainly, we’re not grateful for any personal or global suffering, for violence or hunger, nor for any mistreatment of people or creation. What we may need to be grateful for — in our all too real world of light and darkness — is this: as Providence would have it, we are called together to bring hope and healing to all creation. The Sisters of Providence are very grateful...