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Welcome Providence Pax Terre!
The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, are happy to announce the birth of the newest member of our alpaca herd at the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. Providence Pax Terre was born on Tuesday, June 6, to Providence Ruth at approximately 1:30 p.m. This is the second cria (baby alpaca) for Ruth who is also the mother to Providence Bella, born in the fall of 2021. The name Pax Terre, which means peace and Earth in Latin, was...
‘Be unafraid to follow in her footsteps’: a reflection on the Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...of Women Religious heard from Brian Swimme, a professor and writer who has devoted his life to telling the Universe Story. Brian shared his belief that relationship is the most fundamental power in the universe. And to prove his point, he related the fact that for three billion years, life on Earth consisted solely of unicellular (you) organisms. But then, some 700 million years ago, these unicellular organisms entered into relationships with each other. And here is the great mystery,...
Breaking boundaries as Providence people
...2020, Black Lives matter protest in downtown Terre Haute, Indiana. I think the Sisters of Providence Litany of Nonviolence (below in italics) demonstrates how breaking boundaries and creating hope go hand in hand. It begins: Provident God, aware of our own brokenness, we ask the gift of courage to identify how and where we are in need of conversion in order to live in solidarity with Earth and all creation. Solidarity, or unity, is one of the foundational principles in...
May 26, 2024: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Gospel: Matthew 28: 16-20 The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. When they all saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I...
HOPE Summer 2024 — Creating Hope
by Sister Corbin Hannah, SP If breaking boundaries is removing the barriers to justice and the Kingdom of God on Earth, then creating hope is about building the relationships, conditions, and systems that make God’s Reign a visible and felt reality here and now. The hope our Providence Community strives to create is beyond wishful thinking. It is beyond forced optimism that says “things will get better.” The hope we want to create is about facing the pain of the...
A Note from Sister Barbara, July 10, 2024
...be like selling “the air, the sea and the earth.” The air, sea, and the earth were recognized as gifts of the Great Spirit belonging to all peoples: one tribe did not “own” the land…or the air or the sea. All tribes lived with inborn access to the land, and all tribes must agree to the sale. Tecumseh was a man of righteousness and fairness. He was brave and spoke out against injustice. When he met with the territorial governor...
Sister Mary Catherine Keene
Sister Mary Catherine Keene passed away on Saturday, July 20, 2024, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She was 85-years-old and had been a Sister of Providence for 67 years. Commentary By Sister Marie McCarthy, SP My life flows on in endless song above Earth’s lamentations. I feel the real, though far off song, that hails a new creation. No storm can shake my inmost calm, while to that Rock I’m clinging. Since Love is Lord of heaven and Earth, How can...
November 17, 2024: Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Mark 13:24-32 (Carmelite Lectionary) Jesus said to his companions: “In those days, after much tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Anointed One coming in clouds with great power and glory, sending out the angels and gathering the elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to...
Against gray February skies
Note: The following poem was written by the late Sister Mary Catherine Keene, SP, in 1975. Bare trees rise Pushing up from somewhere Deep within the earth Witnesses to death and life To dormancy and birth How bound we are to them! Yes, do we know How woven in one cloth we stand — Those trees and we Forming some life-bond Mysteriously Some voice from Genesis describes The Knowledge Tree Psalmist lean upon the cedar trees of Lebanon Christ found...
Volunteers Make the Difference
April is Volunteer Appreciation Month. For the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, volunteers make a big difference in the community. More than 200 volunteers help in almost every Sisters of Providence ministry from one-time events like the Earth Day Festival, Phonathon, Used Book Sales and Christmas Fun at the Woods, to ongoing efforts like helping at White Violet Farm, Administrative Office, Mission Advancement, Providence Teen Ministry, Providence Healthcare, or the I.T. Department. Rely on Volunteers Nonprofit organizations, like...
Remembering Pope Francis: Champion of the poor, the marginalized and the environment
...to receive those prayers. Certainly, his deep humility lent credibility to the challenges he made to us during his pontificate to go to the margins, to reach out to those most in need of God’s mercy and hope. For the Sisters of Providence, Pope Francis’ recognition of our common home, Earth, as one of the places most in need found resonance in our ministry of eco-spirituality and justice. His encyclical Letter, Laudato Si’, began a truly universal movement to change...
August 17, 2025: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Luke 12:49-53 Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two...