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Sister Deidre Clements
...her face as she received Communion. I think that when she traveled the last road on the evening of May 15, God said to her, ‘Welcome home, good and faithful friend. Because you have been such a life-giver on Earth, I now give you my life for all eternity,’” said Sister Catherine. The Mass of Christian Burial for Sister Deidre was celebrated May 21, with the Rev. Daniel Hopcus presiding. She was preceded in death by all of her siblings....
Sister Marian Elizabeth Moriarty
Sister Marian Elizabeth Moriarty “Jesus said to his disciples, ‘You are the salt of the Earth. … You are the light of the world.’” (Matthew 5:13a, 14a) “This Gospel reading from Matthew was used at the Eucharistic Liturgy the day after Sister Marian Elizabeth’s death and I immediately knew it would be appropriate for her wake service. ‘Salt’ and ‘light’ — two realities of our daily lives that are so much a part of our day that we hardly notice...
Sister Marie Consolata Gallagher
...to develop her keen intellect. One example of these opportunities that bore much fruit was a grant she received to pursue Shakespearean studies at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Many students at Immaculata were to be the beneficiaries of those studies as she became one of the Congregation’s most knowledgeable teachers of Shakespeare,” said Sister Mary Roger. “From her early childhood, Sister Marie Consolata had had many earthly homes — in Ireland, in Scotland, in Philadelphia, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods....
All Souls Day 2011
...with that thought all day – remembering saints and sinners; wondering about “cave persons;” Adolph Hitler crossed my mind as did Muammar Gaddafi. Pharaoh and the midwives who saved Moses as well as Ruth and Naomi became part of this amazing parade. Well, as I say, I was busy assembling my “cast” all day and awed by the creativity of Providence, sobered by the freedom God gives us to choose “life or death” as we walk on Earth. I wondered...
Prayer in troubled times
...held in my anguish and distress. So much of what the human family and Earth are suffering result from human decision-making. So I find that it is only through prayer and solidarity with others that I find the courage to live the mission of the Congregation, to engage in “works of love, mercy and justice in service among God’s people.” I pray then to find the will and strength to respond in compassion and in service. Certainly, at times of...
General Chapter 2011
...to it.” Saint Mother Theodore Guerin To free ourselves to better respond to urgent global issues, especially those impacting women and Earth: We will engage in a Congregation-wide assessment of all of our ministries to determine their sustainability and effectiveness as lived expressions of love, mercy and justice. We will create new forms of collaboration with Providence Associates and other partners for the mission. We will commit to those ministries which best respond to the signs of the times and...
Easter 2011
...Thursday’s joyful and somber communion of friends — to Good Friday’s suffering and martyrdom of the Just One — to Easter dawn’s discovery that the tomb is empty. Why gentle pastels for Easter? Perhaps because these pale and vivid hues surround many of us in the various palettes spring paints across Earth. Often the dawn sky presents itself in pale blue and mauve and lavender shades very unlike the oranges and reds of sunset. Was this the perfect sky to...
Sister Joan (Ruth Cecile) Klega
Sister Joan Klega “The winter solstice occurs once a year, when the tilt of Earth’s axis is oriented directly away from the sun, causing the sun to appear to reach its northern-most extreme. The name is derived from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still) because at the solstice, the sun stands in declination; that is, its apparent movement north or south comes to a standstill.” (quote by Sister Jan Craven) “A passage happened last Friday evening of...
Sister Julia (Marie Loretta) Shea
...Julia provided convent service in Quincy, Mass. She came to the Woods in 2000. “Decades ago when she was in high school, Sister Julia wrote for her school paper an account of a Sister of Providence who had died after 29 years in the Infirmary. She wrote: ‘The story of her deeds did not reach the ends of the earth, but who would not call her years of patient, cheerful suffering an extraordinary deed?’ Assuredly Sister Julia could not have...
Our special practices
...the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice — “hope and healing for earth.” This perception is offering us a still newer lens through which to more clearly identify who we are as Sisters of Providence. Clearly, the externals of any practice are not static. They change continually. Each period of history requires that we find new ways to express the truth of the mandates of the Gospel. Hospitality in the year 2005 is expressed very differently than it was in 1540...
Sister Marie Kevin Tighe answers questions
...look up to and imitate. It doesn’t mean we all have to do exactly what every single saint ever did. One reason we are alive is to become holy, and that means simply to be like God. It doesn’t mean we’re trying to be little gods. God showed us an example of what it’s like to be human and to be like God by sending Jesus to Earth and being the actual embodiment of God in human form. The saints...
The charism of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...of the holy men and women through the ages provide ample evidence of how new impulses of God’s spirit have continuously refreshed the desire that “thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.” As we celebrate Mother Theodore’s sainthood, we ask ourselves, “What was her charism? What was the spiritual gift given to her for the sake of the community? How does that charism continue today?” When we examine the life of this remarkable woman, we can identify...