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HOPE summer 2017 — I’ll meet you in the field
...heat … I could go on. Virtually nothing that we know about Earth is untouched by climate change. And no one. Providence spirituality in action: Sister Kathleen Desautels and 8th Day Center for Justice I started thinking about everything I had seen from Sister Kathleen during my time at 8th Day. What I saw was Providence Spirituality in action. In our conversations over those two years, I had heard many of Sister Kathleen’s stories, her thoughts and her prayers. I...
Sister Catherine Celine Brocksmith: ‘Innate wisdom and good-natured prudence’
...time on the General Council helped Sister Catherine Celine personally get to know many sisters. “The living memory of the Congregation holds Catherine Celine as a leader who brought her genuine love of people to the ministry of congregational administration,” Sister Therese Guerin wrote. “Hundreds of sisters experienced her compassion and down to earth common sense.” Sister Catherine Celine died on Feb. 23, 1998. She was 92 years old and was a Sister of Providence for 74 years. #throwbackthursday #tbt...
Go out and make a difference
...pay a six-figure salary. On the contrary, I have no earthly idea where the pursuit will take me, but I am learning to trust in Providence. The Providence, which, our foundress Saint Mother Theodore reminds us, “has never failed us.” When I look at the person in the mirror, I like who I am becoming. Invitation to “go out and make a difference” I had an opportunity to see and meet Sister Joan Chittister at a conference in San Antonio,...
A ‘Golden Jubilee’ Reflection
...to how Jesus lived on this earth … a religious must never abandon prophecy.” And how are religious to be prophetic? Pope Francis says: “… with the eloquence of your lives, lives which radiate the joy and beauty of living the Gospel and following Christ to the full. … by learning from Jesus the meaning and practice of love. (You) will be able to love because (you) have his own heart.” How have you followed Christ to the full these...
Reflections on 50 years
...learned in these 50 years as a Sister of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana? Of what am I certain? “I’ve learned that community is essential to living. It sustains and supports me more than I could ever imagine. “I’ve learned that in community, one never stops learning –even if you wanted to! I continue to learn more and more about God, self, earth, others, the Cosmos, the Christ. “I’m certain that through it all, the Provident God, the Love-God, the...
Sister Bernadette Mary Carroll
Sister Bernadette Mary Carroll A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew: “At the time Jesus answered: I give praise to you, God of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike, ‘Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of...
Everything about autumn can be spiritual
...like us longing to stay – how everything lives, shifting from one bright vision to another … -Mary Oliver, A Poet’s Nod to Autumn The autumnal equinox marks the “exact moment when the sun crosses the celestial equator – the imaginary line in the sky above Earth’s equator” (timeanddate.com). Imagine – the exact moment … The heavens declare the glory of the Creator; the firmament proclaims the handiwork of love. -Nan C. Merrill, Psalm 19; Psalms for Praying Summer fades...
2017 Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Feast Day reflection
...to be a member of the living Body of Christ. And perhaps it is what St. Luke means when he writes: “it is God’s good pleasure to open to you the reign of God.” The good news of Jesus the Christ is that we participate in bringing about that reign of God with lives lived in love, a reign characterized by unity, healing of Earth, wholeness of relationships and peace. Jesus was the Christ because of his extraordinary incarnation of...
2017 reflection for Foundation Day
...be done on Earth as it is in heaven. May our missionaries edify that new world by the practice of all the virtues of which our divine master has given the example. Above all, may they say of these dear ones of ours what was said of the first Christians, “See how they love one another.” I pray this day that they will have confidence and be at peace that the God who so clothes the grass of the field,...
Every day is a gift
...her son who, instead of leaving her alone, carried her across a river to safe haven for refugees. Another person was grateful that he was able to get out of Myanmar with his wife and children – and nothing else. What a contrast of existence we experience on this Earth that we all call home. And what a contrast in the blessings for which we are grateful! Reasons to be grateful, like many things, are relative. And always, we can...
Providence Associates, Sisters of Providence: 10 years in relationship
...and parish administrator, ending as a school superintendent. My relationship as a Providence Associate confirms my gratitude with many opportunities to ‘give back.’” Sheila says, “Our common vision is based on a reverence for the Earth, a desire to serve the poor and care for the elderly.” Lorraine Kirker (PA ’10) describes her relationship with the Sisters of Providence as “an unbroken thread since first grade at St. Polycarp in Somerville, Massachusetts. I can’t imagine ever not being connected to...
A reflection for Holy Week
...March and enter the Triduum days, let us remember Jesus’ model of service as he washed the feet of the disciples and called them to break bread in remembrance of him. Let us remember his willingness to give everything, even his life, so that justice might prevail on Earth. And in the emptiness of Holy Saturday, as we await that triumphal celebration of New Life, let us vow not to stay in our tombs, waiting complacently for human rights to...