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Unity and difference: blessings of engagement for local church members and the Sisters of Providence
...talk honestly and express grief, anger and concern. They didn’t just pretend everything was okay. But, they never expressed hate or vindictiveness, always hope and love,” Karen said. “I thought to myself, ‘The world needs more of this, this way of dealing with difficult situations.’ So, I decided to become an associate. Sister Marsha Speth was my companion during my candidate year and she was wonderful. I am so grateful for that year.” Karen became an associate in 2013. Central...
Counsel and guidance to middle schoolers
...up when I leave work. I just hope I didn’t miss a student in crisis who needed to see me before the school day ended. It’s hard when you have approximately 900 students and only one school counselor.” So, what keeps you doing this, I ask. “I absolutely love it,” Lorrie responds, her enthusiasm evident. “I love the energy and excitement and discovery students go through during this stage of their lives. It is a very challenging time in their...
Sisters and interns: becoming a little bit of each other
...of them,” she said. “I just hope that I’m as lucky as these women in this community someday to have what they have with all the people who love them. They have so many people that surround them in their daily life.” Impacting each other Sister Ruth Johnson, SP, (formerly Sister Joseph Maurice) spends many hours a week doing her fiber art at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. She said the interns have an impact on the Sisters of Providence,...
Transformed by these Woods
...it was for me the portion of my inheritance, and I hope to dwell in it all the days of my life.” Elsewhere in her journals, we find her reflection on sensing the divine in the beauty and bounty of creation: “In each excursion,” she writes in 1850, “we discover something marvelous, beautiful, and useful in the magnificent forests of Indiana. At each step we can admire the grandeur, the power, the goodness of God. How bountifully He provides for...
Prayer to the Providence of God
...leave your care. Though my faults are many, my misery great, my spiritual poverty extreme, my hope in you surpasses all. it is superior to my weakness, greater than my difficulties, stronger than death. Though temptations should assail me, I will hope in you; though I break my resolutions, I will look to you confidently for grace to keep them at last. though you should ask me to die, even then I will trust in you, for you are my...
If ever this poor little Community…
If ever this poor little Community becomes settled, it will be established on the cross; and that is what gives me confidence and makes me hope, sometimes even against hope.
Prayer for homecoming
Bless us, most loving provident God, may this coming home be a re-creation and experience of hospitality and hope. May all who enter this home, may all who walk through these doors know and feel your love and presence. Keeping watch on our going out and our coming in, no one is stranger, all are guest; no one is alien, all are friend. May the life celebrated in each room in this house give delight and honor and reverence to...
A reflection on the Feast of Our Lady of Providence, Queen of the Home
...mentions it to Jesus, and says to the servers: “Do whatever he tells you.” What was the source of that calm command? How did she know what would happen? We needn’t look far for answers: Mary’s bedrock of faith, her font of hope, her heart of love – in other words, her trust in God’s providential care – assure her, as she has assured us through the centuries, that Providence never fails. (“Do whatever he tells you,” after all, is...
Throwback Thursday: Pray the Novena of Our Lady of Providence
On Saturday, Nov. 16 the Sisters of Providence will celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Providence in a special Mass at 11 a.m. in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. As is tradition we invite you to join us and pray a novena to Mary the nine days leading up to the Feast. We hope this article written by Sister Mary Rita Griffin and published on Nov. 2, 2015 helps get you started. I came across a prayer we...
Easter blessings and prayerful support
The Sisters of Providence wish you a happy Easter. We hope Sister Dawn’s messages bring you some comfort during this difficult time. Please know that the sisters are praying for you. https://youtu.be/giSQFU3EOkg You can also see the Sisters of Providence 2020 Easter card below. Dear Friends in Providence, Had you been with the women on Easter morning and found the tomb of Christ empty, would you have dared to shake with joy? Joy — the quiet confidence that ultimately everything...
A reflection on the 2021 Providence Associate Commitment and Renewal
...Providence Associate Co-Director Debbie Dillow We were and are amazed by the depth of your connections to us – some of you have known us all your lives. We were and are touched by the sincerity of your desire to develop your own spiritual lives – you seem eager to enter more deeply into the mystery we call Providence. And we were and are inspired by the earnestness of your commitment to the mission of Providence – you do hope...
A year of St. Joseph, family protector
...and Mary kept each other hopeful as they searched faces on their way back to the temple. And there was Jesus in the temple speaking with the teachers. What relief! What joy tinged with parental frustration! Creatively courageous Pope Francis describes Saint Joseph as “…a beloved father, a tender and loving father, an obedient father, an accepting father; a father who is creatively courageous, a working father, a father in the shadows. (Patris Corde). As we celebrate the birth of...