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January 28, 2024: Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...That good news included lifting up people who were burdened by many forms of illness. The man in today’s gospel was most likely suffering from a mental or emotional illness. There was no understanding of such illnesses at that time. Hopefully we have come a long way since then. And so, it was amazing for those who witnessed the response of the unclean spirits to Jesus command! And yet, today, conflict is causing unbelievable suffering for millions of people in...
Volunteer college students #Represent @theWoods!
...the internship program is living on campus in community with other interns, participating in enrichment activities and working full-time in the gardens. Emma likes to run and paint in her spare time. But probably not at the same time! RHIT Student Volunteer Evan Rose-Hulman student Evan Hailing from St. Louis, Evan is a junior mechanical engineering major at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT). After college, he hopes to work in product management. When thinking about his time at RHIT,...
Saint Mother Theodore’s Legacy Lives: Giving Day 2022
...Indianapolis, which brings hope to young women and men, all of whom demonstrate economic need, and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Sisters are also teachers at schools and universities across the U.S. Outreach to the poor – Providence Food Pantry and The Connecting Link in West Terre Haute provide food and access to services for our closest neighbors in need. Physical, emotional and spiritual healing – We sponsor Providence Health Care, Inc. at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. In Taiwan, Miracle Home provides eldercare, meals...
Sister Ann Stephen Stouffer
...principal at St. Anthony’s. Over all these assignments, Mother Theodore’s maxim: “Love the children first, and then teach them,” was intuitive to her. She told an interviewer, “I can’t imagine myself not working with children. Maybe that is because today was the first day back to school and I got so many hugs.” She expressed her philosophy this way: “I’ve been so convinced for a long time that education is the way these children can find a future of hope,...
When I’m rich: Providence dreams in the Desert
...to see this film (and we hope you will) you will see the people working in the fields. That’s what we see all the time, and yes, it is that hard. Our people here at Providence in the Desert go through a lot to make a better life for their families, and it is our privilege to help them in their struggle to break their boundaries and to give them hope. (This originally was written as an e-newsletter update from...
Sister Marilú Covani
...H. Hurtado, O.P., the associate director; Kathy Lindell, liturgical consultant; Anabelle Estrella, administrative secretary, Adriana Franco, liturgical formation and site coordinator and Chris Estrella, music assistant. “Worship is important today because it is where our common faith and relationship with God is celebrated in the liturgy. Some people go to church because they are doing their duty or they are in trouble with God. It’s a gift of hope, peace and a call to mission to help people to ‘connect’...
What has happened to us since that first Thanksgiving?
A view at Standing Rock. Both Pilgrims and Indians figured into my youthful vision of that first Thanksgiving in the New World. Even though I now know them as Native Americans and understand that America was a not new world for them, I have always held out hope that peoples of every tribe and nation could come together at table in peace. If we did it once … That hope has been shaken, however, by the events related to the...
I unite with all my sisters and all who share the charism of Providence …
...My sisters and fellow associates help me find hope when it is most difficult, help me see beauty when the landscape seems barren, and help me experience joy when all I feel is sadness. There is no one in the world who can challenge me to grow (or, sometimes, simply tell me to grow up) quite the way that one young sister does or who can help me find clarity the way that other sisters do. My fellow associates, too,...
Catholic and Gay
...healing to the sick food to the hungry housing to the homeless presence to the lonely hope to the hopeless you are the Gospel the Good News our aching world so desperately needs to know! Blessed are you reviled and persecuted yet persistent in faith, hope and love! Rejoice and be proud for in you God’s love is revealed! Read and Listen Pope Francis and the future of Catholic moral theology. (2025). Bryan N. Massingale. Unearthed comments from new people...
August 17, 2025: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...Gospel, faithful to God’s mission and courageous in the long haul. The time is now — not some far off tomorrow — to be God’s presence, to nonviolently and graciously face conflict and division, to boldly speak and act against evil, to deliberately find concrete ways to further the kingdom. Now is the time to be seeds of hope, of healing, of reconciliation and transformation. Suffering is inevitable. People of Hope, let’s continue to rely on Providence and enter deeply...
Sisters who served in Civil War to be honored
...National Society Daughters of the Union, 1861-65, Governor Oliver P. Morton Chapter, told Sister Marie Grace about an idea to honor the sisters who had served as nurses during the Civil War. Kennedy said she had read a story in HOPE Magazine – a publication of the Sisters of Providence – regarding the seven sisters and their work at City Hospital, located in Indianapolis. “Sister Marie Grace sent me two books, ‘The Hand of Providence,’ and ‘Lest We Forget,’ from...
Oral history: Sister Kathleen Desautels, change maker
...Josephine Desautels may have hoped her first-born daughter was dissuaded. She was not, and in part because of her mother’s influence. “If you are quite determined to belong entirely to God, to work with all your strength … I say to you with assurance, Come.” — Saint Mother Theodore Guerin When she was a senior at SMWC, she spoke with a Sister of Providence about her leanings. She entered the Congregation in September 1960, following her senior year of college....