Search Results for label/Human Rights Day
Getting too many results? To search for an exact phrase, try putting multiple word phrases in quotation marks (such as "Saint Mother Theodore") to narrow your results.
Welcoming our 2021 WVC Summer Interns!
...ever-chancing garden while attending Woods Day Care/Pre-School … At IU, I have taken comprehensive water resource, management and environmental courses to strengthen my knowledge in these fields. “Nature has its own movement, and to this day, I am still trying to grasp its delicate dance. I am actively engaged in two sustainability clubs on campus, as well as volunteer at Mother Hubbard’s Cubbard, where eliminating food barriers is the principal value of the nonprofit food pantry. This internship at WVC...
Congregation collaborates with others to create ‘Death Row Visitation Project’
...essentially in isolation. They have little contact. This is a small attempt to respect and honor their basic need for human connection, to reach out in love to them and to their loved ones.” Several Sisters of Providence have ministered as spiritual advisors to death row residents throughout the years, offering hope and healing, and many have attended and were there during the aforementioned execution spree. Sister Barbara said helping the families of those on death row by setting up...
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
...things that they have traditionally observed, the purification of cups and jugs and kettles and beds. So, the Pharisees and scribes questioned him. “Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?” He responded, “Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts....
Get to know Providence Associate Julia Lopez-Kaley
...Twin Cities area. It is a privilege to be with individuals and families at end-of-life. I provide support, presence, deep empathy and collaborative music experiences during often intimate, challenging and beautiful moments in a person’s transition to what is next. What are you passionate about and why? I am passionate about the human experience, human connection and the responsibilities that all humans hold to care for and respect each other and Creation. I believe that continued personal growth, growth of...
Season of Creation 2021 Prayer
Note: We wanted to share this prayer from Season of Creation, the organization’s 2021 World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, which is September 1, 2021. More information on Season of Creation can be accessed here. Creator of All, We are grateful that from your communion of love you created our planet to be a home for all. By your Holy Wisdom you made the Earth to bring forth a diversity of living beings that filled the soil,...
Forest Bathing
...trees swishing in the wind, a squirrel scurrying along the forest floor, an unseen bird somewhere high up in a tree singing its distinctive song. It is when we use all our senses to connect with the forest that ‘the magic happens.’” Dr. Li summarizes the importance of forest bathing with these words: “The forest (read The Woods) is like our mother, a sacred place, a gift to us humans from the divine. It is a paradise of healing.” Ingrained...
What does it mean to love my neighbor as myself? A visit to the border
Sister Joni, Postulant Leslie and Sister Tracey during the visit to Nogales Recently Leslie Dao, our postulant, and I had the opportunity to volunteer in Nogales, Mexico at Kino Border Initiative. Our own Sister of Providence Tracey Horan ministers as Associate Director of Education and Advocacy there. Kino helps promote policies that affirm the dignity of the human person. Kino also imparts humanitarian assistance and accompanies migrants who have found themselves fleeing terrible violence, in many cases fleeing for their...
The Season of Creation 2022: Listen to the Voice of Creation
...Each Sunday and Wednesday, the Climate Change Task Force will provide opportunities to journey to care for all of creation. We invite each sister, associate and reader to respond as we move forward in our Laudato Si’ Action Platform commitment to climate justice. The logo for Season of Creation 2022, the burning bush, will appear on all Season of Creation 2022 communications. The bush contrasts the fire of so many unnatural fires that aggravate the climate crisis, with the sign...
Season of Creation 2022: Eco-Spirituality
Note: We are celebrating the Season of Creation (Sept. 1, World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation through Oct. 4, the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi). The Sisters of Providence Climate Change Task Force will share 10 blogs, with this being the sixth in the series. We hope you enjoy them. “The ecological problem is essentially a spiritual problem.” – Pope Francis “The awareness that each creature reflects something of God and has a message to convey...
Providence Associate Stephen Modde on finding a safe and welcoming community
...the Woods who I have kept contact with, say, “We always suspected you were gay.” Ray, the husband of Providence Associate Stephen Modde, takes his photo with Sister Carol Meyers on the day of Steve’s first commitment as a Providence Associate in 2019 Life today Fast forward. In Chicago for 22 years I worked in human resources at five hospitals and medical centers. A vice president of human resources, at age 65 and burnt-out, I retired. For six years I’ve been married...
December 25, 2022: The Nativity of the Lord
Gospel: John 1:1-18 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. A man named John was sent from God....
Congregation shares LCWR statement in response to Colorado shootings
...free from violence. Our hearts and prayers go out to those family members, friends, and members of the LGBTQ+ community as they grieve the loss of those killed and injured in the Colorado Springs shooting on Saturday, November 19. As women of the Gospel, we stand in opposition to all forms of exclusion and violence committed against any member of the human family. There can be no tolerance for hate. We pledge ourselves to work for the change of structures...