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Week 2: daily Lenten reflections with Saint Mother Theodore
Join us this second week of Lent in daily spiritual reflections with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. Check the blog each Sunday during Lent for short reflections created by Postulant Emily TeKolste for each day of the coming week. Sunday, March 5 “Then the devil took Jesus up to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence, and he said to him, ‘All these I shall give to you, if you will prostrate...
Sister Margaret Nau (formerly Sister Jude Ann)
...the nurses and other caregivers, and the doctors are each God’s face and hands supporting and caring for them.” It was at Christ Hospital that Peggy herself came to experience God’s face and hands supporting and caring for her. It was unusual for her not to show up for her lunch date on her Monday day off, but when she didn’t show up for work on Tuesday, March 4, 2013, concerned co-workers broke into her apartment to find her on...
Sister Rosemary (Mary Gilbert) Powers
...Rosemary spent most of her day praying the office, not simply Lauds and Vespers, but praying all day. The nurses who cared for her loved her being right there with them most of the day, loved her laughter and her pleasant ways. One told me that Thanksgiving Day Sister Rosemary called her over and said, ‘Thank you for all the good care you have given me,’” shared Sister Margaret. “And now it is our turn to say, Sister Rosemary, thank...
Be kind. It’s bumpy out there.
...day. Surprise someone! Delight someone by doing the unexpected kindness! Widen my circle and acknowledge my oneness with a stranger, with someone completely unknown to me! And, use the day to follow another teaching of Jesus: Let the one who has eyes to see, see and the one who has ears to hear listen. In other words, be attentive, notice all the kindnesses extended to me or to those around me — on any old, ordinary day. Kindnesses occur so...
2025 Reflection for Providence Associate Commitment Liturgy
Note: The following is the reflection that was authored by General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski for the 2025 Providence Associates rite of first commitment and renewal Mass and Ceremony, which took place on Saturday, October 11, 2025. The 2025 incoming Providence Associates were welcomed by the Providence Community during the Rite of Commitment and Renewal Mass and Ceremony on Saturday, October 11, 2025. New Associates include (front, from left) Jessena Goddard and Beth Purcell, (second row) Katherine Ryan, Molly Burke...
Newsnotes
...retires. The 8th Day Center for Justice was founded in 1974 by six Catholic congregations of women and men religious, including the Sisters of Providence. First Sister Dorothy Gartland and then Sister Kathleen Desautels have ministered at 8th Day from its beginning till the present. The ministry acts as a critical alternative voice to oppressive systems and works to change those systems. We are so grateful for all the good work, service and advocating for others, that these sisters and...
In the Footsteps of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...Hoc and Normandy beach. Several of us related stories that our fathers told about D-Day and World War II. Our visits to the American, British and German cemeteries underscored the horror and tragic loss of war. Our trip back to the hotel was quiet as we processed the day’s events. Providence Associate Adrienne Bates-Brown takes a selfie in Luxembourg Gardens. The home of St. Therese of Lisieux in Alencon and the shrine to her parents, Saints Zelie and Louis Martin,...
Summer Teen Volunteer Opportunity benefits elders, teens
...feel like I’ve completed God’s mission in life by being present for the sisters. Because of that feeling, I volunteer again and again to make the sisters’ day brighter. Making the sisters happy instills a kind of joy that makes each day a little better.” Evangeline Hutson, Marshall, Illinois “Volunteering is the one thing that can make me happy no matter what mood I am in. It makes me feel so happy and needed when I know that just my...
Language barriers, smiles and unexpected gifts: Sister Denise Wilkinson reflects from France
...looks just like theirs.) Did I expect that these otherwise wonderful women don’t have the custom of celebrating St Patrick’s Day? What? No shamrocks? No Irish soda bread? No wearin’ of the green? Nope! And they are as interested in why we do as I am in why they don’t. Now I know that having waded into the water, I am enjoying whatever each day brings. Smiles as comfort I am getting to know each sister by paying attention to...
Photos! Providence Associate retreat 2017
...the procession to the evening vigil at the shrine. Retreat leader and Providence Associate Diann Neu and Providence Associate Sandra Hartlieb lead the retreatants on a pilgrimage walk through the halls of Providence Hall to the shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin for the Saturday evening vigil. Sister Mary Montgomery and Providence Associate Elizabeth Barkley lead the procession to the shrine. Providence Associates and sisters keep vigil with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin at her shrine on Saturday night. Providence Associates...
Going the extra mile this Lent
Journey is defined as “an act of traveling from one place to another.” It comes from the Old French journee “a day’s length, a day’s work or travel” and from the Latin diurnum meaning “day.” Lent, for me, has always been just that, a journey. I am traveling through each of these 40 days of Lent and it is the journey experience that becomes the underpinning of what Lent means to me, what it becomes for me. As with any...
Reflecting on Palm Sunday 2019
...King of the Jews, save yourself.” Or, best of all, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Like: I wish I’d never said yes to writing this blog. But, I did. So here’s my one slender thread of a thought. Does Palm Sunday mark the beginning of the last chapter in the life of Jesus? Or does Palm Sunday mark the end of believing that there is a last chapter in the life of Jesus? Or in the life of any of us?...