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Sister Jessica Vitente enters novitiate with Sisters of Providence
...in human development from California State University, Long Beach. Sister Marsha Speth and the rest of the Congregation applaud for their new novice, Sister Jessica Vitente During her canonical novice year, Sister Jessica and Sister Janice Smith, who ministers as the Congregation’s director of novices, will live in St. Louis at the Collaborative Dominican Novitiate (CDN). This particular entity consists of women from various Dominican communities all of whom are part of the larger Inter-community Novitiate (ICN) study program of...
Wisdom and the future of religious life
...issues of human trafficking, labor exploitation and violence against women and children. Religious life will definitely survive as long as there are women and men who proclaim the Gospel imperatives and risk being agents of change in our divided world.” Sixteen years a Sister of Providence, Sister Laura Parker’s reflections seem to sum up hope for the future of religious life. “Religious life will evolve as it always has – meeting people where they are and assisting them to be...
Faces of our future: a new generation of Sisters of Providence
...Spanish, began a new ministry in mid-July with the KINO Border Initiative in Nogales, Arizona/Nogales, Mexico. This is a faith-based group founded by several Catholic organizations. Their vision is to help make humane, just and workable migration between the U.S. and Mexico a reality. At this time in history, the Sisters of Providence are very grateful to have a presence at the border in our Sister Tracey. Sister Anna Fan Sister Anna Fan entered the Sisters of Providence from Taiwan...
Interculturality: journey of radical welcome
...“that exist between culturally diverse human groups in a given society.” From the beginning Interculturality, as a dynamic, has been part of the fabric of the Congregation throughout its history. Granted, it was not always named and celebrated. Mother Theodore and her companions brought the cultural heritages of the Celts and the people of Brittany, France and of the Roman Catholic Church to the mid-western frontier of the United States. There they met and engaged with Native Americans and settlers...
Day by day with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...fragments from her letters that shine with Mother Theodore’s humanness. For example, Sister Maria (referenced earlier) received this rather crisp response from Mother Theodore. “You are very foolish, my dear Sister, to be tormenting your imagination with the fear of losing your mind. …Believe me, my daughter; we cannot lose what we never had.“ In moments of annoyance and crabbiness, I can hear Mother Theodore saying to me: “There are some among you who are like old Bouraux. This was...
Sister Marie Alexis Geiger
...up, I didn’t want to disappoint. She was an amazing human being and I wish I was able to see her one more time. Rest in heaven, Sister Marie … you made a MASSIVE impact in my life.” Because Sister Marie Alexis was my band member, her death has brought back many memories of our early days together. When we entered the novitiate in 1946, we were a band of 28 – now we are a band of four. When...
Providence Associates: addressing the needs in our backyards
...however, belong to Indivisible East Tennessee. When I was still working, I advocated for the Affordable Care Act among colleagues at the diocese because many of them reflexively took the Catholic Church’s negative position on the Affordable Care Act. As human resources director, I recognized the range of people we employed — from minimum wage janitor and cafeteria workers to six-figure high school principals. Though our health plan at that time was rich and relatively cheap to employees, it was...
Reflection and prayer for Black History Month
...with her head down because people looked at her as property. Marie had grown up where people looked past her African features to treat her as a useful citizen. Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange Though her master’s son Gideon taunted her that God didn’t hear the prayer of slaves, Harriet knew that the Bible said that God shows no partiality. She knew in her heart that God doesn’t see as humans see. Clearly she felt the inner strength of God’s touch...
Sister Ellen Cunningham (formerly Sister Michael Aquinas)
...a line or two in a conversation. Titles of some papers Ellen presented at mathematical and science meetings include: “Matt to Save Lives – modeling the spread of AIDS;” “Linear Algebra and the Long-Distance Learner;” “Consorting with Biologists: Approaches to Biocomplexity and Environmental Modeling.” Even in her scholarly presentations, Ellen’s commitment to a more just world shone forth. As erudite as Ellen was, her students described her in very human terms: Wonderful, wise, gentle, a true mentor, kind, gracious, shining...
This Good Friday: Is COVID-19 the only pandemic about which we need to pray?
...alone in their sorrow for their loved one. His dignity has been restored. “May these atrocities never happen again.” Terry Ward said. May these atrocities never happen again. Let us not abandon each other. To learn more about the Terre Haute Facing Injustice project, click here. Supporters of the project through collaboration and/or donations: The Interfaith Council of the Wabash Valley, NAACP Branch #3068, Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, The Terre Haute Human Relations Commission, Vigo County Historical Society....
Easter people in the midst of a pandemic
...to breathe, to cleanse the air of the carbon dioxide. We have seen the beauty of Christ within people. We have heard the singing from the balconies of Italy, the handclaps of grateful people in New York for their health care frontline workers, the essential workers, the foodservice deliveries. We have seen the beauty of humanity come forth as Christ came forth from the grave. We are an Easter people filled with hope, with love, and with Christ. Celebrate Easter!...
What to pack for the journey
...think those words have meaning for the current journey we are on in dealing with the coronavirus because times like this bring out both the best and worst in humanity. This is what I wrote: I’m beginning to have a small sense of how hard it was to leave, much less to face and endure the horrors of the concentration camp. Most of all Etty, I would hope to pack for the journey: Your spirit of solidarity with others who...