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Season of Creation 2022: Most Important Actions We Can All Do
...Install low- P spigots, or select the “eco” setting on laundry machines and dishwashers. Minimize number of loads. Consider shorter showers, etc. Use cold water when possible, Save our trees. Buy eco-friendly paper products (paper towels, toilet paper, tissues, etc.) Try Swede dish cloths. Read “Best Eco-Friendly Toilet Paper, Paper Towel, and Tissues, As per Natural Resources Defense Council Report here, Use energy efficient appliances and lights. Replace appliances with Energy Star rated lights and buy LED lights for home,...
‘The Glorious Impossible’
...gloriously impossible feat of sending us His son in the form of a human infant, we must aspire more than ever to actively commit to our mission of bringing Love, Mercy and Justice to this broken world. As Mother Teresa said, “There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.” In this blessed time of Christmas, may we never forget that we are called to spread that healing light to others....
March 31, 2024: Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of the Lord
...going beyond death. Jesus dwells with us. The imminent coming of God’s reign has happened! It has been spoken of as an explosion of light and an explosion of love, and good news to be proclaimed. This joyful news of Jesus with us is to be shared. Go. Tell. Speaking of our sharing, Pope Francis reminds us that “by telling (the good news), we also repeat it to ourselves and somehow make it come alive again. If this happens for...
Christmas Eve Candlelight Vigil
December 24, 2024 at 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST Church of the Immaculate Conception 1 Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 Sisters of Providence Free The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, are inviting people of all faith traditions to join them for a Christmas Eve Candlelight Vigil beginning at 7 p.m., on Tuesday, December 24. The service will include readings and song and will take place in the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods....
Celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
...U.S. world and the global world right now, there is war, violence, racism, and pain of every kind. As Christians, a month ago, we celebrated the Light of God coming into the world, bringing peace and goodwill. Yet, there seems not to be goodwill and light for all. A saying of Martin Luther King Jr. may be our guide this January 20: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can...
Revisiting a Spooky Legend
...frozen out?’” Isabel replied, “I’m sick and tired of that nun coming around.” Sister Esther asked her who the nun was. Isabel did not know because this nun always stood between her and the light. “She leaves when I speak to her,” Isabel told Sister Esther, “and I never see her face.” “And there,” suggested Sister Esther, “is your Faceless Nun.” Bothersome Nun Isabel had another encounter with this “Faceless Nun.” Sister Esther entered the big art room where Isabel...
How to become a saint – Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s Feast Day 2009
Many of us here remember the safe landing of US Airways Flight # 1549 into the Hudson River this past January. A total of 155 persons aboard — no lives lost; pilot and crew performing gracefully and competently under the worst kind of pressure. We heard words like remarkable, extraordinary, heroic. One passenger even used miraculous. But in interview after interview, the pilot, Captain Sullenberger (Sully) would explain the successful landing and safe evacuation of passengers and crew this way:...
Sister Mary Montgomery
...school. This was my idea about psychology because I really wanted to go to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She said, “If you are going to go anywhere, you are going to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.” My insides were dancing. I didn’t let her know. I was attracted to follow Jesus. I witnessed joy, compassion, service, love, faith, good sense of humor in most of the sisters I had encountered which I interpreted an expression of following Jesus. Q. You never had the proverbial lightning...
A prayer for a nun in a wheelchair
...the bright light of God goes with her in the monstrance behind her dimming eyes. The sacred has performed its slow alchemy. The wheelchair hypnotically clacks the revolutions of her exit. She is maneuvered by the sister on duty to a sparse clean room with a crucifix and flowers and placed in the windowed light where she dwells with silence and the memory of praise and the dancing particles of the undying sun. A prayer shared with us by Sister...
Fair Trade: products that improve the lives of people on the margins
...because Linden Leaf Gifts is a store that worries less about keeping the lights on and more about how to bring light into the lives of marginalized people. As a ministry of the Sisters of Providence, Linden Leaf Gifts measures success a little differently than most retail stores. Success is derived also from the difference it can make in the lives of people that provide the unique products sold there. That’s why, in addition to Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and...
Father Dan raises a village
...A choir “performs” in the village. “Father Dan’s village includes several houses and shops, an airport (with a plane approaching and ready to land), a Post Office and a police station with a doughnut shop next door. You’ll see a choir performing carols and there’s wildlife, too, as a tiny fox peeks out among the buildings. The village is well lighted. Lights adorn the trees along the streets and homes are aglow. By golly, there’s even a full moon. “Who...
Sister Ann Michele Kiefer
...Out of her own experience of powerlessness Sister Ann Michele was able to “break boundaries and create hope” with and for others. She rejoiced in her recovery and shared openly her own experience, strength, and hope with many AIDS victims in the last years of their lives. Damien Center was for her a most profound experience of ministry. She became for HIV-affected persons, who are marginalized in our church and our society, a sign of God’s love, care and acceptance....