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Connecting Link celebrating 20 years of ministry
...Sister Dorothy said. “That was the best stamp of approval. I couldn’t do this by myself.” During the open house, gift bags that highlight ministry partners, including Providence Food Pantry, The Helping Hands and Providence Housing Corporation, will be handed out. In addition, a newsletter will be offered highlighting events during The Connecting Link’s 20 years of service, and a slideshow will run offering press clippings and photos of the ministry’s history. A light lunch, including hot dogs and chips,...
Firing up hope: SP prayer ministries
...Office of the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, assures. The Chapel Room in the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. Prayer seekers wishing to have a physical symbol of their intentions being placed before God in prayer may request a sister also light a five-day votive candle at either shrine. To arrange for a candle to be lit, fill out the online form at LightaCandle.SistersofProvidence.org. Donations to help cover the cost of the candles are welcome. “Taking hours” in...
Sister Pauline Brockelsby
...go out for some ice cream. Family visits were a definite highlight. The entire Brockelsby clan seems to have come under the spell of the Woods when her sister Jude brought her daughters to visit. This tradition continued when niece Kati later brought her daughters along. They would stay for a week at a time, allowing the grandnieces to explore the campus as they got to know their great aunt. Having become a patient herself seemed to have revived Pauline’s...
Sister Marianne (Trinita Marie) McGriffin
...Redeemer, Berwyn, Md. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sister Marianne ministered in religious education in the Diocese of South Bend-Fort Wayne, Ind.; Mother of Good Counsel Parish, Louisville, Ky.; and St. Vincent de Paul Parish, Elkhart, Ind. “Throughout the 1970s, as Sister Marianne ministered in religious education in several parishes, she began to recognize — in her own life and in the lives of others — the astounding power of art to encourage and enrich growth in the spiritual life....
Gracious, spacious and precious: Lent 2012
...action will widen my embrace of all by being more mindful of how my patterns of living oppress others who have little, oppress Earth itself. An act of fasting is simple and can seem insignificant but it has power to change my awareness and so change my behaviors. I sure would prefer another way though! During Lent, I make it a point to find and send a gift to an organization or cause that I ordinarily don’t support financially but...
The 2011 installation of the General Officers
...of the future imagined by God and shown to us by Jesus. We live for the sake of the kin-dom of God – the kin-dom recognized by its inclusivity, forgiveness and reconciliation, and all those puzzling paradoxes – the last shall be first; the weak will be powerful; the master will be servant; the foolish are wise; we die to live. Who will bring about this kin-dom of God, this better future for Earth and Earth’s people? Who will perform...
Easter 2011
...the powers of suffering and death. Pastels don’t insist or demand our constant presence at the tombs of life; they gently lead us to the shore where we find Jesus — in one of his followers — cooking breakfast for us. And as we break that bread, lovingly prepared and shared, we coax one another to take one small but sure step deeper into the vivid life of an Easter people, the brilliant and shining life of an alleluia people....
Principles of non-violence
...goal of eliminating racism. Early on, this team adopted and passed on to all of us involved the definition of racism employed by Crossroads Ministry: racism = prejudice [systemic misuse of] power. This definition requires thoughtful and careful analysis of our SP structures and systems. It is a challenging definition because it moves us beyond feeling into action on behalf of those who suffer from the often-unconscious exercise of white privilege throughout our Congregation systems and processes. It goes without...
O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting? – Easter 2009
...actions responding to so many kinds of tragedies. The witness of faith communities in the face of the violence of war, of the death penalty, of ecological devastation speaks of the power of collective action on behalf of the common good. The unending love and life of God surge through these experiences, no doubt. It seems to me that it is this very “conviction in the midst of chaos” that we carry into Holy Week and into our experience of...
Personal stories from bell and chimes ringers
...of a sister dying away from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, a ‘lookout’ novice watched from an attic window and sent a signal to the novice waiting to ring the toll as the retinue advanced up the road from the foot of the hill. “My worst experience was forgetting a bell completely. The novice passed me the alarm clock at 4:30, and I promptly became engrossed in what I was doing until ‘the powers that be’ [found out]. Yes, I heard about it!”...
Young woman’s letters help explain formation
...teachers. Sister Mary’s reflections on her formation years were so powerful that her messages were deemed perfect for sharing. Here are some random passages from the “Dear Jean” letters that reveal Sister Mary’s excitement and devotion: “O, Jean, can you imagine how happy I am? I am going into another world.” “I have big news for you. Imagine our joy when Sister told us we were to receive our black caps and religious names on St. Joseph’s Day.” “The days...
Easter Transformation in the Christian Life
A reflection by Sister Ruth Eileen Dwyer As the natural world begins to show the first signs of transformation to new life in spring beauty, the followers of Jesus celebrate another transforming event in human history. We move through Lent to the days of Holy Week with their powerful accounts of the life, suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus, whose spirit transforms us in our call to witness to Jesus’ ongoing presence in the world. We move from there to...