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Sisters of Providence Support Seeking Justice and Denounce the Violence Inflicted on Black Americans since the Birth of This Nation
...work towards ending the individual and structural racism that has provoked the violence. As a predominantly white community of Roman Catholic women religious, we know we have work to do. We commit to further exploring our White privilege and understanding the intersectional nature of racism across the systems of power in our society. Fr. Bryan Massingale has described racism as a soul sickness. We declare ourselves sick as a nation. We are beginning to see White privilege as a source...
Facing institutionalized racism within myself
...systematic distribution of resources, power and opportunity in our society to the benefit of people who are white and the exclusion of people of color.” My own experience March for CommUNITY in Terre Haute, June 2020 Let me tell about my own personal experience of institutionalized racism. While it’s been a hard truth for me to accept, I realize that I don’t think of black people the same way I do white people. I went on a mission trip a...
Side by side: our time of need is now
...continuing to pray with and for you and all your needs. Let me assure you, your gift will support women who are a powerhouse of prayer. Count on them and their prayer! Once again, we have the opportunity to be great partners in accomplishing a worthy goal. Once again, we’ll have reason to keep singing: We may be ragged and funny but we’ll travel along singin’ our song, side by side. (Originally published in the Summer 2020 issue of HOPE magazine.)...
Against All Odds: Focus on Sister Mary Elise Renauldt, SP
...Theodore before her, she had a very strong attraction to the foreign missions, especially China. (The Bugle Call, p. 40) Though she received little encouragement from her sisters, through her steadfast persistence, Sister Mary Elise was finally accepted as one of the six sisters chosen from over 300 applicants. Notwithstanding Sister Mary Elise’s strong personality, Mother Mary Cleophas also recognized that Sister had other critical skills needed for the mission: “her keen observation, her remarkable powers of deduction and her...
Sisters of Providence react with prayer, advocacy to federal executions in Terre Haute
...eye.” In fact, Jesus urged all to “turn the other cheek.” As a Congregation, we call on our country to move beyond these barbaric rituals. Sister Paula Modaff prays the closing prayer during Sunday’s service, “God of compassion and justice, look with kindness upon your people and hear our prayer. In your goodness, you have given us the awesome power to generate life and also to take it away. Be with us, O God, as we keep vigil in our...
Good Shepherd Chapel formally blessed
...nourishment for their journey. Father Bernie truly knew Christ and the power of his resurrection.” Sister Dawn also recognized Earl Rodgers and Associates (the contractor for the chapel), Michael Shaw (project manager), Brad Bowen (director of the Congregation’s Facilities Management Department), and Hank Metzger (president of Hank Metzger Landscape), all of whom collaborated on the project. Oversight was provided by a small committee including Traci Tucker, the SP CFO, and Sister Ann Casper, who now ministers as the director of...
Sister educators reminisce about Sisters of Providence Schools
Sister Theresa Clare Carr with her classroom of second graders at Our Lady of Mercy School in Chicago in 1957. Several Sisters of Providence recently took a walk down memory lane reminiscing about Sisters of Providence Schools where we once taught. “Our goal always was to empower the students. My goal as a journalism and English teacher was to help them find their own voice and to figure out how they could make their own imprint on the world,” Sister...
Our sisters in Asia speak: What it means to be a Sister of Providence
From left, Sisters Celeste Tsai, Delan Ma and Su-Hsin Huang in 2017 as Sisters Celeste and Delan celebrate 50 years as Sisters of Providence Sister Delan Ma: “I am fortunate to have good sisters in the community to accompany, listen and guide me. I came to the Sisters of Providence community to serve God and to serve other people. When there are difficulties or problems, after prayer and meditation, things are easy to solve. I know that this healing power...
Embracing technology to further the Sisters of Providence mission
...a Sister of Providence. Sister Joni plans to continue these virtual discernments. “These sessions seem successful in providing a safe place for those wishing to discern and to learn how religious life has evolved and whether it might be a good fit.” She envisions the ministry evolving in other ways to connect women with Sisters of Providence and their stories. “The sharing of our journey is powerful. It reminds me of how far I have come and how Providence is...
Nine days of prayer with Mary, Queen of the Home
...at Cana, for we trust that whatever you ask of your Son will be done. Pray for us on our pilgrimage that we may share the faith and hope that marked your life. Full of confidence in your power before God, we place ourselves, our loved ones and all our petitions in your providential care. Amen. Find the complete Novena to Our Lady of Providence here. Let a sister light a candle for you at the National Shrine of Our...
Journals and Letters week 5: The measure of the woman
[Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters“: p. 29 to top of p. 39. Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin‘s writings every week in the coming year.] No surprise here. Ten pages of Journals and Letters and way too much material to consider. Should I highlight her humor — especially those times I don’t think she meant to be funny? After attending Mass in a church in New York, Mother Theodore wrote: “The speaker seemed...
2020 Christmas letter from General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski
...in darkness have seen a great light.” (Isaiah) The promises of God were fulfilled. Not only their hopes, but also the hopes of a world waiting for a Messiah, for the dawn of a new age were born in Jesus the Christ. I have been reflecting on Mary and Joseph as I prepare for my own Advent journey, and as I try to get my mind and heart around what Christmas will be like this year. Will I allow the...