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Holiday Celebrations Around Our Table: Christmas Lunch
...Claus. Printed photos will be available for an additional fee. Letters to Santa: Write and send your holiday wishes to the North Pole. Live Music: Enjoy festive live performances throughout the event. Silent Auction: Browse and bid on beautifully crafted holiday wreaths. Children’s Menu: Special offerings available to delight younger guests. Create lasting memories this holiday season while supporting the Woods. Reserve your table today! While visiting, discover the perfect holiday gifts at Linden Leaf Gifts, featuring a curated selection...
Celebrating National Women’s Equality Day!
...the urging of his mother. On Aug. 26, 1920, his vote for ratification pushed Tennessee into the ‘yes’ column for the passage of the 19th amendment. Special designation Fifty-one years later in 1971, Representative Bella Abzug, a feminist and civil rights’ advocate, entered another bill into the U.S. Congress that designated August 26 as “Women’s Equality Day.” Her bill directed the president to authorize and proclaim annually this day in commemoration of the day in August 1920 on which the women...
Newsnotes
...the Rooney Library on the college campus that evening as sisters and students bonded together over chocolate, fresh fruit and more! Fair trade coffee and hot chocolate were also available. Sister Mary Montgomery helps coordinate the event annually with campus minister Andrea Beyke in collaboration with the Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Scholarship students. This photo shows the Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Scholarship students showing off their “I’m a Fan” stickers they received during the event. Foundation Day service day Students...
Public invited to Feast Day of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...statue on a misty morning. A feast day in the Catholic tradition is a day set aside to commemorate the life of saintly individuals or a specific event. Saint Mother Theodore Guerin founded the Sisters of Providence in 1840. She was born Anne-Therese Guerin on Oct. 2, 1798, in the village of Etables in Brittany, France. She was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on Oct. 15, 2006, and her feast day was designated for Oct. 3. She is the first...
National World Kindness Day
What is World Kindness Day and when and where and why did it begin? World Kindness Day is a holiday that promotes the importance of being kind to each other, to yourself, and to the world. The purpose of this day is to help everyone understand that kindness is what binds us all together. This understanding has the power to bridge the gap between nations. With kindness, we can overcome the divides of politics, race, religion, gender, and so much...
Wedding gown tradition
...and remembers looking forward to receiving the habit and knowing that she was a Sister of Providence. “It was nice to meet the family again, dressed in a habit,” she said of the day. She wore the habit every day for nearly half her life. “I liked it while I had it, but this is more comfortable,” Sister Gertrude Eileen says of the clothes she wears today. After receiving her habit in 1949 at the age of 27, Sister Delia...
An Inspirational ‘Be Humble’ Day
Six Saint Mother Theodore Guerin quotes on humility Were you aware that “Be Humble” Day even existed? I was not until a recent web search. The day is February 22. According to daysoftheyear.com, on Be Humble Day, no one is allowed to boast and no one is allowed to brag about their success. The point is for all of us to encourage others on this day. With that in mind, for this year’s Be Humble Day, we offer you all...
The Sisters of Providence mission: living the Gospel today
...our service?” Sister Leslie Dao, SP, offers Communion to Sister Martha Rojo, SP, during a Mass at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Same mission, new times Today, our mission is very much the same. Our website proclaims: “A community of vowed Catholic women religious, we joyfully live out the radical Gospel message of love, mercy and justice in today’s world. Inspired by our foundress Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, we are passionate about our lives of prayer, education, service and advocacy. We dedicate ourselves...
Celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
January 20, 2025, Martin Luther King Jr., a National Holiday, was enacted after 6 million signatures were collected to petition Congress to pass the law, the largest petition in favor of a law in our nation’s history. Inauguration Day of the next President of the United States, is also a National Holiday. This is not an unusual reality as these two holidays happened previously on the same day. This year, however, could be time for us to ponder more closely...
Group provides helping hands
...rains that took hold during the early part of the day cleared so the group could finish its work. “What an awesome day it was after such a dire start,” Jo Ann, of Illinois, noted. “I’m glad we could make a difference. I was amazed at how many of the sisters knew we were coming and why. They were so appreciative. And the thing about the weeds is we can do it again next year. I enjoyed the day so...
Every day is a gift
...sound of children playing soccer on the parking lot, and, of course, the dowel rod. God is good all the time and all the time God is good. Indeed, every day is a gift and that gift is filled with many gifts that we receive as we awaken each day. May all our senses and our hearts be always attuned to God’s generosity and the wealth of treasures that are given to us each day and may this awareness continue...
Meaningful work
As a child, I dreaded Labor Day. It marked the end of summer — the end of daily swims, of neighborhood baseball games and tennis tournaments, the end of playing outdoors until dusk. Sister Shawn Marie McDermott teaches 5th grade students at St. Agnes School, Arlington, Mass. School opened on the day after Labor Day, and for a long time I thought the holiday was given its name because it marked the beginning of what I thought of as labor...