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Sister Grace Stewart
...straight ahead. It was as if she was centering herself for the Eucharistic Liturgy that day, the highlight of her day. Prayer is that important for Sister Grace. “That’s what keeps me going! I begin the day with the sign of the cross. I tell myself that I am immersing myself in the trinity. Then, I offer my work, my prayer, joys and suffering in union with the holy sacrifices. When you talk about prayer, people ask me to pray...
Reflections for one of our Asian Sisters perpetual vows
...for your ministry and for your Sister of Providence companion. Today, you are the presence of Providence and bearers of love, mercy and justice to the people you seek to serve. Today, you take another bold step by making this a forever commitment as a professed member of the Sisters of Providence. You promise to spend the rest of your life wholly dedicated to a Provident God and to follow in the Mission of Jesus through the power of the...
The Season of Creation 2022
...Platform commitment to climate justice. Season of Creation History In 1989, Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitros I proclaimed Sept. 1 as the Orthodox Day of Prayer for Creation. Subsequently, the World Council of Churches (WCC) extended the celebration until Oct. 4, the Feast Day of Saint Francis of Assisi. In turn, in 2015, Pope Francis made the Season of Creation official for the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis expressed in 2015: “The annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation...
Reflecting on Valentine’s Day
If you Google “Valentine’s Day,” you will get the usual plethora of responses – from its origins in ancient Rome in the third century A.D., to its present day commercialization. Definitions abound. One entry I liked was simple and direct: “St. Valentine’s Day is an annual festival to celebrate romantic love, friendship and admiration.” That definition reminded me of one of the Super Bowl commercials (one of the few I really understood, I might add, at least prior to half-time)....
Counsel and guidance to middle schoolers
Providence Associate Lorrie Scheidler with a student at Otter Creek Middle School in Terre Haute, Indiana, where Lorrie works as a school counselor. Providence Associate Lorrie Scheidler has worked 16 years as a school counselor at Otter Creek Middle School in Terre Haute, Indiana. She wouldn’t describe her work as mercy. But as I listen to her stories of sixth–eighth grade students and situations she encounters each day, that is how I describe it. “I had a student just yesterday...
Faithfulness and God’s mission: a Foundation Day reflection
...written by Mother Theodore that are oft quoted and perhaps even more so in the lesser-known stories of her day-to-day life. She walked the grounds of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and cared so much for the fledgling school, its students and the teachers. I believe that her prayers are still with us and perhaps with me in a special way because I now watch over the school that she created. She was a woman ahead of her time when it came to...
New Log Cabin Chapel at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to be dedicated and blessed on Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s feast day, Oct. 3
When Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and her five companions arrived late in the day on Oct. 22, 1840, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, history was in the making. On Wednesday, Oct. 3, which is Saint Mother Theodore’s feast day, history will be brought to life once again on the already-historic motherhouse grounds. A new Log Cabin Chapel, a replica of the one visited by the sisters who arrived from France, will be dedicated and blessed by the Sisters of Providence at 1:30...
Cultivating Hope Weekend or Day Retreat
...concludes at 10:30 a.m., on Sunday, October 20. Attendance at Mass and Sunday lunch is optional. The day retreat on Saturday will start at 8:30 a.m. and end around 8 p.m. There are three packages, including: Weekend Package 1: Two nights lodging plus five meals and programming ($300), Weekend Package 2: Commuter for the whole weekend with five meals and programming ($180), and Day Package 3: Saturday only with two meals and programming ($150). The registration deadline is October 13....
Looking back on Good Friday
“Did my grade school self really know how to adore this covered cross?” As elementary school students at St. Monica School/Parish in Chicago, my classmates and I were expected to show up in our parish church on Good Friday morning to participate in silent adoration. This is the sixth Station of the Cross, where Veronica wipes the face of Jesus and Simon of Cyrene helping Jesus carry the cross. And it was silent. I don’t remember any prayers being said;...
November 2, 2025: The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls Day)
...day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day.” Reflection This week, the Roman Catholic Church “interrupts “Ordinary Time to embrace the significance of The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls). This remembrance is celebrated annually on November 2 and is based on the doctrine that the souls of the faithful, which at death are...
Reflecting on Crises with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...As the leader of this cherished community, Mother Theodore worried about her Daughters of the Forest. We are all worried now for each other. Each day I receive prayer intentions, requests for relics, and people asking that we light candles in Mother Theodore’s Shrine for loved ones suffering from the coronavirus. Each day our Sister Kay Manley lights the candles and Sister Denise Wilkinson responds to the people with prayer intentions to reassure them of our prayer and love. That...
A Note from Sister Barbara Battista: A Call to Action and a Time for Prayer
...sports season or our next favorite sports event. Get out there … on behalf of the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace on April 6, 2025. In August of 2013, the United Nations declared April 6 as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP). The adoption of this day signifies the increasing recognition by the United Nations of the positive influence that sport can have on the advancement of human rights, and social and economic...