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Let your surroundings inspire change
...5 is World Environment Day (WED). It’s quite possible you’ve never heard of it, but it was first celebrated in 1974! According to wed2016.com, WED is the United Nations’ most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment. Above all, WED serves as the ‘people’s day’ for doing something to take care of Earth or become an agent of change. That ‘something’ can be focused locally, nationally or globally; it can be a solo...
June 1, 2025: Ascension and 7th Sunday after Easter
Gospel for Ascension: Luke 24:46-53 Gospel for 7th Sunday after Easter: John 17:20-26 Ascension “This is what is written that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been...
Reflecting on a Palm Sunday tradition
The official name the Church gives to Palm Sunday is “Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion.” It’s for obvious reasons: We distribute palms in commemoration of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem and we hear the Passion story read in the Gospel. Growing up, it marked the beginning of several days of church-going … to services that seemed to last a very long time. I liked the procession with the palms, especially when, in California, they were huge fronds that had...
Prayer and Reflections for Awareness Against Human Trafficking
...One “Today, as in the past, slavery is rooted in a notion of the human person which allows him or her to be treated as an object. … Whether by coercion or deception, or by physical or psychological duress, human persons created in the image and likeness of God are deprived of their freedom, sold and reduced to being the property of others. They are treated as means to an end.” – Pope Francis, 2015 World Day of Peace Message...
Giving thanks to the ash trees on Arbor Day
National Arbor Day, always set for the last Friday in April, is meant to celebrate the importance of trees! As I walk around Saint Mary-of-the-Woods these days amid the limbs and trunks of more than 60 ash trees that have been cut down because of the advance of the Emerald Ash Borer, I feel a need to say thanks, to find a way to acknowledge their importance. Given that the life expectancy of an ash tree ranges from 120 years...
SP mission: alive with the times
...relieve the oppression of women and to enhance their development; being supportive of women in their struggle to exercise their God-given rights in the Church and in society Assisting persons to cope with the realities of life, such as sickness, aging, injustice, tyranny and other experiences of powerlessness. What does this look like today? Our sisters serve today’s recent immigrants by teaching English as a new language or providing bilingual counseling. We offer free tutoring in economically distressed areas and...
Musings on International Day of Friendship
July 30 was International Day of Friendship. The United Nations website says about the day: “The International Day of Friendship was proclaimed in 2011 by the UN General Assembly with the idea that friendships between peoples, countries, cultures and individuals can inspire peace efforts and build bridges between communities. Our world faces many challenges, crises and forces of division – such as poverty, violence, and human rights abuses – among many others – that undermine peace, security, development and social...
Lourdes and the Immaculate Conception
“O my mother, in your heart I placed all my anguish of my heart and it is there that I gain strength and courage.” — Saint Bernadette’s Personal Notebook Our Lady of Lourdes is perhaps the most prominent Feast Day of the month. In 1858, 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous received 18 visits from a “Lady” in Lourdes, France. The visitations started on Feb, 11th, the day we now celebrate. After several visits, Bernadette asked the “Lady” her name. The vision replied...
A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...And I can hear our saint say, “If ever this poor little Community becomes settled, it will be established on the cross; and that is what gives me confidence and makes me hope, sometimes even against hope.” The gift of a feast day like today is to remind this poor little community of Providence that we follow in the footsteps of one who hoped even against hope. We are daughters and sons of one who embraced the cross. Our community...
A Sister of Providence mom reflects on Mother’s Day
...wasn’t with us. I was in awe that God gave me this precious little gift that I was to care for and love no matter what was to come. In those early days, it’s the sleeping that is very hard. Most babies have their days and nights mixed up. I learned to nap in the day, as there’d be little sleep once night came. I’m sure I was doing something wrong, as Mark didn’t sleep through the night until he...
A community of hope for homeless young adults
...track down the needed phone number. Safe Place Services of Louisville, a day shelter for homeless young adults, lives up to its name. It’s not everywhere that homeless young people can let their guard down, kick off their shoes and feel at home. It’s not everywhere they can find private showers, clothing, a personal locked cubby to store belongings, a warm meal and a loving and accepting community of people. Making things happen At the hub of this drop-in day...
Getting hyped up for Scrabble!
Did you know that today, April 13, 2021, is National Scrabble Day? Did you know there was such a national day? If this is news to you, don’t worry, neither did I. But, after looking through lists of websites scouring through “National Day of this,” and “National Day of that,” I happened upon National Scrabble Day. Who plays? I have played Scrabble with family and friends throughout the years. And I started to wonder how many sisters take part in...