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Creating hope for the elderly and their family members in Taiwan
...and family members who care for the elderly. Many ways to serve Outdoor games for elders. Today, through collaboration with county and township governments, their services include homecare services, respite care, Meals on Wheels, daycare services, and community services for the elderly and those with disabilities. In 2017, the staff of social workers, nurses and caregivers provided 53,220 hours of homecare for approximately 275 elderly and/or disabled persons. Additionally, they provided respite care service to 87 people for over 27,670...
Sister Connie Kramer
...regarding the Indiana mission, “If Eucharist is present, I will go,” they struck a chord in Sister Connie’s heart and she said to herself, “I can do that.” All of her life, Sister Connie had watched her own mother begin her day with Eucharist followed by a devotional Way of the Cross. Each and every day from when she was a toddler until she was an adult, Sister Connie treasured going to church with her mother because she was always...
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...
Sisters Jan Craven and Paula Damiano: What does it mean to you to be a Catholic Sister Today?
...“Sign of hope.” … that’s what it means to be a Catholic sister in today’s world. There’s just so much division, injustice, suffering, struggle. I see religious women living with hope and helping others to regain hope. For me, that means striving for unity in whatever ways I can. I belong to a community action group, “Interfaith Council of the Wabash Valley.” This group, comprised of persons from many varying faith traditions, fosters interfaith respect and cooperation and advocates for...
Providence Associates’ Commitment and Renewal Liturgy reflection
...justice are not always my first reaction to a person or a situation. To know that my choice not only matters but makes an enduring difference…wow! And isn’t this the absolute most perfect gospel to proclaim today? Today we celebrate relationship! Today we pledge relationship! Today we acknowledge a relationship among us born in the heart of God. We celebrate a relationship based on the mutual recognition that each of us knows God most intimately and names Holy Mystery “Providence.”...
Finding the God moments amidst Covid-19
...would usually end up chatting until around nine and then she would leave. One day, I asked her where she was going. She told me that she was going to a prayer group where they would pray a decade of the Rosary every weekday. This inspired me to start praying the Rosary everyday myself. But I felt almost as if God was calling me to ask her if I could pray with them too! A couple of days later, she...
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...
Life in the Weihsien internment camp, 1943
...for the goods during the day. The next day, orders were delivered all sorts of ways — in buckets (as if carrying water from the well), or wrapped up in a bundle of clothing, or in other clandestine ways. … Regularly every night [Father Patrick] Scanlan bargained in rapid Chinese for hundreds of Chinese dollars’ worth of merchandise. Scanlan’s trusty accomplices were four Divine Word priests whose room was separated from the Trappists’ by only a narrow passageway. Stones thrown...
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...
Earth Day should be every day
April has snuck up on us and while we are so close to embracing a return to normalcy, we’re just not quite there yet. It was a hard decision but for the second year in a row the Sisters of Providence have decided to cancel our annual Earth Day Festival & Craft Fair that would have been scheduled for Saturday, April 24. But although we may have canceled the event, we have not canceled what it stands for each year:...
Sister Ann Margaret O’Hara
...LCWR. “Serving in this role at the center of such a vital Congregation is thrilling, energizing and exciting. It makes me proud, day after day, about how our sisters live their lives, how others love them,” she said. “I love going around the country and being where our sisters are. I love when we all get together. Our celebrations are exciting, inspiring and moving. I also appreciate that we have such a high sense of ownership of the Congregation. Everybody...
A reflection for the Providence Associate Commitment Ceremony
Note: The following is the reflection our General Superior, Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, SP, provided at the 2022 Providence Associate Commitment Ceremony, which took place on Saturday, Oct. 8, in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. It never fails. When talking with people about Providence Associates, especially persons new to the community, they ask, “Well, what exactly are Providence Associates?” I usually try to conjure up some of the beautiful words written in the spiritual integration units that our associates-elect and...