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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...
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...
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
...me know that you are willing to make such a commitment for the good of all creation. Let’s remember that we have each other to lean on during those days when we just don’t feel like tending the garden. And, of course, we have the good example of our Saint Mother Theodore who told us to lean with all our weight on Providence, to behold the author of all things in all things. Henri Nouwen has written the following about...
The Helping Hands thrift store: making a difference a quarter at a time
...justice is in her volunteer work at The Helping Hands thrift store. She’s been volunteering and helping on the board since 2007. “I feel like I’m doing God’s work. I see miracles happen every day here,” she said. It takes a lot of dedicated work and the collaboration of many, many caring volunteers to make all that possible. Visit the shop any day of the week, aside from Sunday, and you will find volunteers busy at work. They sort. They...
Sister Carole Kimes
...accompanies a group of women from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parish in Carmel, Indiana, where she ministers, on a tour of the shrine of St. Mother Theodore Guerin at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. “Every single day becomes a transition when you are older. But what we have learned and what psychologists have learned is there really are two goals as we get older. One is to figure out our legacy. And two is to try to still remain in control when every...
Providence Cristo Rey High School: 10 years of changing lives in Indianapolis
...165 years before: to risk for the sake of Providence. The Cristo Rey model had been born in Chicago by the Jesuits. It offers students who could not otherwise afford a Catholic school education the opportunity for a quality education in a faith-based environment. Students study four days per week. On the fifth day they go to work in a variety of professional jobs. The model was unlike that of other Catholic schools. The model was so much in keeping...
Sister Adelaide donates handmade puppet collection to day care
...Adelaide has donated a collection of her “international friends” to Woods Day Care/Pre-School at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Teachers will learn how to handle the marionettes and share stories with the children who are part of the Day Care’s family. Sister Adelaide has used the marionettes for years in the Chicago area in her “Puppets for Peace” show. Each of the puppets donated to the Day Care represents a different nation or culture. “They love to dance,” she said. And so they...
The Practice of Homemaking and Community Shaping
...a place and a space in which we can be seen, recognized and cherished, without a community in which we are safe, in which we are challenged, in which we are appreciated, we perish. From its earliest days, homemaking and community shaping have been central practices for us. From the beginning, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods was known to the Sisters of Providence as home. And the practice of “coming home” began early in the history of the community. In 1851 Mother Theodore...
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...