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St. Mary of Magdala: Apostle to the Apostles
...bearer of the news of Jesus’ resurrection to the other apostles. However, not until Pope Francis elevated her memorial status in the Liturgy to an official feast day on July 22 did the entire Roman Church acknowledge the canonical recognition of St. Mary of Magdala. The collect for her July 22 feast day reads: “The importance of this (Mary of Magdala’s announcement of the Resurrection) continues today in the Church, as is evident in the new evangelization, which seeks to...
November 29, 2020: First Sunday of Advent
...of plans for the future. But what about today? Our life in Christ should be one of constant preparation, planning for that day of celebration. Action Perhaps this is a good time to stop and thank God for this day and every day. Take time every day to sit in silence, and listen. Listen to what God is calling you to do to build up His kin(g)dom here on earth. Just spending this time with God will keep you “watchful.”...
Sunday, February 6, 2022: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke 5:1-11 While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, he asked him to put out a short distance from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. After he...
Sister Jeanette Marie Lucinio
...Chicago area for one year, and realized on the first day that it was a mistake. She longed to go to the Sisters of Providence-sponsored school but her mother made her stay at her school for a full year. Then, a friend who is now Sister Cathy Buster, another Sister of Providence, showed Sister Jeanette a brochure about the Aspirancy, a high school at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was allowed to come to the Congregation’s motherhouse grounds for three years of...
Celebrating National Haiku Poetry Day!
Five – seven – five! It’s really that simple! If you can county syllables, you can celebrate Haiku Poetry Day. And you really should. After all, April is National Poetry Month. So dive in to one of the simplest, yet most profound forms of verse. It’s just three lines – five syllables in the first, seven in the second, and five in the last. That’s 17 syllables in all – short and sweet! ‘Light Verse’ The work “haiku” is a...
Sister Marie Brendan Harvey
...been a Sister of Providence for 70 years. And then today, we, her friends and family, gather to recognize the 91st birthday of Sister Marie Brendan with this prayer service. Again and again these days Mother Church in her liturgy exhorts us to rejoice and to sing. What a coincidence some will say that Sister Marie Brendan was chosen to return to her eternal home at this time and on this day. But we of the family of Providence are...
Sister Marceline Mattingly
...people and never shirked being with others. She read the newspaper daily and Day-by-Day and the health care news page distributed to health care residents at the noon meal.” And speaking of meals, Marcie at 106, still had her favorite: Catfish dinner at Red Lobster; Bob Evans biscuits and gravy and The Pie Company’s chocolate pie. She also relished black cows, cappuccino … and cream of wheat, prepared for her daily by Dorothy as a midafternoon snack. Through her years...
Professing first vows: Sister Su-Hsin Huang: an advertisement changed her life
This article is reprinted from fall 2007 issue of HOPE. In 2002, the United States was just as foreign to Sister Su-Hsin Huang as the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Then, an ad caught her eye and changed her life forever. “One day, I read this message about a summer weekend at the Sisters of Providence,” Sister Su-Hsin recalled, while retrieving and unfolding that very same small ad she carries with her to this day. Then, she read the...
April 7, 2024: Second Sunday of Easter, Sunday of Divine Mercy
Gospel: John 20: 19-31 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so...
A community based on mutual, abiding love
...your words of commitment and recommitment today, make an investment in love, choose to push the boundaries of your ability to love. Love more people. Love them more fully. You have been chosen for this. We have been chosen for this. The world needs us for this. And I feel certain that what will emerge is a hope-filled world. And as our Saint Mother Theodore said: “This is the path traced by Providence and I [we] follow it.” Join the...
Poetry can tickle a funny bone!
...clothing at a Gioannini Symposium presentation. With this humorous SP poem from earlier days, we celebrate the generous response both of the Providence Associates and those who contributed to this cause at the January Taizé service. Tale of a Suit The skirt and the jacket were parted one day when Sister Marian Elizabeth gave them away. The skirt she put out with odds and ends, and the jacket she gave to one of her friends. Sister J. saw the skirt...
Sister Patty Fillenwarth
...every ministry Sister Patty has ever had as a Sister of Providence, she loves what she is doing. “I’m passionate about mission and ministry and service. It’s why I get up in the morning, and why I work hard all day,” she said. Sister Patty considers herself a normal person. She loves every-day things like the sports (especially the Cubs and the Colts), movies, jigsaw and crossword puzzles, gardening and nature. She is also a very happy person. “I have...