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A Woodsie reflects: Shannon Sonderman
...farming family until their own house was built for them months later. In times of fear, she would often remain calm and assure fellow sisters that the God of Providence had helped them through the past and so he would be there in the future. The faith and compassion that she lived her life by is inspirational. When I am having a hard time in my daily life, I look to the life of Mama Teddy. She was able to...
Sisters preserving memories through memory books
...ministries. I suppose what I liked best is watching the expressions on the sisters’ faces as they ‘relive’ their past experiences, reflect on them and how they saw Providence in each and every encounter,” she said. Shared memories The following anecdotes, shared with permission, are narratives from recently completed Sketches of the Sisters of Providence: *Sister Laurine (formerly, “Dorothy”) Haley’s brother always called her “Dothie” because “… we don’t pronounce our R’s in Massachusetts!” *Sister Kathleen Dede recalls family vacations...
A place to belong: Providence Associate Tara Lane
What drew you into the Providence Associate relationship, and what continues to call you forward as an associate? The practice of prayer was what drew me to the Sisters of Providence. Some years back I was working in Terre Haute’s City Hall for redevelopment. Working for government will drive you to prayer. I knew Linda Edwards. She was a past director of Providence Center. I asked her how I could connect with the sisters for prayer requests. She brought me...
Tracing Providence: a Providence Associate reflects
Providence Associate Duane Drake, right, with his wife Jennifer Drake, left, also a Providence Associate and Sister Adele Beacham, center. Perhaps the mere fact that I am writing this is itself an act of Providence. The process of reflection has required me to look back on my past and inspect what has always seemed like unrelated choices and coincidental events. Almost twenty-five years ago, I chose to attend a small single-sex engineering college that I had never heard of before...
Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates Memorial 2024
Here is a video of Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, and Providence Associates who have passed away in the past year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZHw_MObyEo...
Reflecting on the amazing life of Sister Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN: Martyr of the Amazon
...life. Her work with the Pastoral Land Commission work, an organization of the Catholic Church that fights for the rights of rural workers and peasants, and defends land reforms in Brazil, was seen as a serious threat. Her death came less than a week after meeting with the country’s human rights officials about threats to local farmers from loggers and landowners. At Dorothy’s funeral, one settler remarked, “It’s all right, Sister Dorothy. We’re not burying you. We’re planting a seed.”...
Sister Anna Fan hopes that as a novice, her “spiritual life can grow deeper and wider”.
...what’s been different? I did not expect too much about my training. I just opened and prepared my mind and my heart to receive what the community offered me. In past generations the training was more serious, this community places more value and respect on personal development. 3. What are you looking forward to, as a Novice? As a Novice I hope that my spiritual life can grow deeper and wider. I hope to learn more about our foundress and...
Sharing their voice by ‘Giving Voice’
...a unique energy about having more than 70 women religious under the age of 50 there, nodding their heads and recognizing that yes, we share this experience,” Sister Tracey said. “I’m feeling encouraged. I could just feel an energy in the room. It gave me permission to voice some dreams and thoughts I hadn’t voiced before. “We’re breathing this new air.” “Over the past few years, just getting caught up in all the planning for the sisters in retirement, I...
A lampworker’s meditation
...I coat it in clay. Fragile, weak but with purpose, it doesn’t distort the past, but yields to it, and when the time comes to allow the bead to be free, it gently crumbles away. It is the experiences that prepare us to be more than what we are. The glass rod is selected, not for what it is but for what it will be. The color and clarity are full of potential, but it must change from its brittle,...
What brings you here? What are you searching for?
Providence Associate candidate Jeanne Rewa spends some time with her Sister of Providence companion Sister Rita Clare Gerardot at the Providence Associate orientation Oct. 10 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. We’re all searching for something, aren’t we? This past Saturday, 36 new Providence Associate candidates gathered for orientation at Saint Mary of-the-Woods. (Two couldn’t make it and four more will gather for an orientation in California soon, bringing this year’s total number of Providence Associate candidates to 42!) One of my favorite...
Allowing for God’s presence: Sisters of Providence hospital chaplains
...able to exhibit an open presence to the other.” Sister Betty Hopf, SP, at right, says the patients she ministers with as chaplain at Hux Cancer Center in Terre Haute teach her about love and patience. (Image courtesy of wtwo TV) Hux Cancer Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, is Sister Betty Hopf’s ministry site. On being a chaplain, Sister Betty said, “I don’t preach; I just DO … trying to do what Jesus would do, that is BE a pastoral...
Compassion for Earth
We cannot ignore all of the issues of the day, including climate change. The media focus, and thus, the attention of a large part of the world, has been on the violent events in France during the past week. Leaders of many countries, and people of varying nationalities, are coming together to pray, to lend support, and hopefully, to try and find ways to bring about a just and lasting peace. Meanwhile, other concerns of our world cannot be ignored....