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Advent 2018: So many possibilities in the waiting
...deal with it. That’s the upside. The downside is that waiting can be such a mixed bag of eager anticipation, worry, patience, impatience, indifference, puzzlement, annoyance, hard work, surprises of all kinds. Still, we’re used to waiting. That’s why the days of Advent, the Church’s season of waiting, holds so many possibilities for us. During the liturgies of Advent, the Scriptures will recall events before the birth of Jesus. Once again, we’ll hear the familiar and oddly comforting stories of...
October 19, 2025: Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...correct. It trains us in knowing the how of living faithfully, so that we might be” competent, equipped for every good work. “Proclaim the word; be persistent, whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching.” In the Gospel, Jesus tells us a parable about faith and justice: a story of a corrupt judge and a simple woman who demanded justice. She had no resources, but she believed she was right and could overcome. She...
Meet our postulant Stephanie Rivas
...Everything I did up until that moment: work, unhealthy friendships, romantic relationships, was not satisfying anymore. Deep down a part of me knew I was not on the right path. In realizing this I finally had to give in to Jesus fully. I started praying really hard. I would go to daily mass and sometimes sit there and cringe at the readings like UGH!!! OK, Jesus, you’re speaking to me. Some of my favorite things … Favorite quote: “I’ve learned...
A Reflection for Reception into the Novitiate
...your strength … I say to you with assurance, Come.” (Request to Enter the Novitiate) Ann and Maité what do you ask? (Reply) Grateful for the love and support I have received as I’ve journeyed on my path of Providence, I ask to continue the journey into my fullest self with you, my Sisters and Associates, as my guides, companions and friends. Together, may we remain faithful to the unfolding path of Providence in our lives. (Blessing and Presentation of...
Sister Barbara Ann Zeller (formerly Sister Dorothy Jean)
...Michelle, a single mom of Tony, age 3, says that “the program helped me start a new chapter in my life by giving me knowledge to be a sober parent and to take care of myself and Tony. At Providence House, I made a 360 degree turn in my life…” Michelle is now living on her own and caring for Tony. When Patty moved into Guerin Woods, her neighbors invited her for coffee and conversation. Patty also says that Sister...
Sister Joanna Brown (formerly Sister Louis Marie)
...the story how she got fully dressed in the habit to answer the door for the firemen. One of them said, “See, I told you so … they sleep in those clothes.” Sister Joanna was called to still more places than most people (allegedly, because some hole needed to be plugged, and she was very adaptable). So she was called back to Corpus Christi in Evansville, then to Terre Haute – first to St. Patrick’s School, then to Margaret Mary’s...
Sister Jean Ann Daniel
...as Sister Pat in her family, was born on Jan. 18, 1931, in New Albany, Indiana. Her parents were Tom and Viola Daniel. Mr. Daniel was on the fire force for 41 years, 16 of them as the New Albany Fire Chief. Her mother, Viola, was already busy raising three other children: Harry, Sis and Tom Jr., when Pat came along. Sister Jean Ann grew up in Holy Trinity Parish, her home being just across the street from the church....
Sister Joan Slobig (formerly Sister Denis Mary)
...(Bill), Robert (Bob), and Frank (Butch), welcomed our older Sister, Mary Judith (Judy) five years before us. The B’s and the J’s as we affectionately called ourselves grew up on the south side of Chicago in a traditional Irish Catholic home. The exception to the “Irish through and through” was my paternal grandfather Slobig, who was a Dutchman, something my paternal grandmother Letitia, who was born in Ireland, never let us forget. Sister Mary Jo Piccione, Sister Joan Slobig, My...
Journey of the Spirit: companioning a Providence Associate Candidate
...I soon found my feet set on a path of Providence that would take me and the candidate I was companioning on a true journey of the Spirit. On Nov. 8, that journey brought my candidate, Jean Smith, along with 19 other associate candidates and their companions to the Church of the Immaculate Conception for a commitment ceremony in which each one promised to continue to grow spiritually and to be a presence of God’s providence to others through the...
Providence Associates recommitments 2014
Several Providence Associates from near and far have shared photos from recommitment gatherings in recent months. Check out some of the photos here! Bill Hughes, forefront, during his commitment renewal as a Providence Associate in October 2014. Providence Associates and friends pose with flat Saint Mother Theodore Guerin during their gathering for recommitments in southern California. From left clockwise: Rachel Ambrose, Emma Contreras, Becky Codekas, Pat Ruck, Joann Kennelly, April Bradley and Judy Sucharitakul, front. The prayer space decoration at...
A community based on mutual, abiding love
...blesses the new Providence Associates Thank you Candidate Associates for responding to the inspiration of the Spirit. Thank you Providence Associates for renewing your choice to walk the path of Providence. Thank you all for putting your gifts at the service of God’s mission of Providence in order that more love, more mercy, more justice will be released into our world. As the excerpt from Paul’s letter to the Corinthians suggests, the Spirit is calling out these gifts. And if...
Sister Richard Bussing
...elderly. But what has persisted through all of this has been her love for and attachment to God’s great gift of creation. To look for her presence was to follow a path of green plants from corridor to windowsill to cubby hole and statue and ultimately out of doors to patio or shrine path. Somewhere along the way she would be found trimming, weeding, watering or otherwise, tending God’s gifts and exemplifying that these are still the ‘very good’ of...