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Oral history: the adventures and challenges of Sister Dorothy Ellen Wolsiffer, SP
...friends. Peaceful time Sister Dorothy Ann Wolsiffer visits with a teen volunteer And now? “It’s a wonderful experience now to be living and not have worries. It is wonderful not to have anything to do, not to be in charge. It is a peaceful time now.” Sister Dorothy acknowledges that it is not easy to be 90 years old. Walking can be a struggle, a fall that fractures ribs can be a struggle. “I don’t let that get me down....
A Providence Advent Calendar
...you enter into this season with reflections and actions for each day of Advent! You might want to keep an Advent journal to capture your reflections. Week One: Discover Beauty in Darkness and Light. ♦ Set up an Advent wreath. Light one candle each day this week before you read the quote of the day and take action. ♦ Pray for World Peace, especially in Syria, the Middle East, and France, Saint Mother Theodore’s birth place. Sunday: “There will be...
A Reflection for the 2025 Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...and Mother Theodore’s birthday on Oct. 2 in the peace of a retreat day. That peace was disturbed by “the dreadful cry, ‘Fire! Fire!’ from the lips of a postulant.” An Architect of HOPE What followed could have shaken the resolve of the strongest of spirit, especially when it was highly suspected that this (and I quote) “sad event appears to be the result of malice.” Out of the rubble of this fire and the loss of their provisions, I...
Sisters of Providence celebrate 2023 Senior Jubilarians
...St. Leo School, Chicago (1955-57), Teacher, St. Malachy School, Brownsburg (1957-59), Teacher/Principal, Assumption School, Evansville (1959-63), Teacher/Principal, St. Joseph School, Hammond (1963-69), Teacher, St. Mel School, Chicago (1969-74), Social Concerns Director, 8th Day Center for Peace and Justice, Chicago (1974-76), Social Justice Minister, 8th Day Center for Peace and Justice, Chicago (1976-86), Teacher, Maternity BVM School, Chicago (1987-2007), Work on behalf of Disappeared of Guatemala, Chicago (1987-90), Guatemalan Solidarity Group: “FINDING,” Chicago (1990-97), Youth Services Coordinator, PFS, Maternity BVM School,...
Sisters of Providence react with prayer, advocacy to federal executions in Terre Haute
...also attended and spoke at the Death Penalty Action group’s federal execution press conferences, which took place on July 6 and 13. Sisters of Providence also joined peaceful demonstrations on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons at the corner of U.S. 41 and Springhill Road in Terre Haute, not far from where the executions were taking place. We stand for all life, not death. As a Congregation, we believe humanity has moved past the old adage of “an eye for an...
A Reflection for the 2025 Silver and Golden Jubilee
...expressed itself in a very special way through our vocation as Sisters of Providence during the past 50 and for Janice, 25 years. In the winters of our sorrow and struggle, in the summers of joy and peace, in every season, we have been held, nurtured, challenged, prayed for and loved by a community where we call each other sister and an extended community of associates, family, friends and ministry partners. I would like to believe that we are a...
Sister Michael Ellen Green
Sister Michael Ellen Green “Brothers and sisters, in freedom, serve one another in works of love. For the entire Law has been fulfilled in one commandment, namely: ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ Furthermore, if you are being led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. Since the Spirit is life, let us be directed...
Sister Nancy Nolan (formerly Sister Jean Paula)
...NEVER known her to be wildly enthusiastic about anything.” Yes, that peaceful, laid-back nature of the Nine on the Enneagram was evident in Nancy. She loved being a nine and quoted the theme song of the nine whenever possible, “Oh, I have so much to do. I think I’d better take a nap.” But under that peaceful nature burned a passion for the mission. Sister Rose Ann Eaton, another of the councilors during Nancy’s second term, recently sent Nancy an...
Congratulations to the 2016 gold and silver Jubilarians
...broke out in Atlanta. President Johnson sent a letter to Congress asking them to enact gun control legislation. The United States and Vietnam were at war with each other. Riots and protests against the war were rampant. Calls for peace and an end to the war dominated the U.S. news. My Huong, you were born in 1970. You began your journey of religious life in 1991, entering a Dominican congregation in Vietnam. As Providence would have it, in 1998, you...
Called to be Peacemakers
When I was home to see my brother and sister-in-law recently, Becky and I went to the farmer’s market on Saturday morning. Becky was happy to see her jeweler who was there. Steve was born in India and began making jewelry at age seven. His creations are exquisite. But Steve had another kind of precious gem to offer us that morning. The conversation went like this: “My children ask me, ‘Dad, why do you smile at everyone?’” His reply was...
August 17, 2025: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Luke 12:49-53 Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two...
Jesus Christ is risen! Alleluia!
...us. The joy of the disciples on their way to Emmaus who recognized him in bread broken and Scriptures fulfilled. May peace rise in us. The peace lavished on the disciples when receiving the Holy Spirit and being sent to spread forgiveness and life in Jesus’ name. May love rise in us. The love of the Good Shepherd who knows each of us by name, who calls us, who leads us in the ways of love and compassion. Amen. Alleluia!...