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Musings on National Simplicity Day
...“I went to the woods to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach me and not, when I came to die, discover I had not lived.” Great stuff from a simple man who led a complicated life as author, tax resister, abolitionist, development critic and surveyor. How to celebrate? I still didn’t know much about National Simplicity Day though. How is it celebrated? Ideas included...
Journals and Letters week 45: Sorrows and shadows
[Today we are discussing “Journals and Letters” pages 397–402. This is located in “Part VI: Later Letters (1846–1856)” starting with “To Sister Basilide, Madison.” Join us in reading a portion of Saint Mother Theodore’s writings every week.] If it weren’t for Sister Basilide, the daily flip calendar featuring quotations from Mother Theodore would be very slim. And we’d lose out on some of Mother Theodore’s observations delivered with wit and wisdom. In the two brief letters to her much loved and often...
Journals and Letters week 48: Direct and loving advice from Mother Theodore
...from being the person I desire to be. Name the enemy That led me to reading the letters several times trying to name the “enemy” of Sister Mary James and of Sister Maria. Maybe Sister Mary James’ worst enemy was scrupulosity. Because she desired perfection, she went to confession twice weekly. She worried she loved her Superior too much and judged too many distractions interfered with her prayer. Sister Mary James let her imagination run away with her. Mother Theodore...
Mother Theodore, Providence Associate Kate Childs Graham: writers encouraging goodness
...Vice President Kamala Harris, right, gives Providence Associate Kate Childs Graham, the director of speechwriting for the vice president, some feedback on a speech that Kate is working on. (photo by Lawrence Jackson, White House Photographer) Getting to know Mother Theodore As a child, Kate and her family made several trips to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Through these visits, Kate learned stories that brought Mother Theodore to life — “stories of ships and shells and sisterhood.” Not until she was a freshman...
Thoughts on National Daughters Day
One thing leads to another. How true it is. I willingly agreed to write a blog on National Daughters Day. (My mother never seems to have celebrated the day even though she had two daughters). Being blissfully ignorant of the history of the day, I turned to every researcher’s friend — Google. Facts and the occasional commentary People in many countries around the globe celebrate National Daughters Day. In the United States, September 25 is the official celebration day. In...
Musings on World Smile Day
Who created the iconic Smiley Face, known throughout the world? Harvey Ball, a commercial artist from Worcester, Massachusetts, introduced the graphic in 1963. The round, yellow face quickly became known around the world. By 1999, Mr. Ball decided that the image had been over commercialized and his simple purpose of creating the graphic had been lost. That simple purpose was to make people smile and to pass on smiles. The outcome of his concern was his suggestion that one day...
Journals and Letters final week: Celebrate Mother Theodore
...for God and others We, her faithful companions, are not at all surprised. Every page of her journals, every page of her letters reveals a woman who used all her energy, all her love and passion “to honor Divine Providence and to further God’s loving plans by devoting [herself] to works of love, mercy and justice in service among God’s people.” (The Constitutions of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana) Continue your journey with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. Visit...
Prayer: a Sisters of Providence ministry dear to the heart
Sister Kay Manley lights candles in the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and prays for the intentions of people who have requested the sisters’ prayers online via LightaCandle.SistersofProvidence.org What does it mean to ask for prayer for someone? What does it mean to ask for prayer for oneself? I asked some Sisters of Providence and some friends of the Sisters of Providence those questions. After all they are both pray-ers and requestors. The responses flowed in. They conveyed an...
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...
Sunday, February 13, 2022: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke 6:17, 20-26 Jesus came down with the Twelve and stood on a stretch of level ground with a great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon. And by raising his eyes toward his disciples he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours. Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be...
Sunday, February 27, 2022: Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke 6:39-45 Jesus told his disciples a parable, “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? No disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher. “Why do you notice the splinter in your neighbor’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own? How can you say to your neighbor, ‘Friend, let me remove that splinter in your eye,’ when...
Sunday, February 20, 2022: Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke 6:27-38 Jesus said to his disciples: “To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic. Give to everyone who asks of you, and from the one who takes what is...