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Providence Associates living out their commitments
...the St. Ann Shell Chapel there. One way that Providence Associate Marilyn Neuman, center, lives out her commitment as a Providence Associate is by volunteering to help senior citizens file their taxes at the local library in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Providence Associate Maureen Baca of Albuquerque, New Mexico, (standing, shown here at a meeting of Providence Associates) strives to do her work as a consultant in a spirit of love, mercy and justice. One way that Providence Associate William Pouncy...
Our sisters in Asia speak: What it means to be a Sister of Providence
...to be God’s tool, to do God’s will.” Sister Norene Wu: “To be a Sister of Providence for me means to lean my total trust on God together with our Providence community to share our charism with others through our work of love, mercy, and justice. No matter what ministry, journeying with others through their joy and pain and experience of God’s presence is life giving for me.” Sister Donna Marie Fu, right, helps record an event in Taiwan on...
Understanding life on death row
...man, who was convicted without evidence of any kind. He was simply stopped and pulled over as he was driving down the street. That conviction, along with the daily struggle of prison life and especially life on death row, was only part of the injustice. It also kept him from attending his mother’s funeral and raising his daughter. It was not only Nathan, but a whole family who suffered the impact of this injustice. Think how you would feel if...
Reflecting on our Annual Meeting
...Chapter commitments, helping us to focus on what we call, “Our Emerging Future.” In addition to interculturality, we also explored Climate Change as part of our Chapter commitment to our chosen justice focus on the environment. The Climate Change Task Force, an arm of our Justice Coordinating Commission, introduced its Providence Climate Agreement, a pledge to reduce collective emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) by 2 million pounds by June 2019. It is an ambitious goal, but one we learned can...
A community based on mutual, abiding love
...I should probably send Father Rohr a copy of the Providence Associate mission statement. It captures well what he believes this emerging church should look like: Providence Associates, in relationship with the Sisters of Providence, further the charism of the Sisters of Providence by: co-creating a hope-filled world, building relationships, cultivating community, and living lives that challenge them to embody the face of Providence as they seek to be love, mercy, and justice in the world. The gathered Providence community...
Sister Margaret Kelly (formerly Sister Bernard Maureen)
...issues of justice from the newspaper, the television, or the neighborhood right into her classroom and help the children learn how to create a more just society there in Room 101 at Maternity BVM School. Frequently, I would see two little people standing in the hallway talking and talking. I soon learned that was Margaret’s way of teaching her students how to solve their differences. They had to go and talk to each other until they could agree on one...
What brings you here? What are you searching for?
...One candidate said she is motivated by social justice, diversity and equality and she sees all these values lived out by the sisters. Another said she works as a caregiver. She said she has been coming to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods for years. She will come out and just sit on the grounds to find peace and solace. She said that when a client she cares for passes on, a piece of her goes with them. So she comes here to the...
Mercy
...years of living the mission of the Sisters of Providence, the “penny would have dropped” a little sooner. Whom did I think was going to devote one’s self to works of mercy? I haven’t really thought through the difference among works of love, mercy and justice. I tend to hear them as if they are one word – works of lovemercyjustice. So thank you, Pope Francis, for a direct and simply stated “goal” for this year of mercy and beyond:...
Mother Theodore the leader
...honesty and fairness in her business dealings. A sister who lived with her at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods relates, “Mother was much noted for her uprightness and justice in business dealings. Even some years after Mother’s death, a farmer of this neighborhood related that on one occasion, early in the fall, Mother had bargained with him at a certain price for the winter supply of pork to be delivered at the opening of the winter season. In the meantime, the price of...
BEing Providence in the World
Editor’s note: Providence Associate Michelle Barrentine shares her experience of living out her Providence Associate commitment by serving others in her own daily life. Blog post author Providence Associate Michelle Barrentine with her Sister of Providence companion Sister Carolyn Kessler. Love, Mercy, Justice. These expressions of the Providence charism of the Sisters of Providence can be lived out in so many different ways. As many ways as there are Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates (PAs). Volunteering our service is...
Poetry: A tree in winter
In the wintertime of my soul barren branches stand stark clothed in heaviness of ice bestowed by winter night storm. But then comes morning lavishing warm, bright sun on my hard-stiff self revealing resplendent prisms glistening grace-fullness untold beauty hidden in the night. I bask long in this Light holding on so tenaciously, to this moment of Transfiguration. Reluctant, resistant am I to let go to allow myself to become liquid in this Light. So unaware in the releasing Life-giving...
Blessing a summer harvest prayer ritual
...delicious apple pies. This season marks the wealth of Earth. Let us connect ourselves to this wheel of life. Place symbols of the summer harvest—wheat, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, peaches, basil, mint, other herbs, bread and lemonade—in front of you or in the center of a circle. Reading: “The Garden is Rich with Diversity,” Chinook Psalter, from Earth Prayers, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, ©1991. The garden is rich with diversity With plants of a hundred families In...