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Ask Sister Dina: how long does it take to become a sister?

...active service through ministry. Sister Corbin Hannah recently professed perpetual vows as a Sister of Providence After her temporary vow period, the sister may make a request to join her life forever to that of the Congregation through perpetual profession. Upon affirmation, the sister enters a sacred period of preparation before professing perpetual vows, which includes, among other things, a 30-day retreat. This period of preparation is to deepen the sister’s relationship with Christ in her continuing growth as a...

Healing for suicide loss survivors

...Fatima Retreat House in Indianapolis. There are three two-hour online Zoom webinars preceding the retreat. Sister Connie recommends attending them all: Sunday, June 13, 2021, 4-6 p.m. The Spiritual Journey after Suicide Loss presented by Christine Turo-Shields LCSW & Survivors Panel Sunday, July 11, 2021, 4-6 p.m. The Spiritual Journey after Suicide Loss presented by Father Jim Farrell Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021, 4-6 p.m. The Healing Journey after Suicide Loss presented by Sister Connie Kramer, SP, and Lisa Thibault (both...

Sister Anna Fan shares her story as a fully professed Sister of Providence

...religious, all of their responses were: “You do not fit!” They knew that I enjoyed living carefree and was generous with my money. They wondered if I had lost my mind. The Bishop in Taiwan blesses Sister Anna during her vows ceremony. Stepping forward in faith I entered the Congregation and went to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, for my initial formation for three years. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is a very peaceful and beautiful place. I hope you can create an opportunity to...

June 9, 2024: Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

...seating being arranged “in choir” for the Liturgy of the Hours, but I didn’t explain the tabernacle. As we left, she commented that there was something about that space that gave an overwhelming sense of calm and peace. A recent reflection in Living Faith referred to the mystics as having a sense of “hierognosis” or feeling the Eucharistic Presence of God without knowing what was there. I believe that’s what she experienced. I knew what was there, and in my...

St. Anne Shell Chapel: holy ground

...surrounded by shaded, gently rolling stretches of green grass, the tiny chapel has an aura of serenity and majesty. Visitors sense at once that they are on holy ground. St. Anne Shell Chapel at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods The history of this unique chapel helps to explain its appeal. It is witness to memory and sacred stories, to creativity and whimsey, to fidelity and devotion, and to the ways the past and the present intersect. Memory and story-telling An early drawing from...

December 10, 2023: Second Sunday of Advent

Gospel: Mark 1:1-8 The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way. A voice of one crying out in the desert: Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths. John the Baptist appeared in the desert proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. People of the whole Judean countryside and...

Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

...courageous man’s legacy with a federal holiday, a date on the calendar first observed in the United States on January 20, 1986, three years after President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing the federal holiday in King’s honor. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush proclaimed the holiday to be observed on the third Monday of January to be close to his birthday of January 15. And on January 17, 2000, the holiday was officially observed in all 50 states nationwide...

Easter 2011

As we enter the final week of Lent, the deep, deep purple of Lenten liturgical environments gives way first to the blazing red of Passion Sunday and Passion week, then briefly breaks into the startling white of Holy Thursday, then back to the blazing red of Good Friday and, finally, to the gentle pastels and pure white of Easter Sunday. This liturgical color-wheel provides a visual procession from the serious Lenten call to individual and communal conversion — to Holy...

How to become a saint – Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s Feast Day 2009

...Sounds like Saint Mother Theodore’s response to the sister who asked what she needed to do to die like a saint. We know Mother Theodore’s answer: it was very terse. If we wish to die as saints we must live like saints. Pretty direct and straightforward. We heard another response in what was read before the entrance procession: What must we do to become saints? Nothing extraordinary, only that which we do everyday — only do it for his love....