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Young sisters giving voice to mercy
Team Trac(e)y! I had the pleasure of leading this retreat with a dear friend, Sister Tracy Kemme, SC. “Many were gathered together…and Jesus was preaching the word to them. Some people came, bringing to Jesus a person who was paralyzed, carried by four friends.” (Adapted from Mark 2:1-12, An Inclusive Language Lectionary) When the fifteen of us sat in a circle pondering the image of this Gospel story Friday night, I didn’t realize how perfectly it would parallel my experience...
Spring anthems of Alleluia: Easter 2015
During Easter Sunday liturgy, most of us probably won’t hear that day’s Entrance Antiphon proclaimed because we’ll be singing an entrance hymn. Too bad – because the entrance antiphon is a lovely dialogue between Jesus and an anonymous follower. Jesus: “I have risen, and I am with you still, alleluia!” Follower: “You have laid your hand upon me, alleluia! Too wonderful for me, this knowledge, alleluia, alleluia.” I love this short exchange between Jesus and a believer because it is...
Journey of the Spirit: companioning a Providence Associate Candidate
...meal, and nourished each other with our reflections on the topics in the unit. At one point, we navigated through a life changing period in which Jean had hip surgery and discovered a unique call for herself in how to be a presence of Providence for others. Jean recently told me that her journey enabled her to discern her mission to be an advocate for residents of the Robin Run Health Care Center “who have no family nearby or a...
Many SPs sign Declaration of Life
...not want the murderer put to death. “I signed it because I think life is precious and that the life of the person who killed someone is precious, too,” said Sister Joan Matthews, a music educator living at Holy Redeemer Convent in Maryland. “I know that there is always a chance for a person to change.” Of the three sisters living at Holy Redeemer Convent, Sister Joan said, “We talked together about it. There was really no question among us;...
Elections and papal visit in Sri Lanka
...about him: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2015/01/14/joseph-vaz-indian-mistaken-as-spy-and-sri-lankas-first-saint/. I knew when I agreed to go that it would be a grueling day, and indeed it was. But rather than dwell on the early morning rising, the standing in lines, the crowds, the long walk afterward to find transportation home, let me share all the good things of the day. Galle Face Green was more beautiful than I had anticipated. Women religious had a special area, under a huge cloth roof, which protected us from the...
Sister Nancy Reynolds and the ‘Power of Sisterhood’
...Wincek, CSJ; and Mary Ann Zollman, BVM. “The writing of Chapter 3 was done after looking up the details of all the letters, press releases, statements, decrees, etc., that came from either Cardinal Franc Rode (former Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life) or Mother Mary Clare Millea (who conducted the visitation),” Sister Nancy said. The results of the visitation were announced on Dec. 16, 2014. Many sisters nationwide viewed the results as...
Digitizing the letters and journals of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
Jazmyne Magee, a student from Indiana State University in Terre Haute, helps scan and preserve letters written by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. When Mother Mary Lecor sent six French Sisters of Providence to the wilderness of Indiana in 1840, she told Sister St. Theodore Guerin to keep careful records of all that happened. Mother Theodore complied enthusiastically with lengthy, lively, detailed journals and letters. Mother Mary wryly cautioned — “More piety, less romance.” Fortunately, Sister St. Theodore was incapable of...
Prayer for our Marriage
...us with your mercy. As we strive to overcome those things that have broken our relationship, guide us to rediscover the love that brought us together, and help us to renew that love in mutual forgiveness. We know that with your presence in our lives we are never really alone. When times of loneliness and worry do come, give us gentle reminders of that presence, that we may remember the many blessings with which you have graced our lives. Amen....
A reflection for Memorial Day 2020
...lab for type, crossmatch and labs, x-ray for total body films, then down to pre-op where uniforms were cut off, bodies bathed, blood given and vital signs monitored, awaiting surgery in one of three operating rooms. Pre-op and recovery on the Repose ship. Some came long beyond human repair. These were gently bathed and attentively monitored by a nurse, corpsman, doctor and clergy, if possible, taking turns between other patients. They were never alone, until the end. Coming aboard Repose...
Sister Richard Bussing
...Teresa, Los Angeles (Principal, 1959-65); St. Elizabeth, Van Nuys (1968-69); St. Anthony, Gardena (1969-74); St. Ambrose, Hollywood (1974-77) This somewhat abbreviated version of the Genesis account of the origins of our universe is presented this morning not in order to lay groundwork for a scientific versus Biblical debate over the cosmos. Nothing could be less pleasing to Sister Richard, said Sister Mary Roger Madden in her commentary for Sister Richard Bussing, who died Tuesday, September 5, 2017, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods,...
September 11, 2022: Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...been found.’” Reflection (This week, there are two versions for the Gospel. Luke 15:1-32 and Luke 15:1-10. This reflection focuses on the latter). We frequently find Jesus in the company of those judged, by religious leaders and others, to be irredeemable sinners. Indeed today, those marginalized as a result of transgressions, ethnicity, illness, gender, occupation or religion, have drawn near to listen to him. In his presence, they not only were welcomed, they are also received, something no one else...
Images of God: Providence Community spring retreat 2022
This past weekend, March 11-13, 2022, members of the Providence Community gathered in retreat to reflect on the theme “Images of God.” Thirty Providence Associates, candidate-associates and Sisters of Providence gathered in person at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. They were joined by another 47 who joined them virtually. Sisters of Providence Paula Damiano and Jan Craven, co-directors of Providence Spirituality & Conference Center at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, led the retreat. Participants reflected on their own images of God and benefited from hearing...