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June 22, 2025: The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
...table seating at a banquet. At a banquet, a community is brought together to celebrate and to share. It is at the banquet, at their sitting in groups, that, for Luke, the true miracle happens. The miracle is the discovery of the presence of Jesus in the breaking of the bread. This presence of Jesus is the for the entire community. We see this as a connection to Eucharistic banquet and to the life of the community. It is the...
A new way to raise consciousness and funds to combat climate change
...in their own community or elsewhere. Signed on Recently the Providence Community has signed on to continue our efforts to counter the impacts of climate change by joining with Catholic Climate Action Projects. The goal of the project is twofold. First, by participating in CathCAP, the Providence Community will have a practical way of reminding itself about how its choices about transportation affect the climate. Second, by taxing itself for its use of carbon for transportation, the Providence Community will...
Sister Carole: a witness of hope
...your relationship and my relationship with God.’” That’s all it took, and now Sister Carole connects in person or by phone each week with each of the women. Being in community is important to Sister Carole. One place she has found community is at St. Monica Parish, Indianapolis. “I’m so grateful I have found this welcoming community,” continued Sister Carole, who serves as a prayer partner and prepares meals for dinners after a funeral. Sister Carole and her father have...
Resting on holy ground: new cremains burial options at the Woods
A computer rendering of the planned Providence Community Cemetery Chapel to be built at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in the near future. During our 2016 General Chapter, we Sisters of Providence committed ourselves to “growing in relationship with all who share the charism of Providence.” Little did we know in those July days nearly three years ago that we would be inviting “all who share the charism of Providence” to extend that relationship even after death. The seed was planted by the...
Reflections for Foundation Day 2019
...virtue with the knowledge that we impart. In the current days of fierce competition for students, it is more important than ever to distinguish ourselves by the values that we build with intentionality into our curriculum and all that we do! The new Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Academy boasted all of the studies that were expected and common in 1841. Needlepoint, French, art, and music were included along with subjects that were not common for young women to study in the day....
LCWR, Providence Community stand in solidarity with the people of the Middle East
...lines of division. We commit ourselves and the members of our religious communities to choose the peaceful path of Jesus and exercise all of our rights and duties as citizens to urge our leaders to act as responsible members of the world community. We join our prayer with religious people of all faiths who recognize that war is not the solution, and we commit ourselves to be those who believe that peace is possible. We call upon world leaders and...
Reflections for the local Golden Jubilee celebration
...the foundress of this community, you jubilarians leaned on Providence through all those seeming contradictions, putting on your heavy underwear when called for, as Theodore advises; taking advantages of the delays, those very contradictions, to find a new route and a way home. Through it all, God has been faithful and given you grace in Christ Jesus. This God has called you into communion with this community, with each of us in Christ Jesus. Sister Pat Linehan And through it...
Reflections on 50 years
...Saint Mary’s in Rochester, New Hampshire, and Lady Isle in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Dad also provided transportation. As a child, I truly enjoyed being my dad’s co-pilot. Our family also enjoyed visiting my aunt and her sister friends. I recall much laughter coming from the community room while the sisters were having recreation. In the winter, the sister would freeze the enclosed summer porch in the convent yard. While my parents would be visiting inside, I would be outside skating...
Struggles of a saint: Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...to lock Saint Mother Theodore in the room and excommunicate her from the Congregation. It came after a disagreement at Vincennes between the bishop and Mother Theodore over whether or not elections should be held and who would decide who entered the community. He wanted her to comply with his changes for the community, changes that she knew would hurt the Congregation. When Mother Theodore refused to agree with everything, he locked her in the room for punishment. He did...
May 18, 2025: Fifth Sunday of Easter
...life? I see Judas the betrayer. Jesus knows Judas as both betrayer and friend, but only friend matters to Jesus. “After Judas had left them” to betray Jesus, Jesus takes the opportunity to give us a new commandment. “As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.” A commandment – not a suggestion but a commandment. What the commandment comes down to is this, ‘As I have loved Judas the zealot, insurrectionist, thief, spy, hypocrite, you should...
Providence Community spring retreat 2023
The Providence Community of Sisters of Providence and Providence Associates focused on friendship with God and relished in friendship with one another at their spring retreat the weekend of March 10-12. Community members and friends came from near and far, including via Livestream, seeking to re-center and be nourished, to grow in community and in spirituality. And we reflected, enjoyed community time and grew in relationship with God and one another. Is God nudging you toward the Providence Community? Explore...
Spirit in community: Providence Associate spring retreat 2019
It was a beautiful weekend despite the rain for the 80-plus Providence Associates, Sisters of Providence and guests who attended the Providence Associate spring retreat March 8-10, 2019, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sister Dianne Bergant, C.S.A, led us in a deep and living conversation around the topic of the Community of Earth and how we understand our common home. Retreatants looked deeply into how a fuller understanding of the Bible can help humans shift our mindsets from dominating and polluting the...