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Come and See Spring 2026 Retreat
...a community of Catholic women who collaborate with others to create a more just and hope-filled world through prayer, education, service and advocacy. Come make a difference in our world with us! Check-in will take place Friday, March 27, 2026, inside the East doors of Providence Hall. Dress for the weekend is casual but you may want to bring one nicer outfit for Mass on Sunday. In addition, make sure to bring a journal, notepad and a reusable water bottle....
Season of Creation 2022: Eco-Spirituality
...relationship with all of creation.” As members of one sacred Earth community, we, the Providence Community, have committed ourselves individually and communally to care for our resources and to make decisions regarding our current and future use as we seek to balance our individual and communal economic needs with the sustainability needs of Earth community. To do this, we will provide educational opportunities and share our own lived experiences, both individually and communally, in our efforts to live in right...
Sister Paula Modaff
...going through a whole new birth. It is a viable, beautiful way of life. The complete form of this ministerial lifestyle still has not emerged. But it’s alive and it’s going to continue to be a wonderful, beautiful way of living. The new life is coming, but it hasn’t completely come forth yet,” she said. “For women who will take the risk of being part of an entirely new venture, I can only say open those hands and get ready...
Racism’s infection within American healthcare
...color. Additionally, a means for care that has the specific intent of making people of color feel comfortable and safe should be made available. In fact, the benefit of a service like this has already been recognized: “culturally adapted mental health services are more effective for people of color compared with standard services.” (Webb Hooper). Until changes like these are effectively implemented within the United States’ historically prejudiced healthcare system, Americans of color will go unheard and untreated as their...
Foundation day through a young sister’s eyes
...starters, although Dina attended a public elementary school, it was called Providence Elementary. Their mascot seemed to Dina the perfect embodiment of Mother Theodore and her companions – the Pioneers. Then, in her college years at Virginia Tech, Dina encountered a dining hall called Owens Hall and a dorm called O’Shaughnessy. Sound familiar? (She would later live in the formation community in Owens Hall and attend community meetings in O’Shaughnessy Dining Room!) On top of all this, Dina had a...
O Antiphon – O wisdom from on high
...antiphons trace a chronological path through Israel’s history of people and events that led to the coming of the Messiah who brought salvation for the people. The illustrations add visuals for reflection and contemplative insights into the meaning of the antiphons and enhance their beauty. We invite you to reflect on an O Antiphon each day leading to Christmas. One word dominated this ancient prayer – Come!!! For what need or desire do you most eagerly pray, “Come, Lord Jesus?”...
Sister Jean Ann Daniel
...her mother, whose crippling arthritis had made her completely chair bound. This was no easy task, but as often as I went to visit Jean Ann, I never heard her complain. Her mother lived to be 102 years of age and I do believe that Jean Ann’s vigilance gave her mother a few extra years! Her ministry to the aged continued for several years after that. Taking communion to the homebound and the hospitalized became her new outreach. During this...
Nolan receives alum award for purpose, devotion and leadership from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College
Carol Nolan, SP “The people love her; they really do,” reads one of the nomination letters that contributed to Coachella, California, resident Sister Carol Nolan, a Sister of Providence (SP) of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, and 1954 graduate of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC), receiving one of the College’s most prestigious alumni awards, the Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Award. Sister Carol received the Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Award for possessing similar purpose, devotion, community vitality and leadership as exhibited by the College’s foundress....
The call to be resurrected: What if we made a shield of love?
...of Providence invite women who are interested in exploring whether or not they have a vocation to religious life to come and share in the life of the community. For the first time in two years. we were able to have an in-person Come and See. So, there we were, gathered in the soft morning light of the community room in one of our main Motherhouse buildings. Seven young women seekers, our own newer and younger members and a cast...
October 31, 2021: Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Mark 12:28b-34 One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than...