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Looking at the life and ministry of Sister Miriam Patrice Donoghue
...love to see her featured on the blog,” Tom continued. Well Tom, your desire is our wish. Catherine Irene Donoghue was born on Oct. 3, 1904, in Malden, Mass., to Jeremiah Donoghue and Catherine Carroll Donoghue. She entered the Congregation on June 4, 1925, and was given the name Sister Miriam Patrice. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Sister Miriam Patrice taught for more than 50 years in schools in Indiana, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts and...
The gift of being an “alpaca parent” brings year-round joy
...prominently than the ones we were in!) Some of the alpaca photos from her collection are now displayed on my desk, where they make me smile every day.” Blog post author Cheryl White visits with her adopted alpaca Jean “I’ve been adopting Pere Michel every year since 2014. After Jean was born in 2020, I couldn’t resist adopting her every year as well, because my mother’s name was Jean. I arranged a visit for Mom to meet Pere Michel when...
The Season of Creation 2022: Meatless Mondays and More
Note: We are preparing to celebrate the Season of Creation (Sept. 1, World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation through Oct. 4, the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi). The Sisters of Providence Climate Change Task Force will share 10 blog posts, this being the third. We hope you enjoy the series. Food is about relationships – both giving and receiving! What does this mean for us? Today, we hear a lot about vegetarian meals. Have you tried...
The Art of Isolation
...is sacred; every movement a dance. Let your touch be only healing. Draw energy from the sun. Turn with purpose toward what is essential and cull with tenderness what is not. Do not lose yourself. Let the holy within you rise to greet silence as a friend and enter into prayer that moves and lives and has being in you for as long as it lasts. Gethsemane surrounds us. But Easter is coming. Originally published on Lori’s blog at https://praypower4today.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/the-art-of-isolation/...
Reflecting on National Day of Prayer
True confession: Until asked to write this blog, I knew almost nothing about our country’s National Day of Prayer. The day is celebrated annually on the first Thursday of May. Google filled in some blanks for me. Trite as it may be, I’m going to use the “did you know?” technique to share some of what I learned. I’ll also ask some questions the facts evoked in me. Did you know? In 1768, the city of Boston declared a day...
Being ‘Home’ for Christmas
Jesus was born at home – for home is as much a feeling as it is a place Thinking about writing this blog, I felt very uninspired, not a thought in my head. Providentially, I heard two of my colleagues talking about not being “ready for Christmas.” Wonder what being “ready for Christmas” means. Why not ask them? So I did. We had a conversation that spoke to my heart and I hope to theirs. Each of them recognized so...
Treasures from Archives: Sister St. Francis Xavier’s slippers
One day while gathering some information for a blog on the death of Sister St. Francis Xavier Le Fer, I ran across some intriguing information about an artifact belonging to her. I found the information in the capacious first volume of the Congregation’s history written by Sister Mary Borromeo Brown. The information concerned a pair of slippers that belonged to Sister St. Francis Xavier. On page 766, one reads: “Sister Saint Francis Xavier’s health, as we know, had been delicate...
Saint Mother Theodore: a humble servant of God
...and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College alums, including blog post author Marilyn Rausch at right, pose with flat Saint Mother Theodore. Seeing her own poor health as an obstacle, Sister St. Theodore did not volunteer for the new mission to America when the opportunity arose. But her unwavering humility and dependence on the Providence of God would not let her refuse the insistence of her superiors that she lead the band across the ocean and into the wilderness of Indiana. No advanced planning...
National World Kindness Day
...more. What began as an effort from the World Kindness Movement at a Tokyo conference 24 years ago is now a global movement reminding everyone of the power of kindness. (Source: InspiredKindness.com) I have only musings to offer. And the musings don’t hang together at all. They’re just wonderings that I wondered while thinking about writing this. This is a warning to a potential reader. Stop now if you’re looking for well thought out blog-essay. Not going to happen! Is...
Enlarging Your “I”
...torches or spears against my enemy, though I can do no more than Milton, (stand, wait), though my reaching out must be touchless, limbless, still, I stretch the seams of my soul. Misery lurks and like a sponge I sip it and, cell by cell, expand. No one hears, no one sees, yet empathy moves the mountain, breaks capital I’s into a rubble of “us.” Small though we be, we will hold off the tide. Originally published in Lori’s blog...
Reflecting on Palm Sunday 2019
...do those of us in the pews always get the mean parts? “Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!” Or “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself.” Or, best of all, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Like: I wish I’d never said yes to writing this blog. But, I did. So here’s my one slender thread of a thought. Does Palm Sunday mark the beginning of the last chapter in the life of Jesus? Or does Palm...
On healing touch and the wall at the border
Editor’s note: Sister Mary Montgomery, SP, presents the second installment in her blog series. She is finishing up a month-long stay living and working at the U.S./Mexico border as part of the Kino Border Initiative’s program “Catholic Sisters Walking with Migrants.” Sister Mary has been participating in the month-long program in Nogales Sonora, Mexico, funded by a grant from the Conrad Hilton Foundation. Healing Touch at the Border Sister Mary Montgomery, at right, performs healing touch during her stay at...