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A Note from Sister Barbara Battista: A Call to Action and a Time for Prayer
...development. Make April 6 a target date for next year and make sure it is on your calendar. Consider reaching out to your local media to write a story on this International Day of Sport and report on your local activities. Get out there… and start working on how to make a difference in your life and others, follow Dr. Mary Hums and Eli Wolf’s formula of Inform, Empower, and Transform. 1. Sport has the Power to Inform. Transform yourself...
Easter Transformation in the Christian Life
...think of the hours and energy you spend in feeding the hungry! From growing, buying and preparing food to serve meals for family or friends, to volunteering at soup kitchens; from supporting efforts such as Bread for the World, to lobbying for political action that provides food for those in need; the list goes on and on. The same patterns may be found in the other corporal works of mercy. Search them out in your life and, where possible, increase...
Sister Mary Pius Regnier: General Superior from 1966 to 1976
...to most sisters, but a point of bitter opposition and resentment to some sisters and to many students and their parents. Additional financial resources became available when the Congregation decided to buy into Social Security, available to religious congregations only in 1972. This was indeed an innovation. At the same time, the more pressing need for adaptation and renewal had to be addressed. One of the first concerns of Sister Mary Pius’ first term was to prepare for the Special...
Sister Marie Kevin Tighe
...noon to buy candy for their girl friends. When the afternoon session began there was much hub-bub and chattering. I thought, “Sister isn’t going to like this!” When she appeared on the scene, she assessed the situation and then said simply, “Isn’t love grand?” Somehow by osmosis, and not even realizing it at the time, the charism of the Sisters of Providence revealed itself to me. Sister had responded with love, mercy, and justice. There was warmth and humor in...
A Civil War widow joins the Sisters of Providence
...to this secondary source which cites the Community Diary of the Congregation for February 9, 1881, Sister Frances de Chantal died in the following manner: Sister Frances de Chantal Dufficy … had been permitted to pursue her charitable work of visiting the poor and sick of the city. She had her own horse and buggy which, however, was also at the service of the convent. She left St. John’s to go to the packing house to buy meat, but as...
Father Dan raises a village
...streets and homes are aglow. By golly, there’s even a full moon. “Who pays the light bill?” one sister joked at the open house. Father Dan said there is a little something new added to the village each year. This year’s additions included a flower shop and a Main Street pharmacy. He still receives some village items as gifts; others he buys. For many of us this year, our gift was seeing Father Dan’s Christmas village representing Peace on Earth....
The wisdom of Saint Mother Theodore: Letter to Sister Maria
...If you have time, I wish you would knit me, in your leisure moments, a woolen petticoat for winter. It should not be too wide. Do not make it too long either. You have nice yarn at Madison, and I know Sister Basilide will be willing to buy some for me. I know too that you will be pleased to work for your devoted old Mother. …” (“Journals and Letters,” pages 383-384). Today, Saint Mother Theodore would check out the...
Don’t take yourself too seriously
...today for the first time in at least three years. My doctor told me I don’t have enough stress in my life. It is a fundraiser. People are paying a lot of money to play with me. I think they should get a refund. … I’m buying a bushel of balls … I think when I come to a water hole, I should just throw a ball in. I’m told when I drive up to the club, they will take...
Joni has an “overwhelming feeling to serve”
...decision and to remember that the sisters were praying for her, also. She would tell Joni, “It’s a calling from God and you’ll know if it’s a place you’re supposed to be.” Joni sums it up, “I have an overwhelming feeling to serve and be part of something bigger than myself and bigger than money can buy. My formation is a process/relationship with the Sisters of Providence. During this time through the various forms of prayer, activities, experiences and ministry...
Vowed for love, mercy and justice
...countries. In India I bought fruit for lunch and received too much. I offered the fruit to a man I worked with, and he said he couldn’t accept it. I told him they had given me too much, and he finally agreed to share it. He was so grateful. I began buying too much just so I could give away the rest. I am always humbled by the people I meet. When I’m able to talk with women from another...
Human Rights Day and Saint Mother Theodore
...of slaves in New Orleans and wrote: “The most painful sight I saw in New Orleans was the selling of slaves. Every day in the streets of appointed places, Negroes and Negresses in holiday attire are exposed for this shameful traffic. … This spectacle oppressed my heart. Lo! I said to myself, these Americans, so proud of their liberty, thus make game of the liberty of others. Poor Negroes! I would have wished to buy them all that I might...
Sister Marie Kevin Tighe
...Providence was planted. She recounts the story in her book: It was Valentine’s Day and several of the boys left the playground during lunch hour (a forbidden act!) to go downtown to buy candy for their girlfriends. After recess, there was quite a hubbub in the classroom. When Sister Viola Marie appeared in the doorway, immediately quieting the class by her very presence, she quickly assess the situation and simply said, ‘Ain’t love grand!” As Marie Kevin recounted the story,...