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Merging parishes and creating community
...vessels. Different colors of clay can symbolize the unique traditions and customs of the parishes that come together to create a new community. Beyond parish meetings dealing with the business of combining the parishes, opportunities to be together in creative and social gatherings will stimulate and foster meaningful relationships. The foundation for growth depends on our respect and appreciation of one another. We will come to relish the various coils that become the new vessel that holds our sacred community....
Miracle Place: a beacon for the neighborhood
...We will work on that as well as hosting fun community events where neighbors can gather to meet one another and enjoy relaxation.” The sisters are excited that opening the Community Center has stimulated landlords on their block to rehab several other properties as well. Now Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, then archbishop of Indianapolis, with Sisters Rita Ann and Barbara, blessed Miracle Place Community Center in May. “The house across the street, for example, has been renovated and a couple...
Connecting hope and assistance to a community in need
...Sister Dorothy. The library’s move also resulted in a larger space for community programs. Similar advocating resulted in the opening of an outpatient branch office of Hamilton Center (a not-for-profit mental health center) in West Terre Haute. Sister Dorothy helped pull the right people together for focus groups to determine the needs of the community. Bringing pharmacy services into West Terre Haute is next on Sister Dorothy’s to-do list. West Terre Haute did not have town-wide trash pick-up. The town...
The call of Providence
...what brought them to the Providence Community. Here is some of what they shared. One candidate’s friend, a younger Sister of Providence, had assured her that this is a place where it is safe to be vulnerable. She saw how her friend had grown and blossomed as a sister. She sees in the Providence Community a reason to hope. More than one said she was coming full circle, having entered the Sisters of Providence for a time in her youth...
Sister Christine Patrick
...providential designs of God to all creation. The sisters work to build community since its continuing call into being depends upon each one’s affirmative response. Community is formed by faith, hope and love lived not only in moments of light and peace but also in the pain and darkness of human existence. Christine, we celebrate you for all the times you called the community into being. We thank you for the times you lived community not “only in times of...
Sister Mary Montgomery
...presence of God. The very breath we breathe is a gift. God is presence, light and energy. I love the stories Jesus shared in parable form. Prayer is as important as breathing. Q. How important to you is the community lifestyle the Sisters of Providence have to offer? A. Community for me is very important. What a gift. I’ve had a variety of living experiences. I’m living in Owens Hall now. I’m around incredible women of talent and experience. On...
Sister Maureen Fallon
...a family as well as part of a community. Years ago it seemed as if when you came to the community you sort of left your family behind, now you don’t. You can bring the family stories in. And your families can visit your ministry sites and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and feel really welcomed. What advice would you give to women considering religious life today? Be open to the call. And investigate. It takes great courage to say yes to something...
Cherishing creation
...community. This community exists as part of an entire web of life. This web, we believe, is made possible through the creative ongoing activity of an abundant, loving, provident God. Science and community Science has helped us know the truth of this, especially cosmology and evolutionary science (see Sister Ilia Delio). These have established the great insight that all life on this planet forms one community. Based on that insight alone we might be led to greater care for all...
‘We’re all grateful for your CONNECTION’
...you and your companion talked about the challenge of living a whole and holy life. I loved the response from one associate elect: “I feel like a different person since I began my journey last fall — hopefully, a better version of myself who sees the work of Providence in every aspect of my life.” And from another, “I desire to lead a better life and be transformed.” Becoming that community The Providence Community gathered for the Rite of First...
Oral history: the adventures and challenges of Sister Dorothy Ellen Wolsiffer, SP
...a real love of God and some spiritual feelings. They have to know they are giving up ownership of many things, including money. It’s community funds.” Sister Dorothy is a firm believer that people come spiritually alive in their own time and awaken to their spirituality when they are ready. She sees that the new entrants to the Sisters of Providence are sometimes older than the 18-year-old who entered the community 72 years ago. And they want the life. They...
Anti-Racism: the Providence Community’s justice focus for 2021-2026
...many other justice issues; systemic and structural racism have been the driving force in the inequalities and inequities among various ethnic groups, especially people of color who are the global majority; racism is the foundation of the systemic inequalities and inequities in the entire human community (and is the “original sin” of the United States); the Providence Community admits its own complicity in operating out of its white privilege; Therefore: We, the Providence Community, choose racial equality and equity as...
A new start in the Providence Community
...love for all she met. Another, a retired teacher, is an active member of United Hebrew Congregation in Terre Haute. She met the sisters through the Wabash Valley Inter-faith Council. She thinks deepening her relationship with the Sisters of Providence can help her be a better seeker of God. Community support, roots Another candidate is studying to be a licensed addiction counselor and knows she will need community support in that work. She said she has found so much strength...