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Providence Community commits to develop Laudato Si’ Action Platform
...Smith. Staff member Jason Moon also assists the task force. In its work to create a Laudato Si’ Action Platform, the Providence Community will continue to build on work that has been done to date, including the Providence Climate Agreement and Manifesto and efforts to reduce the community’s carbon footprint as well as sustaining its 10-year commitment to pollinator habitats to protect and increase populations of bees. In addition to offering direct services to the poor and underserved often most...
Breaking boundaries as Providence people
...as a member. Talk about breaking boundaries! Deliver us from the violence of superiority and disdain. Grant us the desire, and the humility, to listen with special care to those whose experiences and attitudes are different from our own. Humility calls us to embrace the entire human community without exception. Everyone deserves to be loved and respected. We are all siblings one to the other. The Providence Community signed the declaration Beloved by God: A Catholic Commitment to Trans-Affirmation to...
Reflection for a Celebration of Commitment
...ministry partners; you, our family and friends. Let’s make the kind of commitment that says if I am in you and you are in me, there is no fear of the OTHER because there is NO OTHER. We are the body of Christ, with the potential to be the beloved community. In that community each one is precious. No one dominates another, or is deemed of greater value than another. If Christ lives in us, we are aware of one...
Providence Associate and former Sister of Providence Donna Watzke shares about her journey
...the meaning of living in right relationship with our Sisters and with the larger world community. Education and ministry Providence Associate Donna Watzke, right, volunteers at a community gathering. Pictured with her are Providence Associate Adrienne Curtis-Davis, left, and Sister Mary Mundy, center. I began ‘active’ ministry as a junior high teacher in Evansville, Ind. In time I was named principal of All Saints Catholic School in Indianapolis. Eventually I was appointed vicar of religious and director of pastoral planning...
Sister Beth Wright
...again. She said she had a good friend who was a sister in a community that she thought was a wonderful community. So, I did go through RCIA and I was confirmed in April 2000. In November 2000, I went to my first Discernment Weekend (at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods). I had never been to Terre Haute. So I decided if I made it there, it was meant to be and if not, it wasn’t. I did make it, with next to...
White Violet Center: Meet the new 2020 fall intern cohort
...program would allow me to accomplish. Additionally, I am greatly interested in returning to a faith-based community, being a practicing Catholic myself, and having involved myself with Holy Cross’s church community as a liturgical musician and cantor.” Margaret Robb, Summit, NJ Margaret Robb Margaret has completed her sophomore year at Mount Holyoke College in MA, majoring in Neuroscience – both Behavior and Cognitive. Last summer she participated in the intensive Chinese program at Beijing Culture and Language University, China. “Ever...
Reflections for Profession of Vows
...that those made homeless lose something just as critical as shelter, food and hygiene opportunities. They lose community. She said and I quote: “The power of community to transform and heal someone is astounding. That’s what they need. Sure, they could use a job, but they need love and connectedness.” Thank you, Corbin, for offering love and connectedness – like Mary Elise and so many others before you As the larger Providence Community, we are daughters and sons of Saint...
Sister Dina Bato
...lifestyle the Congregation offers? Community lifestyle is very important to me. It’s one of the main things that drew me to religious life. I really wanted to live in a community of people who wants to grow in its relationship with our loving God and out of that relationship, to help transform the world for the better. I know that’s a very broad statement. Much like a family, living in community isn’t easy. I find myself being challenged to look...
Casa San Juan Bosco in Florida now a full community
...home is equipped with Energy Star appliances. It is the largest “green community” for farm families in the state of Florida. A fund-raising effort is under way to gain enough money to add a kitchen onto the Community Center so that an after-school hot meal can be offered to approximately 150 children who are living in the community. Families also benefit from on-sight services such as day care, Head Start programs, health care, English as a Second Language training, immigration...
A Reflection for the Installation of New Leadership
...meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, one of the speakers told us: “Your ministry of leadership is to ‘Tend the Soul of the Community.’” And though the five of us were chosen for elected leadership, we know that all of us need to take seriously the call to tend the soul of the world community. Our vision, as believers in a Provident God, must be big enough, daring enough to embrace the needs of our world. The world...
A community of hope for homeless young adults
...important for me to show them that I respect them and I will support them, whoever they are. I realize they have a bunch of different barriers facing them, and I help them navigate those in their lives.” Sister Corbin says her model in this is Jesus. He reached out to people who were treated as outcasts in their society and created community with them. A loving community The community she is helping to create here is warm, loving, unique....
Yay for community! Providence Associate Annual Meeting 2022
...Woods between sessions. Associates gathered bless the Providence Circles, including circle members representing each circle. From left, Connie Schnafp, Jeannie Smith and Ezra Meadors Providence Associate Diann Neu promotes the newest book she has written. The community blesses the Providence Circles and the associates representing them. Providence Associate Donna Watzke visits Information posters about Providence Circles The Providence Associate community members attending engage in table sharing. Providence Associates bless each other and the community Providence Associate Marilyn Rausch offers a...