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Laudato Si’ Platform Commitment Statement
We, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, and our wider Providence Community, publicly commit to join the worldwide Catholic community in responding to Pope Francis’ appeal to participate in a seven-year journey toward sustainability and integral ecology by developing a Laudato Si’ Action Platform. This commitment marks our willingness: To take up the “urgent appeal” of Laudato Si’ to listen and respond to the lurings of Providence to attend to the cry of the Earth and the cry...
Reading with My Heart
...in a cramped, inhumane crawl space for seven years, waiting for a second opportunity to escape to freedom and to be reunited with her children. Harriet wrote this book most of all to share the suffering of her community. It helps me understand better the long-term devastating impact both within the black community itself and the ongoing struggle in this country to overcome the racism so rooted in our bones. Have you read a book that touched you so profoundly?...
Sister Laura Ann McLaughlin
...Church, Somerville, Massachusetts. It was there that she attended elementary school and then went on to graduate from St. Rose High School, Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1959. Betty entered the community on Sept. 18, 1961, and she received the name Sister Laura Ann. She made her first profession on Aug. 15, 1964, and her final profession on Aug. 15, 1969. Laura was educated in the Community, as so many of us were, as a teacher. She received her bachelor of arts...
Against All Odds: Focus on Sister Winifred Patrice O’Donovan, SP
...in 1920. It was suggested that one of the ways that we could prepare for this celebration was to have the Community read and reflect/share ideas from the book, “Against All Odds,” by Sister Ann Colette Wolf. Being one of the members on the book committee, I thought it would be interesting to learn a little more about the five sisters accompanying Sister Marie Gratia on this journey in 1920. During the upcoming months, our committee will be focusing on...
Volunteers Make the Difference
April is Volunteer Appreciation Month. For the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, volunteers make a big difference in the community. More than 200 volunteers help in almost every Sisters of Providence ministry from one-time events like the Earth Day Festival, Phonathon, Used Book Sales and Christmas Fun at the Woods, to ongoing efforts like helping at White Violet Farm, Administrative Office, Mission Advancement, Providence Teen Ministry, Providence Healthcare, or the I.T. Department. Rely on Volunteers Nonprofit organizations, like...
Call to Action: Make Your Voice Heard!
...and one Representative, Visit the local offices of your Congressional Senators and Representative, Prepare for, participate in, and follow-up Town Hall Meetings, Write a Letter to the Editor or Opinion Editorial, and Engage with candidates running for office in your local community. To assist members of our Providence Community to do these concrete actions, the Advocacy Team of the Climate Change Task Force will provide resources for you to make your voice heard as we prepare for the 2020 elections....
Advent 2019: All are welcome or How do we make room in the inn?
...that the Dominicans in St. Louis opened their home to Sisters Janice Smith and Jessica Vitente to form a new intercommunity novitiate there. It seems all do feel welcome, I think about Deb Tezlaff, mother of Providence Associate Heather Tezlaff Smith, standing at the site of the columbarium wall (shown above) in the new Providence Community Cemetery, tears flowing down her cheeks as the urn containing her daughter’s cremains was placed in one of the niches by her husband. She...
Foundation Day and our French connection
...mission were palpable. It was like a lightening-rod of awareness that this too was home. Ruillé was no longer a land of unknown exile! For me, the questions and hunger in the sisters and our conversations led us to moments of wonder as to how can we be more united. How can we give witness to the call of Providence together? How can we become One Community built upon the foundation of the Gospel and the leadership of Mother Marie Madeleine and...
A call to change
...regained with education and opportunity, job stability, family and community support. I know this is not true for all white, American women. Women the world over, including in our own backyard, suffer from religious and cultural norms that exclude them, or reduce them to less than fully human. As racial tensions ebb and flow in our own country, we realize that these are not isolated incidents with certain individuals, but they point to larger systemic ills in our communities and...
A call to discernment
...presence in so many of them.” Tracey admits she and the younger sisters have talked about the community and its current median age. But she said she believes the answer lies within the process of evolution. “On my tough days, I worry about what this will mean for our community,” she said. “I wonder how our ministries will be impacted … and how I live out my call. On days when I recognize how deep Providence runs here, in these...
In Solidarity: Vowed Catholic Religious Honor Trans Day of Visibility
...in daily life and dismantle the systems that reinforce this rhetoric and violence in society, particularly for Black, Indigenous, and other folks of color. We will remain oppressors until we – as vowed Catholic religious – acknowledge the existence of LGBTQ+ people in our own congregations. We seek to cultivate a faith community where all, especially our transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive siblings, experience a deep belonging. May we act to transform our hearts, our church, our politics, and our country...
Sister Marilú Covani
...located and she served as pastoral coordinator of Hispanic Ministry for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, San Gabriel Region, and later at the archdiocesan office of worship. During those years she obtained an master’s degree in religious studies. By the time Sister Marilú moved to work in the pastoral center in the Diocese of San Bernardino in 1998, she had obtained 18 credit hours toward a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She had planned with the community support to open...