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Sister Pauline Brockelsby
...burdens on our backs. … We went through fire and through water; Yet you have brought us out to a spacious place. … I will pay you my vows, those that my mouth promised … Come and heart, all you who fear God And I will tell what the Holy One has done for me. Truly God has listened and has given heed To the words of my prayer. (131) O God, my heart is not lifted up, My eyes...
Living a fruitful vowed life
...gospel values to be made an integral part of our lives. Someone has said the vow of poverty might better be named the vow for justice-making because at its heart is the value of helping others who are deprived of receiving their fair share of God’s bounty. The Constitutions of the Sisters of Providence continue to call us to witness to the gospel value of sharing with others, contributing what we earn to a common fund and receiving from that...
New Providence Associates!
...Providence Associates of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. (Front from left) Director of Providence Associates Sister Diane Mason, Zenaida Contreras, Sabrina Falls, Barbara Linton, Holly Herber, Adrienne Curtis-Davis, Kristina Allen, Providence Associate Assistant Director Debbie Dillow, (second row) Jacqueline Fischer, Rita Edwards, Patricia Waltman, Mary Wagner, Regina Hartman, Tina Bowen, (third row) Arthur Snyder, Beth Speer, Betty Sloan, Mary Jo Ricketson, Karen Blesch, Donna Stevenson, (back row) Cathy Allen, Kim Knoblock, Beth Weis, Pam Blake-Virostko, Jeanie Fentz, Cathleen...
Providence Associate first commitment 2015
...a banner in the entrance procession. Provildence Associate Barbara Linton and her companion Sister Kathleen Desautels embrace after the pinning. Sisters Denise Wilkinson and Dawn Tomaszewski receive written commitments from the new Providence Associates, escorted by their companions. In the foreground are Providence Associate Barbara Linton and her companion Sister Kathleen Desautels. Cathleen Flynn and Arthur Snyder sign their commitment cards as Providence Associates. New Providence Associate Arthur Snyder during the entrance procession. From left, new Providence Associate Jeanie Fentz...
Meaningful new names for the roads of Saint Mary’s
...from Grove Place to Good Shepherd Court ends at the small outdoor Good Shepherd Chapel, built in 2020. Grove Place continues past the orderly rows of white grave stones of the Sisters of Providence cemetery to the right and the Sacred Heart Grove to the left. The Grove is the site of a shrine to the Sacred Heart that dates back to 1895 and a labyrinth constructed in 2004. The towering trees still rustle with echoes of novitiate recreations, picnics...
“You are worth everything” Sister Barbara Sheehan and Urban CPE Consortium
...care. Sister Barbara Sheehan, in red sweater, meets people at Bonaventure House, one of her ministry sites as executive director of Urban Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Consortium in Chicago. There she helps train students to listen with head and heart and put faith into action. One organization that assists in spiritual care at Bonaventure House is the Urban Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Consortium, a ministry under the direction of Executive Director Sister Barbara Sheehan, SP (formerly Sister Marie Barbara). One-on-one...
My heart is so oppressed I…
My heart is so oppressed I no longer have the strength to pour out my soul.
Peruvian ministry artifacts on display in Heritage Museum
Responding to a pope’s request in the early 1960s to minister in Latin America, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods began a mission in Arequipa, Peru, when three sisters journeyed there to minister at the all-boys Colegio de San Jose. The original three sisters, and others who joined them later, stayed about 12 years until political and military upheaval prompted the sisters to leave after the 1975 school year. When they returned, they brought with them several artifacts that...
January 29, 2023: Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. “Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great...
A Reflection for the 2025 Senior Jubilee
...other people and my supporting them.” Sister Margaret Quinlan (center) with General Councilor Sister Carole Kimes (left) and General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski. Why did Ruth Johnson stay? “You don’t depart from something where you are growing and making a difference.” Ann Margaret echoed that sentiment, “I was needed, and I really did make a difference.” As did Mary Ann Stewart, “I could make a difference in the lives of the kids that I taught.” Similarly, Martha Rojo said, “I stay...
L’association Providence-Armor
...Advent and the season of Christmas approaching, as you prepare your home, please envision preparing the fertile soil of your heart for the Christ child. It takes digging deeper, turning the ground, picking out the weeds, sticks and stones … until the earth (your heart) is prepared to receive the promise and hope of new life. Now picture next spring, in France, at Saint Mother Theodore’s home … good people gathered there to plant seeds and flowers and trees. They...
Sunday, February 6, 2022: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...what? A most remarkable thing happens. The fishermen recognize something extraordinary has happened inside them. They recognize a heart to heart bond with Jesus. They recognize they trust Jesus. Often, very often, trust leads us to conviction. The men, based on their newly formed but deep trust in Jesus, drop everything, at a moment’s notice, to join Jesus in the works of healing, preaching, loving the friend and the stranger. They embrace the upside down notion that a child, a...