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Our Providence Community 2024-25 Laudato Si Action Platform Plan
...ignore the fact that in recent years we have witnessed extreme weather phenomena, frequent periods of unusual heat, drought and other cries of protest on the part of the earth that are only a few palpable expressions of a silent disease that affects everyone. Admittedly, not every concrete catastrophe ought to be attributed to global climate change. Nonetheless, it is verifiable that specific climate changes provoked by humanity are notably heightening the probability of extreme phenomena that are increasingly frequent...
Loving God of the Seasons
Now we come to praise and thank you for winter. Amid the dark and cloudy days, help us to see your hidden gifts: the opportunity to slow down the invitation to go deeper the enjoyment in a cup of hot tea, coffee, or chocolate the wonder of a snowfall your presence in each drop of freezing rain the possibility of a blizzard to bring an unexpected day of rest the warmth of a fireplace or heat lamp the coziness of...
Thankful for a good, old-fashioned Indiana winter
...animals are as comfortable as you can make them. Whether it is adding wood to the wood stove that heats the barn at regular intervals so the older alpacas don’t get too cold or it’s getting those extra feed bags and straw to the chickens even though you have to walk extra slowly on the icy ground. It is being sure those water buckets get cleaned even if the scrub brush (and your hands) freeze immediately and it’s getting the...
Oral History: Sister Dorothy Gartland
...first floor with three bedrooms and heat from the furnace. The neighbors above them were a group of men: a policeman, a precinct captain, gang members and Mafia. The third floor of the three-flat held multi-generations of families. “The era into which we are born is the era for which we have responsibility, the era for which we are meant to be a blessing.” — Sister Joan Chittister, OSB The Streets in Chicago It was the Great Depression, and it...
Sisters Speak Out: On the Road with the Sisters of Providence
...in Washington, D.C. The heat index of 110 didn’t deter them. In addition to meeting with many other sisters and praying the Rosary, our team was able to secure a meeting with Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.). They prayed with and for the senator’s leadership and representation of Hoosiers. Senator Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) also met with “Sisters Speak Out” attendees and requested prayers for his role as a public servant. At a national level, we are seeing proposed legislation that...
Sister Joyce Brophy (formerly Sister Robert Ellen)
...food. Unfailingly, Joyce would say the soup was never hot enough. “I’m not speaking just for myself, but for those who can’t or won’t.” Unfailingly, the reply was “Sister, just let us know. We’ll heat up the soup for you and any other sister.” A Providence Teen Ministry volunteer accompanies Sister Joyce Brophy to several of the Christmas Fun activities. I was taking Joyce back to her room after a care plan meeting where she made the same comment. On...
Catholic and Gay
...alarm LGBTQ+ Catholics. (2025). Robert Mackey. Guardian. Pope Francis approves Catholic blessings for same-sex couples, but not marriage. (2023). Becky Sullivan. Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Doctrinal dicastery explains how, when gay couples can be blessed. Cindy Wooden. USCCB Father James Martin has taken heat for his LGBTQ acceptance. 2025. NPR. (Video). The experiences of LGBTQ Americans today. Rachel Minkin, Juliana Horowitz, Luona Lin, and Dana Braya. Pew Research Center. 2025. Catholic Church teaching, conscience and Sensus Fidelium. Sisters of...
‘We have to do something! Our faith calls us to protect creation’
Tornados, catastrophic flooding, hurricanes, wildfires, life-threatening heat. Nature continues to respond to human lifestyles that cause the climate to change. It is now a crisis. We were warned for decades, but governments chose political decisions over the dire need to reform energy sources. The repercussions are disastrously obvious. Now what do we do? — Sister Sue Paweski, SP Sister Sue was recently featured in Global Sisters Report, having penned the piece, “We have to do something! Our faith calls us...
2025 Reflection for Foundation Day
...John has told you how to pen up the hogs; they would not now find food enough in the fields and would get thin. If you have not sufficient flour, empty the sacks and send the remainder of the wheat to the mill, sooner rather than later, for you know how long they keep us waiting. I suppose the oxen will be able to travel in a few days. All who have not put on their heavy underwear must do...
Our Providence Community 2025-26 Laudato Si Action Platform Plan
...and sustainability. In Laudate Deum, Pope Francis pints to the current climate crisis: “Despite all attempts to deny, conceal, gloss over or relativize the issue, the signs of climate change are here and increasingly evident. No one can ignore the fact that in recent years we have witnessed extreme weather phenomena, frequent periods of unusual heat, drought and other cries of protest on the part of the earth that are only a few palpable expressions of a silent disease that...
Project Winter High Tunnel
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens – Ecclesiastes 3:1 High tunnels, also known as hoop houses, are a marvel of simplicity. They differ from a greenhouse in that they don’t have an artificial heat source. It’s just a frame, some plastic, and the sun that do the work of extending the growing season, allowing us to cultivate food year-round here in west central Indiana. Harvesting lettuce in February inside one...
December 7, 2025: Second Sunday of Advent
...Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in his hand. He will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” Reflection In Prague, imbedded in the city’s sidewalk are the series of “stumble stones” (Stolpersteine), which are brass-plated memorial cobblestones. Their purpose? To cause one to be interrupted in their journey. Each stumble stone bears the name of a person who was deported or killed by the...