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The Easter Triduum: celebrating our salvation story
...of victory scattered about and incense. As each person needed to bend down to venerate the Cross, the verse from John came to mind, “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains but a grain of wheat … .” In loving service reflective of last night, servers would raise the cross for those who could not kneel. Finally, again, we receive His Presence in the Bread consecrated the night before, strength to endure what sufferings...
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...
Providence Community Cemetery blessed
Columbarium blessing and interment of the cremains of Providence Heather Tetzalff Smith in November In the summer issue of HOPE magazine, we Sisters of Providence laid out our plans for our newest outreach ministry: the creation of Providence Community Cemetery. Here we will receive for interment the cremains of persons other than members of the Congregation. The columbarium wall housing two columbaria was completed in early November. The columbaria were blessed on Nov. 9 by Father Dan Hopcus, with many...
March 21, 2021: Fifth Sunday of Lent
Gospel Reading: John 12:20-33 Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it...
The Woods continues to call: Woods Community Cemetery
...he was “overcome by the spirituality of the Church and Saint Mother Theodore Guerin.” Recently deceased Heather Santiago said, “Mother Theodore has been my beloved patroness since I was 14 years old. Two years ago I finally got to visit her resting place and it was just like coming home.” Deceased Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) alumna and Providence Associate Heather Tetzlaff Smith described herself as “an avid lover of Mother Theodore.” Gloria Urrea, who recently made her commitment as a...
Providence Food Pantry receives WVCF grant
Sister Maureen Fallon, SP, immediately sprang into action after noticing a need at the Providence Food Pantry. The Providence Food Pantry Director knew that adding heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) units would help the inside of the building stay cool for the volunteers and clients during normal business hours. And the pantry needed new units. Providence Food Pantry Director Sister Maureen Fallon, SP, displays the Wabash Valley Community Foundation grant recipient placard. So, she began working on applying for...
‘Everything is Connected’ — Our Climate
...stable climate that allowed humanity and nature to flourish for thousands of years. But since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, we have emitted more and more greenhouse gases into our atmosphere that warm the climate by trapping the suns’ heat. These gases are produced by burning coal, oil and gas to power industry and transport, and to supply our homes and buildings with heat and electricity. We also release greenhouse gases through intensive farming and...
Everything is connected – Our Air
...disease – especially among the poor At least 3 million people die every year from indoor air pollution – mainly from smoke from charcoal, wood and dung used for cooking. When people burn these fuels for cooking or to heat their homes, dangerous pollutants are released, such as small particles and carbon monoxide, which damage the health of all members of a household, especially women and children who are often at home the most. Respiratory illnesses, cancer and eye problems...
Oral history: Sister Barbara Ann Bluntzer
...only one teacher! Whatever grade you were in, you were absorbing what the teacher was teaching to the other students. Students could go to the blackboard to draw and play tic-tac-toe during other students’ lessons. Barbara Ann remembers that one of the mysteries of school was in a geography book that had little dots on a U.S. map, and each dot stood for a million bushels of wheat. Due to Texas’ climate and soil, at that time the word ‘wheat’...
A Reflection for the 2025 Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...good God. I left everybody at work and went for a moment before our Lord to ask him to protect this house, which was confided to him and where he deigned to live; *fortified and filled with confidence, I returned to the workers … Nearly all have some burns, but by a special Providence, no one was seriously injured. … Our wheat, our poor wheat, all beaten down, burned before our eyes.” Sister Noralee Keefe praying. She goes on to...
A lampworker’s meditation
...purpose. The glass must warm slowly at first, wafting in the flame, gradually recognizing that it can let go of its stiffness and give up its stubborn rigidity. Only then will it start to glow, soften, flow into a new shape. It is now malleable in the hands of the Creator. The molten glass is in transition. There is an intense fervor to its purpose. It feels the heat; it glows with an inner fire. It is free to become...
Our Letter to President Biden
...industries Invest in energy efficiency, clean energy, electrical systems and line infrastructure Invest in research to bolster and build critical clean energy supply chains in the U.S. Leverage the carbon-pollution free energy provided by existing sources like nuclear and hydropower Upgrade commercial buildings and train the workforce to manufacture, install, service and maintain high-efficiency LED lighting, electric appliances, and advanced heating and cooling systems that run cleaner and less costly and are manufactured in the U.S. Use renewables to produce...