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To God through music: it’s a FESTivity!
...“Hail, Holy Queen enthroned above…!” I don’t remember which came first, but I love lyrics and I love music. As a Providence Associate, I was thrilled to be asked to help plan activities for the Saint Mother Theodore Guerin FEST this year. While brainstorming on the way to the first planning meeting, I was listening to my Sisters of Providence music CD and it came to me … a phrase from my childhood –“To God through Music.” That’s it! It’s...
Volunteers find friendship, inspiration, joy
...Indiana, had volunteered at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods several times a year since 2007. She asked if Deanna would like to join them. The three women come for a week at a time. They’ve volunteered in a variety of ways, from cleaning statues to planting flowers, to volunteering at the former St. Ann’s Clinic or Woods Day Care. They visit and help the sisters in health care and sort clothes at Helping Hands thrift store. They’ve worked the phone switchboard, driven sisters...
Christmas Reflection 2015
From the movie, It’s A Wonderful LifeI originally intended to write about peace at Christmas against the pervasive violence so current at this time. Then I came upon a news story titled “Good Samaritan Rescues Mom at Airport.” This news story led me to the movie It’s A Wonderful Life featuring the angel Clarence Odbody. Those of us old enough to remember this film gained valuable life lessons by watching George Bailey struggling with doubt because of his lack of...
Get to know Sister Arrianne Whittaker
...Mother Earth One thing most people don’t know about me is: I took ballet lessons for nine years when I was younger. The first thing that comes to mind when I think of God is: a colorful sky at sunset!! Favorite music/song: anything by Carrie Newcomer or Peter Mayer Favorite dessert: ice cream Favorite season: winter Favorite vacation spot: northern Wisconsin My favorite thing about Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is: a campfire with friends down at St. Joseph’s Lake Favorite saint: Mother...
Sharing the charism of Providence
...persons of deep faith, committed to deepening their spiritual lives and to making the world a better place through the work done by their respective priories (geographical groups of members). The retreat took place at “Habitaculum Mariae,” a quiet retreat house in the small village of Maribo, Denmark. “Lessons” were presented on a variety of topics: “The Three Tabernacles of Faith from the Transfiguration,” “The History of the Knights Templar and Their Worship,” “Prayer and Silence in the Jewish Tradition,”...
Oscar Lopez Rivera: A Man of Hope
...be amused. And thirdly, one needs to be kind, one needs to have compassion toward others because there’s always someone worse off than you are.” Oscar’s smile and twinkling eyes just exuded the peace-filled, hope-filled, kindly person that he is. No barbed-wire fences or prison walls have stripped Oscar of his genuine, holy humanity. Indeed, I learned a lesson about hope in being with Oscar that day. If ever someone deserves to be free from prison walls, it’s Oscar Lopez...
A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...It was here that she was awarded a Medal of Honor. “Trust in God, and God will help you.” We also know that a focus for the mission in Soulaines was to care for the sick poor, for which she was not prepared. So she made the most of her time in Soulaines by taking lessons in medicine and pharmacy. Later, Sister Joseph Alphonse, who succeeded Mother Theodore as directress at Soulaines, testified: ‘I have heard it said that the...
Sister Marian Ruth Johnson
...from 1990 to 1993. Her colleagues and students remember her as an excellent teacher who combined humor with a firm hand. Only this October, a former student wrote to tell Sister Marian Ruth she was the best teacher ever, his inspiration, always ready to listen and offer faith-based life-lessons. He remembers the numerous times she would challenge him, saying “Eddie, you know you can do better than that. Let’s try it again and get that A+.” She is described by...
Sustainability and social change
...but she didn’t really enjoy it. Her favorite part came after the lesson, when she would care for the horses. Her love of caring for animals is part of what lead her to apply for the internship. “I love the alpacas. It’s a huge part of why I applied, because I wanted to learn more about them,” she said. Because her internship lasts through the spring, Isabelle will get to take part in shearing the alpacas. She is also excited...
A Reflection on World Day of Peace
The transition from Advent to Christmas to the days immediately following Christmas is always tough for me. I love the messages of so many of the Advent readings and the promises of Hope and Peace that they bear. The service of Lessons and Carols, followed by Christmas Mass the next day, continue the message that Emmanuel is, indeed, God with us – the Christ, the Hope and Peace of the world. What more could we ask for? And then, in...
Blessed and encouraged to act justly, love tenderly
...early 1940s. ls. 1:17 tells us: “Make justice your aim; redress the wronged.” Dad and his buddies were following this command. This was a powerful lesson for me concerning justice. As a member of the Sisters of Providence for 72 years, l have been blessed and encouraged to act justly, love tenderly. When the first Congregat¡on Peace and Justice Committee was formed, I became a member. We tackled a number of social justice issues. ln 1999, when I was asked to consider visiting...
God’s love takes the form of tender loving care
...she believes that, no matter how bad things get, God will still be there to offer some TLC. Toddlers are emboldened by knowing their parents are there to offer TLC when they fall or get hurt. So much the same for us. Indeed this clearly animated Saint Mother Theodore as she boldly undertook what her doctors called a “suicide mission” to the wilderness of Indiana. And so that is the lesson I have learned. I face hardships and heartbreak, and...