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Sending out a ‘Thank You’ in anticipation of School Principals’ Day!
...coached faculty for whom technology wasn’t their calling; and found food for families who suffered food insecurity. Honestly, not a night has gone by that I haven’t prayed for school personnel who are trying to educate students and support parents against all odds! So today, all of us in the Providence Community say to principals everywhere: “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for the many, many hours you have given and decisions you have made, to do all that you...
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Mark 6: 7-13 Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick—no food, no sack, no money in their belts. They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic. He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave. Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you,...
Sister Shawn Marie McDermott
...Young Brendan from Ireland was one of the first to arrive. Not only did he get a bed and a good meal, he got encouragement and hints about navigating study in Boston. The Irish relatives would stop by to visit because he was family. Later came Sister Marie Do, our Vietnam Sister who had studied at the Woods. Now rice and Asian food replaced the baked potato. And Maria’s Vietnam friends gathered in the parlor. Shawn had time for everyone....
‘But how could we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land?’
...of women being raped and of families struggling to find food, and shelter from the cold. This Easter, as homes, schools, train stations, hospitals have been indiscriminately reduced to rubble. Alleluia? The word stuck in my throat. How can we NOT sing? Finally, I turned a corner in my thinking and began to ask myself … How can we NOT sing our Easter Alleluias?! Even in the midst of all this suffering. Indeed, we must sing because of all this...
February 5, 2023: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...to us today, to illustrate not only our value as his followers but our responsibility as well. Salt highlights and enhances the flavor of many foods. It is an essential element in our body and on this planet earth. Before the introduction of refrigeration, it was also essential to the preservation of food. Light is essential too. It makes our lives livable indoors when there is no source of natural light. It’s also essential to our health and to growing...
We are supported with so much love
...of COVID-19, Bert was selfless in her service to the sisters’ care. She worked on her days off and worked overtime to make sure the sisters’ needs were being met. She is known for being a champion for those who are unable to give voice in their vulnerable state, or who are lonely, confused or sad. Sister Laura Parker with Butch Mershon Kenneth (Butch) Mershon Butch, a former member of the board of directors for Providence Food Pantry, has been...
November 26, 2023: Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
...‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.’ Then the righteous will answer him and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty...
‘The borders came to us,’ and we must answer the call
...Ascension Parish that began what eventually became the formation of the Migrant Ministry by the Catholic parishes of Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago. (The Catholic parishes of Oak Park are Ascension and St. Edmund, St. Catherine of Siena-St. Lucy, and St. Giles parishes). The Migrant Ministry is providing food, clothing, medical services and weekly showers for our sisters and brothers in dire need. Migrant Ministry is also providing the Oak Park community with the opportunity to live the Gospel...
Oral history: Sister Barbara Ann Bluntzer
...The sisters had been invited there by Rev. George Scecina, originally from Linton, Indiana, whose two cousins were Sisters of Providence. Barbara Ann did visit often with the Sisters at St. John, especially when Sister Maureen Cecile Palmer made cookies on Saturdays. Providence was continuing its subtle background melody! Cotton and cantaloupes and other vegetables grew well on the Bluntzer land and surrounding farms. The food had to be hauled to the railroad tracks in Robstown to be distributed in...
Ways to combat boredom in July!
...on the White Violet Center Farm or Providence Food Pantry project, or beautifying the campus by weeding around various shrines and grottos. It Lasts a Lifetime! Regularly scheduled volunteers are always needed to visit with long-term care residents at Providence Health Care, work on animal or garden chores at the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, greet guests at our administrative office, help weekly at Providence Food Pantry or assist sisters with every day tasks like reading or getting to the...
August 4, 2024: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...be working for perishable food, but for life-giving food that lasts for all eternity; this the Chosen One can give you, for the Chosen One bears the seal of Abba God.” At this they said, “What must we do to perform the works of God?” Jesus replied, “This is the work of God: to believe in the one whom God has sent.” So they asked Jesus, “What sign are you going to give to show us that we should believe...
August 18, 2024: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...will not have life in you. Those who do eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Everyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in them. Just as the living Abba God sent me and I have life because of Abba God, so those who feed on me...