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Sister Agnes Eugene Cordak
...She had to practice right inside the convent front hall, at the foot of the stairs. She recalls, “Agnes used to tease me, and after a while, I started snubbing her. Pretty soon, she brought me down an apple as a peace offering. We always had a special relationship after that.” Carol was amazed in later years to learn that Agnes Eugene was barely 19. Sister Teresa Costello (left) with Sister Agnes Eugene Cordak. Interspersed within her years of teaching,...
Advent celebration banners 2020
...last judgement. This is a reflective time and we create prayerful spaces for calm and peace. Here at Saint Mary of-the-Woods we fashion our Church of the Immaculate Conception interior to engender this Advent ambience using hand made cosmic banners with origami crane mobiles suspended from the gallery and illuminated blue paper sculptures and tree limb accents in the sanctuary. A Peace Prayer focal point created for election day remains displayed near the ambo. This year due to Covid-19 safety...
New Providence Associates share their journey – part 1
...compassion and nurturing of humanity and of what it means to be connected by Providence to one another. The process itself brought me peace and more patience with my own journey. It deepened my compassion through prayer and thoughtful consideration of what choice means to me and how each action impacts a greater web of existence. It was not more rigorous thought, but certainly different thinking. And I found I was most content when I allowed myself to accept whatever...
Pentecost 2015
...joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, chastity. I found these on www.loyolapress.com. The listing was good and satisfied my curiosity. What captured my attention however was this sentence from the website entry: “…the fruits of the Holy Spirit … are the observable behaviors of people who have allowed the grace of the Holy Spirit to be effective in them.” A big light bulb went on in my head and heart! What has probably been crystal clear...
Sister Alexa Suelzer
...meant she was going to die and she said yes. Then, a little later she exclaimed, “it is funny; it’s so funny.” I asked her what was funny and she responded, “The whole dying process.” Obviously, true to form, her mind was working and analyzing things even as she was dying. When her death came approximately 12 hours later, it was very peaceful. She took maybe 15-20 “normal” breaths without a struggle and then simply stopped breathing any more. It...
Reflections for the local Golden Jubilee celebration
“Grace to you and peace from God our Creator and the Savior Jesus Christ.” Grace to you and peace, Sisters Jan, Pat and Jody from this local Providence Community who gathers in joy on this jubilee day to mark the special way that you have opened yourselves to the grace of God and used your gifts – spiritual and otherwise – to be faithful to the call to be about God’s mission of Providence. Sister Jan Craven Your lives do...
Sister Patricia McIntyre (formerly Sister Elaine)
...a few days later in calm and peace.” The day Patty died, Regina remembers, “There was a sunset that evening. It was a bright golden color with horizontal clouds.” What a beautiful parting gift of comfort and assurance you left those who love you, Mary Patricia McIntyre. Patty, that sunset was but prelude to the end of the last chapter in one life and the beginning of your new life; your entrance into the dazzling light of God’s loving presence....
Prayer for the visit of Pope Francis
written by Sister Jeremy Gallet, SP Loving and gracious God, Shepherd of all your faithful people, look with favor on your servant Francis whom you established as head and shepherd of your church. We pray, that by word and example, he may be a visible source and foundation of unity, love and peace. We entrust him to your hands, O God, That, as he makes his pilgrimage, he will travel in peace and safety, and will bring the good news...
Oral history: the adventures and challenges of Sister Dorothy Ellen Wolsiffer, SP
...friends. Peaceful time Sister Dorothy Ann Wolsiffer visits with a teen volunteer And now? “It’s a wonderful experience now to be living and not have worries. It is wonderful not to have anything to do, not to be in charge. It is a peaceful time now.” Sister Dorothy acknowledges that it is not easy to be 90 years old. Walking can be a struggle, a fall that fractures ribs can be a struggle. “I don’t let that get me down....
A Reflection for the 2025 Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...and Mother Theodore’s birthday on Oct. 2 in the peace of a retreat day. That peace was disturbed by “the dreadful cry, ‘Fire! Fire!’ from the lips of a postulant.” An Architect of HOPE What followed could have shaken the resolve of the strongest of spirit, especially when it was highly suspected that this (and I quote) “sad event appears to be the result of malice.” Out of the rubble of this fire and the loss of their provisions, I...
A Reflection for the 2025 Silver and Golden Jubilee
...years, I have been blessed to have learned how to most fully live the life to which I have been called through the example of my sisters who have been faithful to prayer, even in the most difficult circumstances of life; who have been willing to risk much, even imprisonment, to speak for justice for the disenfranchised; and who have been faithful to live community, as our Constitutions express, ‘not only in moments of light and peace but also in...
Sister Michael Ellen Green
Sister Michael Ellen Green “Brothers and sisters, in freedom, serve one another in works of love. For the entire Law has been fulfilled in one commandment, namely: ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ Furthermore, if you are being led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. Since the Spirit is life, let us be directed...