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Thanksgiving prayer
Note: This year has been difficult. We know that many of you may not be able to be with extended family during this pandemic. Through Thanksgiving, we’ll be sharing several new prayers for this Thanksgiving season. Please join us in prayer as we celebrate Thanksgiving. Gracious God, I know it’s Thanksgiving time; yet I’m finding it difficult to pray in thanksgiving for your many gifts to me. Loving God, please understand. I am thankful for family and friends and sad...
Thanksgiving love across the miles
Note: This year has been difficult. We know that many of you may not be able to be with extended family during this pandemic. Through Thanksgiving, we’ll be sharing several new prayers for this Thanksgiving season. Please join us in prayer as we celebrate Thanksgiving. Dear God of Love and Compassion, Thank you for life-giving bread, beauty in nature, air, sunshine, water, and all nature’s resources! Thank you for the abundant blessings bestowed on me through my family and friends!...
New Providence Associates share their journey, part 2
...praying, kind souls, I have grown in many ways. I learned much about Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. About all the love and strength she and the other sisters endured coming to America to start this beautiful, peaceful home that is graced with so much love and prayers and joy and peace. I was blessed to attend Catholic schools for 12 years. A gift from God I cherished from first grade at St. Patrick’s through Paul C. Schulte High School. Now,...
HOPE winter 2021 — Living the Gospel of Hope
...the prayers as she stepped back away from the execution table to take her place in the corner of the room. When I was in prison, you prayed with me For many years, Sisters of Providence and friends and Associates have helped lead prayer services with inmates at the Federal Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. Allowing for God’s presence: Sisters of Providence hospital chaplains “Being open to the Spirit in this ministry is a must, along with a deep prayer...
Bearing witness to an execution
...the chamber, could hear Will laughing. A prayer for mercy Will LeCroy had asked Sister Barbara to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet with him and she did. At his request she continued, out loud, to pray the prayers as she stepped back away from the execution table to take her place in the corner of the room. “For the sake of His sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world. Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal...
Journals and Letters week 16: Welcome support
...own way, enabling the mission and moving it forward by their talents and contributions. And as with Mother Theodore, we sisters can only “repay” our current benefactors for their faithfulness and generosity with our promise to use their contributions to bring about good in the world and with our undying gratitude and prayers. Your turn! What stood out for you in these pages? Did anything surprise you? Next week > page 146 Part IV, “Third Journal of Travel: to page 160...
Journals and Letters week 17: Mother Theodore’s own words
...water and the tops of the sails below.” Yet, no matter how frightening the weather or terrifying an incident, Mother Theodore could and did pray. Prayer “I need not tell you we did not sleep (death seemed too near), we prayed. … We then began prayers in common, offering to God the sacrifice of our lives with all the earnestness in our power. But ‘they who go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the great waters; these...
From us to you: Blessings to you for giving
Last year was difficult for many families and loved ones. Words cannot express how grateful we are, for those of you who faithfully supported us in whatever ways that you could. 1 Peter 1:22 encourages us to “… have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply from the heart,” and we have felt your love deeply this past year. Thank you for your support of the Sisters of Providence. Your financial support, volunteer hours and prayers ensure that...
Ashes from the pandemic fire: a reflection for Ash Wednesday 2021
...their rooms for weeks. And then there is the almsgiving or acts of generosity and service … Wow! We’ve had to be a lot more creative this year, yet I’ve seen so many beautiful acts … phone calls, cards, words of gratitude to those who serve us and prayers for the sick and suffering. This pandemic brought out so much kindness! Fragility of life Sister Marsha Speth, author of this reflection, carries in incense at a liturgy during pre-pandemic times....
When God plants a seed
...this blog, pray for me as I embark on this journey. And I will have you in my prayers, especially if you are also discerning a vocation. Remember that God loves you and wants you to be happy. God will not withhold plans from you. “For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare, not for evil, to give you a future full of hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 The Sisters of Providence invite all...
Newsnotes
...you for your prayers at that time and are now happy to report that we are virus free. During the outbreak, many of the sisters who tested positive were isolated in a special unit of Providence Health Care (PHC) at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Our COVID-19 task force continued to cooperate with officials at the Indiana State Department of Health and Vigo County Health Department while following protocols from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Since the outbreak, nearly all sisters and...
June 6, 2021: Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
...On this feast celebrating the Body and Blood truth of God’s love for us, let us prepare ourselves to hear these words again by being fully mindful of each part of our liturgy. Pay close attention to our many symbols, our words, responses, physical actions, readings, hymns and prayers. And at our reception of the Eucharist, let us ask for what it is we need to be the gift of Christ’s presence to others. Then, do this at every Eucharistic...