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Sister Mary Lois Hennel
...Dennis, in the fifth grade. If they crisscrossed at summer meetings, Mary Lois would always inquire about Dennis. At one of these exchanges, Kathleen shared some particular need her brother had and asked Mary Lois for her prayers. Mary Lois replied, “Oh, I pray for Dennis every day.” Another example: Sister Rebecca Keller has a grandniece, Adelyn, who is now 17. She was born with a hole in the roof of her mouth. Over the years, Mary Lois would ask...
General Chapter: Explained
...and deepen the Chapter commitments, through prayer, education, sharing and planning. These times also help us support one another as we live out our call to be Providence through works of love, mercy and justice. Please keep us in your prayers during this time. We count on it! Every year, between General Chapters, the Sisters of Providence gather as a community for the pre-chapter meeting with Providence Associates to discuss the goals that were identified during the last General Chapter....
Oral History: Sister Teresa Costello
...me as a postulant.” Teresa came to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on the train with four or five other young women who were entering as postulants. One of them was Carolyn Glynn, Teresa’s best friend for 70 years. Altogether 16 or 17 women entered when Teresa entered. Learning the ways The change, the lack of freedom, the schedule was a challenge at first. “I was often late. If you were late the punishment was to kneel up front until prayers were over....
2026 Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Companion Award Winners
...and Mother Guerin High School and later Holy Cross. As a campus minister, ensuring that living the values of love, mercy and justice was the mission of all faculty, staff and students at the school. And as a Providence Associate where he serves as a Providence Associate Board member, attends Providence Associate Circle events in Chicago and at the Woods, and is often the author of the prayers and reflections for the Associates’ weekly newsletter. Thank you for teaching and...
From The Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...good and generous and so very kind. Connecting with you and with your loving and generous heart is another evidence of His dear love and loving kindness. I hope you will whisper a prayer for me when you receive Communion and remember me to His dear heart. You and the sisters, and your intentions continue in my heart and prayers. From Indiana: I’d be grateful if you could send a relic to Tim and prayers to Mother Theodore that might...
Celebrate 2016 with the SPs!
View a Christmas video message from General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, SP, where she expresses the Congregation’s gratitude for the many blessings it has had in 2016. She also assures people of the Congregation’s prayers for peace and non-violence this holiday season. Christmas 2016 letter (also downloadable as a PDF) What a wonderful year this has been for our Providence family! As I write, I pause to count my blessings as a Sister of Providence. I especially include the many...
Prayer: a Sisters of Providence ministry dear to the heart
Sister Kay Manley lights candles in the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and prays for the intentions of people who have requested the sisters’ prayers online via LightaCandle.SistersofProvidence.org What does it mean to ask for prayer for someone? What does it mean to ask for prayer for oneself? I asked some Sisters of Providence and some friends of the Sisters of Providence those questions. After all they are both pray-ers and requestors. The responses flowed in. They conveyed an...
Sister Anna Fan shares her story as a fully professed Sister of Providence
...dear Sisters at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods! Your love and prayers give me strength and courage to be able to stand firm here to share my vocation. Thank you, my dear Sisters in Taiwan for your support and loving care. Unexpected hurdle I seldom got sick, not even getting a cold. On March 2, about two months ago, I went to Cardinal Tien Hospital for a physical check-up. I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, stage 4. I am undergoing chemo treatments. The...
Sister Agnes Clare Buckley
...faith, a real devotion to Mary and to Mother Theodore and to her prayer life, which was rich and profound,” said Sister Ann Casper in her commentary for Sister Agnes Clare Buckley, who died Saturday, September 23, 2017, in Massachusetts. She was 80 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 61 years. As we celebrate Agnes Clare’s life today, we offer our sympathy and prayers to her brother, James, called Joe by many family members, and to...
Sister Marie Kevin Tighe answers questions
...and saints after the time of Christ. 2. Why do we use intercessors in our prayers to God? Well, we don’t really need to have an intercessor, but sometimes it’s helpful. The Church has a doctrine called the Communion of Saints, and the word “communion” there doesn’t refer to the Eucharist. It refers to our being connected to each other with our common life of God who lives in each one of us. And because we all belong to one...
My walk with Our Lady of Providence
...and Mother Theodore’s Daughters of the Woods embraced me and my family! By May of 2007, I was carrying a key chain with medals of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and Our Lady of Providence. The prayers and reflections for Saint Mother Theodore and Our Lady of Providence from the Sisters of Providence website, spoke to my soul. Two years of inquiry went by and in November of 2009, I celebrated my initial commitment as a Providence Associate. The “other shrine”...
Prayers for people with cancer
Providence Associate Diann Neu, liturgist, psychotherapist and co-founder of WATER, the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, in Silver Spring, Maryland, shares the following prayers to aid those living with cancer. A Litany of Fears Spirit of Life, Transform my fears. Fear of dying, Fear of living with cancer, Fear of losing my hair, Fear of losing my energy, Fear of losing my mobility, Fear of losing my temper, Fear of losing my job, Fear of losing a part...