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Why I say “Yes” to life as a Sister of Providence
...yes? Some people judge me and look at me with pity. They ask, “Why are you choosing religious life and throwing your life away?” “Women’s communities are dying out.” “Why the Catholic Church?” they say. Well, let me share some insights. According to a recent study done by the National Religious Vocation Conference, there are more than 2,471 women and men religious in initial formation in the U.S. and about 1,000-plus more who have professed perpetual vows in the past 15...
Reflections from the 2018 Golden/Silver Jubilee Celebration
...a less tumultuous time in the world, but the choice to enter religious life in 1993 was no longer something many Catholic women were doing. Why would Pat Linehan, after a 25-year career as a Navy Nurse, seek religious life? Why would Kathleen Bernadette Smith, an accomplished musician and a pastoral presence in her own African American community, seek life in a predominately white Providence community? It would be easy for me to say that the answer to these questions...
The joy of a religious vocation
We invite you to get a glimpse of what it means to live as a Sister of Providence. This National Vocation Awareness Week, we thought what better way to make us all more aware of a religious vocation as a Sister of Providence than by showing it! In this video, sisters share in their own words what it means to live a vowed religious life. Then, throughout the week, follow our social media pages, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for short...
Faces of our future: a new generation of Sisters of Providence
The Sisters of Providence are blessed to have eight women in initial formation and temporary profession here in the United States. Statistically, the Sisters of Providence rank in the top 8% of religious communities across the US in the number of women entering religious life. We are thankful to have such fine women discerning life as a sister with this community of Providence. You may already be familiar with these women. However, let me share with you what they are...
Sister Nancy Reynolds and the ‘Power of Sisterhood’
...spent close to one year doing this,” Sister Nancy said. In 2009, during the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) meeting, Sister Nancy was asked to speak to a larger Congregation about the visitation. Sister Nancy said the meeting sparked a grassroots group of nine sisters representing four Congregations. That group formulated a survey to send to all LCWR member Congregations. The results of the survey were formed into “Power of Sisterhood: Women Religious Tell the Story of the Apostolic...
Reflections for Foundation Day 2020
...future of religious life…religious life perhaps not as we have always known it, or lived it, … …rather it is exactly what religious life needs to be now and into an emerging future of hope!!! I would like to close with a favorite and inspiring quote from Mother Theodore…she reminds us…. “Well, my daughters, ours is a preparation for the generation that will succeed us. You may not live to see it, but you will have sown the seed, and...
Habit forming dialogue
...our Inter-Community Novitiate, or ICN. Each week at ICN brings a different topic, a different speaker, and deepening conversations as we get to know one another. This week’s topic was on the culture of religious life – both the culture we each bring with us and the culture of the community we are joining. Considering that about half of the novices grew up outside the U.S., you can imagine we’d have lots to talk about! Blog post author Sister Tracey...
Finding my vocation in a long line of religious
Editor’s note: In this final blog for National Vocation Awareness week, Sister Kathleen Dede shares the story of her vocation. Her family may be one of the most unique we know in terms of vocations to religious life. Every one of her parents’ children — five daughters and three sons — chose a religious vocation to become either a sister or a priest! First grade is the first time I remember thinking about joining the convent. I was sitting in...
Congratulations to the 2016 gold and silver Jubilarians
...Sister Denise Wilkinson at the Jubilee anniversary celebration on June 25, 2016, of the four Sisters of Providence pictured with general officers above. See the photo album of the day here. Happy Golden Jubilee, Sisters Cathy, Linda and Mary Jo! Juk mun nyan kan, My o – u. Three of you began your journey of religious life in the United States in 1966. That year, Lyndon Johnson was president. Russia, France, Britain and Canada all conducted nuclear tests. Race riots...
Vatican visitation finds love
...background. Historical Review: (This did start in 2008 after all.) In December 2008, the Vatican Congregation of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life announced an Apostolic Visitation of women’s apostolic congregations in the United States. The reason for this visitation was to “look at the quality of the life of religious women in the United States.” Many of you may remember that this rather vague purpose created some level of anxiety, confusion and anger among women religious...
Meet Emily: Sister of Providence postulant introduces herself
...Sister of Providence Mary Ann Stewart. I traveled to Rome with the Sisters of Providence for the canonization of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin as a high school student. I had some inklings of interest in religious life in high school. But I struggled during college with my beliefs about God and the Catholic Church. Religious life wasn’t on my radar. I attended Xavier University in Cincinnati and majored in sociology. There I delved into issues of injustice by immersing myself...
New Postulant enters Sisters of Providence
...for deeper friendships, since most of my friends from high school and college lived in different states. “I was looking for a way to connect in a deeper way with the world around. I wasn’t looking for religion or religious life in any way, but through interacting with Tracey, I began to feel the nudge to seek more information about religious life. I thought I’d find what I wanted to find in the Catholic Worker – and I did in...