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With great gratitude for our sisters who further the mission of God’s Providence in Asia
...the location of our SP-sponsored ministry Miracle Home. Miracle Home was founded by Sister Delan Ma, SP, in the year 2000 in response to the needs of the aging society of Taiwan. Currently, Sister Rose Chiu, SP, serves as director of Miracle Home. Sister Anna Fan, who last summer professed her first vows at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, now also ministers at Miracle Home. Miracle Home offers a variety of needed services for the elderly which include home care, respite care, adult...
Oral history: Sister Joyce Brophy, inspiring confidence in others
...convent. But a priest who was her confessor and a director encouraged her to keep on dating if she wanted to date. And she did. “I was having too much fun to become a religious so soon. I prayed and prayed to not become one yet. It wouldn’t let go of me.” Finding forever And so Sister Joyce entered the convent in 1947. What did she find the hardest part of community life? You couldn’t go home unless your parents...
Sisters Jan Craven and Paula Damiano: What does it mean to you to be a Catholic Sister Today?
Note: Here is the third blog in our series celebrating Catholic Sisters Week, which concludes on March 14, 2020. During the week, many sisters will share here on our blog what being a sister means to them. Sister Paula Damiano and Sister Jan Craven have written the third of such blog posts below. Sister Paula Damiano (with microphone) and Sister Jan Craven during the presentation of a workshop. Sister Paula Damiano, co-director, Providence Spirituality & Conference Center Sister Paula Damiano...
A remarkable woman
...Spirituality certainly flows from these relationships, but it is much more fundamental than any of them. Spirituality defines who one is at the deepest level of being. By looking at Mother Theodore in many circumstances of her life, we intuit the fundamental spirituality that gave her the ability to lead her poor and small Congregation into an expanded and fruitful future. That spirituality was based on a deep and personal relationship with Jesus; on a pragmatic acceptance of whatever came...
Spirituality of Acceptance: Accepting Diminishment, Illness and Loss
...with their own aging and health issues, how they cope with all the losses in their lives, the words above pretty well summed up their spirit: just do it, but do it with the grace of God! What is the connection between one’s own spirituality and one’s ability to accept the inevitability of poor health and diminishment? When talking about this article exploring how people’s spirituality assists them in accepting diminishment, illness and loss in their lives, Sister Jeanne Knoerle,...
The charism of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...the growth of the Academy and novitiate, but she was most perceptive in noting that these visible signs were traceable to a deeper source. From a faith perspective, success isn’t attributable to human effort alone, but rather to God. God’s Spirit infuses human energy with exceptional possibility, and it is these spiritual gifts that we name as charisms. We can look to Jesus himself to understand how God bestows gifts. At the time of his baptism, Jesus was at prayer...
A Providence Advent Calendar
Advent is a good time to practice Providence Spirituality. How often have you paid attention to Advent? How often have you celebrated Advent with the Providence Community? How often have you practiced Providence Spirituality by attending to a Providence Advent Calendar? Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and her five founding companions observed Advent 175 years ago by lighting candles and praying in the log cabin chapel at Saint Mary-of-the Woods. Let us take the opportunity this Advent season to call one...
Five reasons to become a Providence Associate
...spirituality. As a member of the family of Providence, you will find strong spiritual mentors. You’ll spend your first year delving into Providence spirituality and exploring your own spirituality with the support of a Sister of Providence or Providence Associate companion. Then, you can choose to continue to join us for retreats, small sharing groups, book studies, annual meetings and more in the years to come. Sisters of Providence Spend quality time with the Sisters of Providence. There is something...
Sister Ann Sullivan
Current ministry: Director, White Violet Center for Eco Justice Years in the Congregation: 41 years Someday, I’d like to: return to Ireland Remember when you actually received something you sought and that queasy feeling of “what do I do now” came over you? Sister Ann Sullivan, director of White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, a ministry of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, has experienced that feeling more than once in significant doses. The first came when she entered the...
Sister Ruth Sampson (formerly Sister Constance Mary)
...in 10 states – Indiana, Illinois, California, Massachusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Maine, Florida as well as in the District of Columbia and in the nation of Taiwan. She was a classroom teacher, a director of religious education, a Montessori specialist, a tutor, a teacher of English to non-English speakers, but at all times a missionary. Sister Ruth Sampson works with children at St. Therese Opportunity Center in Taiwan in 2004. Sister Ruth worked among migrant farmers, and...
Newsnotes from HOPE summer 2023
...the one here. Sister Marilyn Baker offers spiritual help, only 5 cents, to Archbishop Thompson of Indianapolis. Sisters of Providence on the road Sisters of Providence have been sharing the mission of love, mercy and justice and the story of Saint Mother Theodore far and wide. Vocation Director Sister Joni Luna, SP, and a group of sisters set up at the SEEK conference for Catholic college students in January. They traveled to the LA Religious Education Congress in February. In...
A reflection for Reception into the Novitiate
...Marsha Speth. For example, I learned that Leslie has found us a supportive and welcoming community. She feels at peace and at home with us and for that I am grateful to the formation community, to her director Sister Marsha Speth, and the many sisters and associates both her and as she has traveled to various Sisters of Providence missions around the country. Those visits have helped her embrace what she calls our charisms of love, mercy and justice. In...