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November 30, 2025: First Sunday of Advent
...In this season of Advent, we are preparing to remember and to celebrate Christ’s coming among us. This preparation requires a certain spiritual readiness from us and the four weeks of Advent can be a blessed time for us to be aware of every encounter as a moment of grace to experience God’s presence with us. Advent is also about preparing for Christ’s return in glory at the end of time, and in welcoming his arrival in our hearts each...
The ever-expanding community of Providence
...about the community of the Sisters of Providence, another movement in the life of the Congregation was taking place at this same time … this being the development of what we have come to know as Providence Spirituality. This would further expand our understanding of community. In 1980, religious congregations of women with the name and charism of Providence formed the Women of Providence in Collaboration. Part of the mission of that group, which now numbers 13 communities, is “to...
Providence Associates, Sisters of Providence: 10 years in relationship
...for 15 years, my heart and my spirit is still being fed by the spirituality of the sisters.” Millie is also grateful that men can be associates. Her husband Phil joined the journey and together they have benefited from the same spiritual direction, which has enriched their companionship. For Alice Shelton (PA ’07), “It felt like a natural way to formalize a lifelong relationship that began when I was a very young child. Family connections to the Woods abound and...
Sister Mary Jo Piccione honored by Diocese
...themselves by providing compassionate and dedicated spiritual care to the dying. She received the award at the celebration of the Diocese of San Bernardino’s White Mass Awards Reception on Oct. 13, 2019, with Bishop Gerald Barnes celebrating the Mass and presenting the awards to the nominated. “Bishop Gerald Barnes is our compassionate spiritual leader,” Sister Mary Jo said. “God has surrounded me in a very special way with a loving family, friends and Community of the Sisters of Providence.” As...
A visit to the Woods
...newly found spiritual advisor, Connie Schnapf, is a Providence Associate. The four years spent under Providence tutelage at St. Agnes proved beneficial, not only to my academic success in college and later life, but also to my spiritual and social wellbeing. To this day, I remain close friends with Theresa (Reidy) Stinson, Nancy (Pogue) Kitchin, Barb (Daeger) Tillman, and Joni (Schoettle) Grande, while occasionally seeing others from our class as well. Theresa became the unofficial “eighth” child in our family,...
Care of Earth: an ascetical practice for our times?
...as exercises leading people to spiritual growth and maturity. Although many of the former legislated practices were dropped from Catholic practice, the bishops reaffirmed the importance of practices of penance in the spiritual life. They recommended that each Catholic freely choose to engage in certain practices of penance which would best help him/her overcome, with God’s grace, all that stands in the way of one’s becoming the person God created one to be. Authentic asceticism does not depend on any...
Virtual spiritual pilgrimage of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
Take a spiritual and historic walk around some of the sacred spaces at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods from the comfort of your armchair. This video pilgrimage was created by Sister Connie Kramer, SP, and Providence Associate Marilyn Rausch, with help from Sisters of Providence staff member Pam Lynch, for the Providence Associate 10-year anniversary celebration in November. We hope you also enjoy reflecting on these sacred Woods. Learn more about Providence Associates here....
Preparing for perpetual vows: Sister Janice Smith finds wholeness
...as a sponsor for a person in the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA). “That was a real awakening because the way Sister Barbara presented that program was an adult look at your faith expression,” said Sister Janice, who was quickly learning that the faith of her childhood was no longer nurturing to her. That awakening gained even further rooting through a spiritual director and a year-long study of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. While she couldn’t verbalize...
Bold strokes
This article is reprinted from summer 2007 issue of HOPE. Paint more! Sister Jody O’Neil would love to follow the advice of her long-time spiritual adviser. “That’s his consistent message for me. He said, ‘I wish you didn’t have to worry so much about marketing. Your painting is a gift to the world.” Like many self-employed artists, Sister Jody creates artwork for show and sale. She searches for places to display her creations; she does the pricing, hauling and promoting....
Healing for suicide loss survivors
...Fatima Retreat House in Indianapolis. There are three two-hour online Zoom webinars preceding the retreat. Sister Connie recommends attending them all: Sunday, June 13, 2021, 4-6 p.m. The Spiritual Journey after Suicide Loss presented by Christine Turo-Shields LCSW & Survivors Panel Sunday, July 11, 2021, 4-6 p.m. The Spiritual Journey after Suicide Loss presented by Father Jim Farrell Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021, 4-6 p.m. The Healing Journey after Suicide Loss presented by Sister Connie Kramer, SP, and Lisa Thibault (both...
September 21, 2025: Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...you what is yours? No servant can serve two masters. (attachment to material wealth and spiritual goods) He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon.” Reflection Jesus tells us that how we handle mammon — material wealth, temporal goods, or the gifts of the Earth — shows others and God how we might handle true wealth or spiritual goods. If we waste, pollute,...
Four women profess perpetual vows as Sisters of Providence
...wasn’t something that I actually lacked, but my spiritual life became richer and deeper. And I realized that all these material things are not what you are aching for in life. My material needs for my ministry was not all I was being called to. I wanted to have that experience be enriched and satisfying and the only thing that fulfilled that was life within the Sisters of Providence and my call to grow spiritually and with God,” Sister Laura...