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Sister Joni Luna: What does it mean to you to be a Catholic Sister today?
Note: Here is the second 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 Joni Luna has written the second of such blog posts below. The other day, I wrote the following prayer in my journal using a picture I had created in Sister Rosemary Schmalz’ Art and Spirituality Retreat: Sit with me ….. It is...
New Providence Associates share their journey – part 1
...so much more than I could have imagined in the beginning and Sister Mary Tomlinson was an excellent companion, helping me begin to unravel Providence Spirituality. I am so fortunate to be united with a powerful group of people who I know are working in their daily lives to be a part of a common thread. People whose ideas may differ, whose journey may be completely unlike mine, but whose destination is found in hope. In short, my daily life...
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin: bearing the light still today
...SP, director of shrines for Providence Spirituality and Conference Center, is moved by the people who visit Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s shrine at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sister Jan Craven with the book of intentions in the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Of the intentions written in the intention book there, she says, “It’s an outpouring of people’s faith and love of her power in their life. People go on and on and on about their families and...
Co-creating the future with God
...a group of women actively co-creating with God, responding to this call through the charism and spirituality in service to Jesus’ mission, is still a mystery to me. Two weeks after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in education, I left home without my parents’ consent to join religious life. It broke my father’s heart. And my family was sad. (A year later, they let me be and years later, they are proud and happy for me). In retrospect, the fearlessness...
Transformed by these Woods
...Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Converting a saint Certainly, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin recognized these woods as what Celtic spirituality would name “a thin place.” A place where the boundary between Heaven and Earth is particularly thin and easily crossed. A place where one can more readily sense the divine. Despite her early shock and consternation at finding herself and her companions deep in the wilderness of Indiana, Mother Theodore grew to love the land to which Providence had drawn her....
Remembering Pope Francis: Champion of the poor, the marginalized and the environment
...to receive those prayers. Certainly, his deep humility lent credibility to the challenges he made to us during his pontificate to go to the margins, to reach out to those most in need of God’s mercy and hope. For the Sisters of Providence, Pope Francis’ recognition of our common home, Earth, as one of the places most in need found resonance in our ministry of eco-spirituality and justice. His encyclical Letter, Laudato Si’, began a truly universal movement to change...
Reflection for Lent
...a new beginning and not a contest with myself about keeping a resolution? How to practice believing during Lent that these 40 days are about being loved, loving and not about being punished and unloved? How to choose a daily practice or mantra to say daily that would help me let go of an image of God who prefers punishing to loving? I find for myself that Lent brings out all the “old” images of God and spirituality that I...