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HOPE Fall 2024
...you, our cherished friends. In this issue, we explore various forms of support and connection. You’ll discover how to find unity through listening and engaging in trusting dialogue and how to uncover common ground even amid conflict. We invite you to experience the peace offered by the sacred spaces at the Woods — spaces nurtured by our sisters, both present and past. As always, we provide practical guidance on deepening your spiritual life through prayer and spiritual direction. We also...
Easter Transformation in the Christian Life
...Jesus. They are known as the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, and you may have memorized them in school years long ago. Just in case they don’t spring readily to mind, here they are: Corporal Works of Mercy To feed the hungry To give drink to the thirsty To clothe the naked To shelter the homeless To visit the imprisoned To visit the sick To bury the dead Spiritual Works of Mercy To admonish the sinner To counsel the...
7 Reasons to give to the Sisters of Providence this Giving Tuesday
...all who need it. 5. Your donation supports our spirituality and eco-justice ministries You make the Sisters of Providence ministries at the Woods possible: Spirituality programs and retreats through Providence Spirituality and Conference Center. Our eco-justice ministry modeling care of creation in our White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. 6. You help us share Saint Mother Theodore Guerin with the world From the shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to sharing her story on her website and telling...
A Spiritual Frontier
...awakened. A place of deep prayer, questions, and vision. Birth and death at the same time. With only the clothes on their back. Shoes torn. No shoelaces. A new sunset, a new life, a new start, no matter what happens. A people of vision, beauty, and inspiration. The red-tail hawk soars over the hills, our Creator, watches. The Sonoran Desert is a spiritual land. These are spiritual people and prayerful people. These people are your people, my people, our people. ...
Sister Eileen Rose Bonner: A spiritual and emotional support to neighbors
...off her fingers, put herself gently into the hands of Providence, and spent a year preparing to be a hospital chaplain. Saying yes to new challenges and to the needs of people dealing with serious illness, Sister Eileen spent 20 years at Saints Mary and Elizabeth Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. “I loved every minute of it,” she says, adding, “Well, I loved some minutes more than others.” Spiritual and emotional ministry As a chaplain she realized she had to minister...
Reminders of the beauty of God
...Saint Mary-of-the-Woods still live out the legacy and carry on the spirit of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin shown here. The most obvious way is through the sisters’ ministry at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, which connects people in our harried society back to nature, back to our most basic and our spiritual roots. The spiritual connections Saint Mother Theodore found in working and walking these grounds also remind me of the contemplative connections still being made today by interns at...
Discovering the Woods: A visit from a fresh perspective
...eyes of others. That’s what happened to me recently when a friend, who has never before been to the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, met me for a tour of the home of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. I decided to begin our tour in Providence Spirituality & Conference Center. It’s a great place to get information about all there is to see and do while you’re here. You can even pick up a self-guided tour brochure at the Welcome...
Sister Dina Bato
...given a list of directors around the area. I said to myself, “I don’t know any of these people. Plus, people charge for this stuff?” In conversation with a parishioner not long after I was given the list, I was informed, “Sister Carolyn Bouchard is a sister, as well as a spiritual director. Why don’t you ask her?” I called her and asked if she’d take me on as a directee, and she agreed. Our spiritual direction relationship lasted four...
Get to know Providence Associate Candace Minster
Tell us about yourself: Where you are from, family, career, etc. Providence Associate Candace Minster with some of the flowers she grew in her ministry at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice I’m from a small town in northern Indiana and went to college at Indiana University in Bloomington where I double-majored in English and Ecology and Spirituality (which was part of the Individualized Major Program). One of my professors and advisors for the individualized major suggested that I check out the Sisters...
La frontera espiritual
...lugar de profunda oracion, de preguntas y visiones Al mismo tiempo nacimiento y muerte Con solo sus ropas puestas, zapatos rotos, sin agujetas. Un nuevo amanecer, una nueva vida, un nuevo comienzo pase lo que pase Una gente con vision, belleza e inspiracion . El halcon de cola roja se eleva sobre las colinas, nuestro Creador mira. El desierto de Sonora es una tierra espiritual, Esta es gente espiritual y ferviente. Esta gente, es tu gente, mi pueblo, nuestro pueblo....
Sister Bernice Kuper (formerly Sister Ann Bernice)
...at St. Francis Xavier in Wilmette. In Indiana she taught at St. Patrick in Terre Haute, Nativity in Indianapolis and Reitz Memorial High School in Evansville. She taught in Oregon at La Salle High School in Milwaukie. Bernice was elected a provincial councilor of St. Gabriel’s Province. She served as pastoral associate at her beloved St. John Parish in Newburgh, Ind., for 13 years. She earned her credentials in spiritual direction and pastoral counseling. Among her ministries is one that...
Saint Mother Theodore’s Legacy Lives: Giving Day 2022
...on wheels and respite care for caregivers. We provide spiritual programming through Providence Spirituality & Conference Center. A Sister of Providence doctor as well as nurses and health care ministers provide hope and healing. Spiritual directors and hospital chaplains attend to those who need spiritual guidance and comfort. Other urgent needs – Sisters work with refugees who have fled the violence in their countries and advocate for justice for the oppressed. White Violet Center for Eco-Justice provides organic food and...