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Land Justice
...have influenced society over the centuries. Be prepared to explore and discuss topics related to the earth beneath our feet. As we embark on our journey to Turtle Island, also known as North America, let’s remember that this land is the ancestral home of hundreds of Indigenous nations. Recent revelations have brought to light the existence of boarding schools and institutional programs and policies that caused great harm to the homes, cultures, and lives of these nations who have been...
The Season of Creation 2022: Listen to the Voice of Creation
...Each Sunday and Wednesday, the Climate Change Task Force will provide opportunities to journey to care for all of creation. We invite each sister, associate and reader to respond as we move forward in our Laudato Si’ Action Platform commitment to climate justice. The logo for Season of Creation 2022, the burning bush, will appear on all Season of Creation 2022 communications. The bush contrasts the fire of so many unnatural fires that aggravate the climate crisis, with the sign...
Prayer for an unusual Lent
...only need say “yes.” As Jesus accepted the cup that was given him to drink, we are asked to drink of a different cup not chosen by us. Jesus’ gift was for us to share deeply in the life given us. Joining in his suffering and surrender allows us to extend that gift to our fellow pilgrims on the journey. You are invited to offer this Lenten prayer based on the sorrowful mysteries of the Rosary. Through Sacred Scripture, meditation,...
Prayer for Moms and Dads
Loving God, Cast your gleaming light upon all of us Moms and Dads as we walk the most demanding journey of all. Pour into us unimaginable love and ready us to nurture the children You entrust to our care. Send insight and understanding as little ones grow. Send judgment and wisdom to know when to praise and when to correct. And when they are grown, bestow on us the peacefulness that we did as we were able and that it...
A Prayer for Arbor Day, April 24, 2020
...Journey of Travel, May 1844 The beauty of the forests of Indiana in the rich and lovely month of May surpasses all description. The rivers, swollen by the rains, flow through long lanes of verdure, caressing the islands they seem to carry with them in their course and which look like floating nosegays. The trees raise their straight trunks to the height of more than a hundred and twenty feet and are crowned with tops of admirable beauty. The magnolia,...
The Art of Isolation
You’ve seen the memes and the stories on the news. People are having a difficult time with social distancing. I ran into a church friend at the grocery store last night, and it was all I could do to refrain from hugging her. Right now, being together is not good for us. But how can we cope with being alone? It will take a journey to the center of ourselves to find the answers. Though you fill a room with...
Sister Rosemary Rafter (formerly Sister Rose Claire)
...an important part of all family celebrations. Auntie Rosie, a dog lover herself, was a great pet sitter.” Joan will certainly miss the “pearls of wisdom” Rosemary so often shared with her. In February 1951, Rosemary made her way across the Wabash River to enter the Sisters of Providence. It was a memorable journey to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in negative 20-degree weather and nine inches of snow. Rosemary professed final vows in 1958. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education at...
July 13, 2025: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...some time in prayerful reflection on today’s Gospel. Place yourself in each of these roles. Journal if you’re so inclined. How do you suppose the traveler’s views of Samaritan people changed after this event? What trust in Providence was required for the next time that traveler had to make a similar journey? What blessings and happiness may be in the untold “next chapter” of this story? Whom might you encounter during a typical week that may become your “unlikely community?”...
Reflection and Prayer for an Execution
...are journeys that all who experience violence must walk. Yet in forgiving us – all of us – on the cross, Jesus created space for those who seem beyond the task of forgiving and of being forgiven. This act allows us to feel without blame the fullness of our human emotion.* From the cross, from the point of death, Jesus creates for us a space to both feel and forgive. May we not forget this gift. May we find the...
Sister Joan Slobig (formerly Sister Denis Mary)
A reading from 1 Corinthians 13:12-13 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part, then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now, faith, hope and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. Sister Joan Slobig My life has been one filled with abundant blessings and some challenges along the journey. I chose the scripture quote that...
Elizabeth Kuo, beloved “Grandma Kuo” of the sisters in Asia
...Providence, the community made sure Grandma Kuo took one more journey with the Sisters of Providence — this time to Indiana and Saint Mary-of-the Woods. When Mother Marie Gratia was dying, Aunt Kuo spent her free time caring for her. She said Mother Marie Gratia had taken care of her like a mother, “so she must do her filial duty at the end of her life.” When Elizabeth died in 2003, the sisters honored her wish to be buried near...
Our sisters in Asia speak: What it means to be a Sister of Providence
...to be God’s tool, to do God’s will.” Sister Norene Wu: “To be a Sister of Providence for me means to lean my total trust on God together with our Providence community to share our charism with others through our work of love, mercy, and justice. No matter what ministry, journeying with others through their joy and pain and experience of God’s presence is life giving for me.” Sister Donna Marie Fu, right, helps record an event in Taiwan on...