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From us to you: Blessings to you for giving
...we can continue the mission and ministries of the SPs. Collectively, you sent in 8,028 gifts in 2020 and we thank you for each and every one! Your thoughtful gifts have helped us: Increase our retirement fund for the support and care of aging sisters in their residences or in health care facilities. Provide resources for our new sisters. We have six women in initial formation and your donations provided education and spiritual enrichment for these women as they grow...
Smile for the camera!
...their spiritual walks from the prior week, listen to scriptural passages and reflect on the messages that Providence wants to share. Not surprisingly, as Sister Susanne explains, growing in faith is a two-way street. Through the sharing, catechists learn from friends just as friends learn from catechists. This exchange is what makes the SPRED model a compelling and beautiful spiritual experience. Families travel from great distances throughout the Archdiocese of Chicago to bring their loved ones to SPRED. Sister Susanne...
Sister Rita Lerner (formerly Sister Edward Clare)
...had on others: “Thank you for the wonderful tour you gave our group yesterday. The tour was really a spiritual journey for all of us. However, what made it even more delightful was your sunny personality. You are truly an inspiration!” Eventually, Rita herself gained the official designation of “retired.” Here’s how she described that phase of ministry: “Being a retired sister here at the Woods is a foretaste of heaven. The beauty and spiritual advantages and above all the...
Growing together spiritually: Providence Associate spring retreat
The Providence Community of Providence Associates, Sisters of Providence and friends gathered the weekend of March 15-17 for the Providence Community spring retreat. Participants gathered both in person at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and virtually via Zoom. Sisters of Providence Chaplain Father Terry Johnson led the retreat on our place in the universe and how we find God within it. It was a weekend of connecting with community, communing with nature, stretching our spiritual understandings and growing closer to God. Enjoy these...
Summer Used Book Sale
July 28, 2023 at 10:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT The Foley Room at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center 1 Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 Sisters of Providence Free Browse hundreds of gently-used books at our summer sale in the Foley Room across from Linden Leaf Gifts in Providence Spirituality & Conference Center. Your donation is your price....
Saint Mother Theodore’s advice to an impatient sister: unpublished letters
...If you had sufficient empire over yourself to be gentle and kind, first towards your Sisters, then towards the children who assist you, your soul would enjoy much more peace; you would perform your spiritual exercises with much more fervor and spiritual profit. So I think, my daughter, that you ought to turn all your strength of will to that point, and often say to yourself, “Come, my soul, can you not make the sacrifice of a word to please...
June 22, 2025: The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
...up, twelve baskets of broken pieces. Reflection Years ago, when I and three others were leading a spiritual companion training program, we used this biblical passage emphasizing “you give them to eat” while reflecting on our call as people to enhance with others the spiritual life connection with God. It was deeply powerful. A call of the Christian community living and acting in trust and with enough for all. This reflection in our training program is solid and invites us...
Sister Jean Michele Monaghan (formerly Sister John Michele)
...the age of 44, she entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Providence on Sept. 12, 1963. Today, of course, we are somewhat accustomed to older women entering religious life, but in 1963 being 44 years old in the midst of sixty teenage postulants was quite a challenge. Her easy-going manner and keen sense of humor saw her through the novitiate and juniorate. Hers was a very common-sense sort of spirituality. In a “spiritual profile” written in later years she...
Evolving Providence in time of pandemic and beyond
...more.” Now living in Lourdes Hall, Sister Martha facilitates activities for her co-residents there and elsewhere, including transportation to appointments with doctors and to other destinations in Terre Haute and Indianapolis. Evolving interdependence “Since that time, we have evolved in our understanding of how dependent we are on others and how interdependent we are being invited to be. Now we recognize how important it is that the campus has become a center of prayer and spirituality in the Wabash Valley,”...
Sister Marceline looks back on the richness of 84 years as a woman religious
...is fulfilling because all the things I thought I would do in life have happened. I’ve been given many opportunities to advance in my spiritual life, from attending workshops, annual retreats, reading spiritual books, participating in faith and life sharing groups. A great life I was able to teach children about God no matter what subject I was teaching. Life sciences were my area of expertise and that gave me the opportunities to teach the wonder of God’s creation. The...
Evolution of Wisdom Thought
...that follow. Join us and Dr. Arthur Feinsod for the final Evolution of Wisdom Thought workshop, from 9:30-11:30 a.m., on Saturday, June 22. Each session will take place in the Community Room at Providence Hall. The final session will focus on “Mohandas Gandhi’s Spirituality and Politics.” Staying in the 20th century but shifting to a Hindu perspective, we will examine Gandhi’s spiritual principles and how they emerge from ancient ones set forth in “The Upanishads and The Bhagavad-Gita.” We will...
Sister Ruth Sampson (formerly Sister Constance Mary)
...served among four different Tribes of Native Americans. Each of these experiences fed her indomitable spirit and helped shape her spirituality. She was as comfortable with the African American community in Roxbury, Massachusetts as she was with the Hispanic farm workers in the southern California desert. She walked the streets of New Taipei City in Taiwan with the same ease and comfort as she would on the Indian reservation in South Dakota. She knew how to adapt herself in different...