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June 13, 2021: Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
...ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.” He said, “To what shall we compare the reign of God, or what parable can we use for it? It is like a mustard see that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the...
Oral History: Sister Gloria Memering looks back on more than 60 years as a Sister of Providence
...fields in the summers and during the spring plantings. “It was fun! Dawn to dark,” she said, her enjoyment evident in her voice. When she wasn’t working in the fields during high school summers, she worked at the Peach Orchard beginning in fifth grade, to help out. Gloria as a child, sitting in back in white, surrounded by her sisters and cousins ‘Her influence propelled me to religious life.’ Sister Gloria treasured her grandmother, a woman of deep faith who...
Did you know? An award named after the late Sister Dorothy Drobis
...the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). “UIC has one of the most diverse student bodies of universities in the United States,” she said. “Many students are first generation students and many are supported through Monetary Award Program (MAP) grants.” The Sister Dorothy Drobis award is given each spring. It goes to an outstanding junior or senior majoring in education who intends to teach in an urban environment. All applicants must be members of the UIC Honors College. The award...
What is asylum?
...came together in the wake of the Holocaust. They committed that never again would they return people fleeing persecution to danger. Prior to spring of 2018, when migrants arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum, they could approach a port of entry and express their fear of returning to their country. They would immediately be given a fear assessment and paroled into the U.S. based on the merits of that assessment. From there, they would be given a court...
Seeing Saint Mother Theodore’s writings in new lights: A feast day reflection
...I read them, I felt as though I was reading a letter addressed to me. In that moment of prayer, I experienced God’s Providence through Mother Theodore. Since that morning, I have pictured Mother Theodore still living among us as we endure this unrelenting pandemic. Conversation with Mother Theodore Many years ago, Sisters Paula Damiano, SP, and Jan Craven, SP, facilitated a spring retreat for the Providence Associates. We were given a random quote from Mother Theodore’s writings, and were...
Redecorating our Guest Room
...is a mess right now as we fulfill our mid-contract management commitment on that land. To ensure its health for the long-term, we mowed the fields and prepared them for a replanting of seed this winter. It’s looking pretty drab right now. This process, however, will reinvigorate the existing growth and fill in spaces and species that perhaps didn’t establish well at initial planting. I guess I should just think of this as redecorating the guest room. Come Spring, it...
Walking a labyrinth: one Providence Associate’s experience
...my connection with the Congregation. Do you have a favorite season for walking the labyrinth? I have a preference for the fall months because of the natural beauty of the trees as their colors change. I also believe the visual dying of natural things brings a clear sense of supporting my own letting go and letting come. Another person might prefer spring as the natural time for growth and rebirth. Just as the act of walking supports a deep and...
Sister Ann Stephen Stouffer
...a kid at heart, squealing with delight as she rode the roller coaster with us at Disneyland.” Ann had a talent for finding her way out of the small crises of life. Her cousins Mary Ellen lived in nearby Riverside while her husband was stationed overseas, and on one of their get-togethers, she invited Ann to join her and the kids for an outing to Palm Springs. On the way home, they were hit by a sandstorm so furious that...
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
...Congregation’s former magazine “Canticle,” Sister Mary Jean wrote about a training session in Atlanta where they both encountered King. Sister Mary Jean wrote, “We had been expecting him all day, though the timing of his arrival remained unannounced … one of King’s men explained to me that it would be dangerous to publicize his arrival … for he had many enemies. In spring, three years later one of those enemies found his target.” Sister Mary Jean continued: “I hope that...
Newsnotes from the Sisters of Providence winter 2022
...Eco-Justice Director Lorrie Heber will officially retire on March 1. Lorrie joined the Sisters of Providence in the spring of If you have had the pleasure of taking a tour or class from Lorrie, you’ll immediately feel her passion for eco-justice and teaching people about living more sustainably. Congratulations to Lorrie on her retirement. We know she will enjoy many more exciting adventures with her husband Tom. New Providence Associates From front left: Jennifer Christos, Michael Booth, Erin Gick, Kathleen...
Meaningful new names for the roads of Saint Mary’s
...beauty of this place, The friendliness, and O the grace. This Woodland is a glowing tapestry Where are depicted all the lights and shade Of God’s dear love, so that Should we some morning miss the messenger’s Swift pinions brushing dawn tipped clouds Or spilling silver ripples of spring rain We still might find that shadows, fugitive, between White petals sifting gently down Beneath a dogwood tree, or in the elfin touch Of the first snowflake on a lingering brown...
Poem: Earth rising
...it once did it cries in need of it pleads for us in all the ways it can When the Earth speaks it speaks in tones for all that grows within and without it springs from well-being it speaks to all who have discovered the words to live by it speaks in a language that only those who have risen to its voice can understand it lives through their response and when they forget their birthright It speaks for itself...