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Celebrating Puzzles!

By Sister Donna Butler | January 29, 2022 |

What activities help you to calm yourself during this pandemic?

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Installation ceremony Jan 23, 2022

By Casey Kellum | January 24, 2022 |

The Sisters of Providence introduced their new leadership team during an installation ceremony on Sunday, Jan. 23. The new team consists of (from left) General Councilor Sister Anne Therese Falkenstein,…

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Sisters of Providence officially install new leadership

By Jason Moon | January 24, 2022 |

They plan to conduct a broader celebration of the installation later this year

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Newsnotes from the Sisters of Providence winter 2022

By Sisters of Providence | January 12, 2022 |

A restored lake, a new postulant, a new alpaca and new Providence Associates. Catch up on all that is new with the Sisters of Providence.

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Looking racism in the eye: there is still much to do

By Sister Ann Margaret O'Hara | January 12, 2022 |

My home town was a small city that did not permit African-Americans within the city limits after dark. The deed to our house did not allow us to sell our house to anyone of African-American descent.

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Woods Core Class brings students, sisters together

By Sister Donna Butler | January 12, 2022 |

I shared with them information about our spirituality, our current ministries, justice efforts and values. I answered their questions about religious life and shared my personal experience of this life.

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A new leadership team for the Sisters of Providence

By Jason Moon | January 12, 2022 |

The Chapter meeting culminated in the election of the Congregation’s Leadership Team of the next five years.

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Anti-Racism: the Providence Community’s justice focus for 2021-2026

By Sister Paula Damiano | January 12, 2022 |

We commit to partnering with other groups in prayer, education, action and advocacy to: explore the systemic roots of racism in our countries and in our own lives; identify areas of our lives in which we may be complicit with racist attitudes and actions …

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Spring tree in front of the Church of the Immaculate Conception

Providence Community commits to develop Laudato Si’ Action Platform

By Sister Cathy Campbell | January 12, 2022 |

The commitment that Sister Dawn signed on behalf of the Providence Community states, among other points, that the Sisters of Providence are willing “To take up the urgent appeal of Laudato Si’ to listen and respond to the lurings of Providence to attend to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor by making it a community priority.”

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Let the Sisters of Providence pray for you!

By Sisters of Providence | January 12, 2022 |

Here are some of the many ways to request prayers from the Sisters of Providence.

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What’s next for O’Shaughnessy Dining Hall?

By Maureen Dickinson | January 12, 2022 |

We invite you to put on your creative thinking cap and help us brainstorm! Do you have suggestions for uses of O’Shaughnessy Dining Hall that will help provide income needed to sustain the building and ministries of the Woods?

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Sister Kathleen Bernadette Smith: love of God strengthens love of others

By Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp | January 12, 2022 |

Kate found the “fit” she was looking for with the Sisters of Providence. She found a group of religious women whose spirituality fit with hers and who shared her love of music. For Sister Kate, both of those characteristics define much of who she is.

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