Holy Week is coming up next week, a week wherein we remember Jesus’ suffering and his triumph over death. It seems an opportune time to reflect on the pain in our lives. We all experience pain, physical, mental or spiritual. But what we do with that pain matters.
Read moreProvidence Associate purchased organ at auction, then donated it
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Calling during the Sisters of Providence phonathon is a good way to reconnect with our friends and supporters, thank them for their help and take prayer requests.
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I began thinking that Ash Wednesday and Lent is the time that will begin my preparation for “after the dust.” I will use this time of Lent to think about being with the Creator now. Before my dust settles.
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May all be loved.
May all be healed.
May all be sheltered.
May all be free from fear.
Providence Associate Diann Neu offers prayers for people with cancer.
Cure our blindness so that we may see your beauty and your radiant light within all our sisters and brothers.
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Embrace this sacred season with hopefulness, with love. Find a way to work around conflict within your family and the world. Never forget that you are carrying the Christ within yourself. Your heart is the stable of life.
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So what is your gift? What can you lay down beside the manger? What would you give if you could give anything in the world?
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The Providence Advent calendar here begins with the first Sunday of Advent and uses quotes of Sisters of Providence (SP) and Providence Associates (PA) found on the SP website and in other PA and SP materials. May it help you enter into this season with reflections and actions for each day of Advent! You might want to keep an Advent journal to capture your reflections.
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This holiday season let’s look around us. Let’s open our hearts and look deeply into our world, into its heartbreak. Let’s look into the eyes of our loved ones and let them know we love them.
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“Every step of the process from orientation to meeting my companions to the year of study has affirmed that Providence, though unexpected and unbidden, is alive and well and welcome in my life. The Sisters of Providence are an amazing order of women religious. I have found camaraderie, companionship, compassion, laughter and wisdom in each one I have met. I want to be like them when I grow up.” Beth Weis, Chicago, Illinois. 26 new Providence Associates of the Sisters of Providence made first commitments last Saturday. They share some of that journey here in their own words.
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Check out this photo album from the ceremony this past Saturday, Nov. 14, where we welcomed 26 new Providence Associates of the Sisters of Providence.
Read moreGet a feel for who the Providence Associate community is and find inspiration in these stories. Reflections, poetry, articles and more by and about Providence Associates. Are you being called to walk with the Sisters of Providence as a Providence Associate?
Plan for your future!
Leave the things you value to the people and purposes you value most.
