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Providence Spirituality

On spirituality and aging

By Sister Ann Casper | October 15, 2015 |

Our spirituality is about living our experience of God. We do not “change” spirituality and put on a different one for aging, a different one for work. We don’t change spirituality like we change clothing. Living our experience of God is influenced by each of our temperaments. By our social, financial, educational, denominational and cultural context. And that experience of God, that spirituality, affects our daily living.

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Devotion at a global level: Sister Mary Rita Griffin

By Sister Tracey Horan | October 15, 2015 |

Sister Mary Rita Griffin is a person who radiates passion and takes her ministry to heart. Her role as Our Lady of Providence shrine coordinator, which she took on in July of 2014, is no exception to her single-hearted character.
“I have been amazed by the rich friendships that are happening through my role all centered on Our Lady of Providence,” Sister Mary says. “It’s a growing role for me as more people share their love for her, and I love the international flavor of it.”

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‘Change our politics and not just our policies’

By Jason Moon | October 7, 2015 |

Sisters Arrianne Whittaker, Mary Mundy offer perspective of Nuns on the Bus stops

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Running in the dark

By Sister Tracey Horan | October 5, 2015 |

Sister Tracey reflects on the experience of running in the dark and what it teaches her about community: “As silly as I knew my fear of the dark was…the knowledge of other bouncing lights was so hopeful to me in those pre-dawn moments.”

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In the Pope’s Presence

By Jason Moon | October 2, 2015 |

Sister Lawrence Ann Liston reflects on witnessing Pope Francis’s address

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The pope and the golden rule

By Lori Strawn | September 25, 2015 |

What Francis speaks is Christ-centered, Gospel-centered common sense. Let us rejoice that we have a Pope who speaks for the poor, who challenges those in power, who will not be shut up by nay-sayers who call him a false prophet.

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A lampworker’s meditation

By Marilyn Rausch | September 24, 2015 |

The color and clarity are full of potential, but it must change from its brittle, breakable self into the beauty for which it is designed. The bead is in the glass rod, but it is not the glass rod.

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Voice lessons in discernment

By Sister Tracey Horan | September 12, 2015 |

Our goal in letting go and re-learning how to breathe was to set the vocal chords free to do what they do best: express my natural, God-given voice. After just two voice lessons, I am amazed at how much the process of singing freely parallels and embodies the process of freeing the soul to discern. I invite you to explore these observations with me and how they might apply to your spiritual path at this place, in this time.

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Celebrating Labor Day from a ‘different perspective’

By Sister Donna Butler | September 11, 2015 |

Thoughts were different this year

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Sharing their voice by ‘Giving Voice’

By Jason Moon | August 24, 2015 |

‘We’re breathing this new air’

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Sister Anna Fan hopes that as a novice, her “spiritual life can grow deeper and wider”.

By Sisters of Providence | August 20, 2015 |

Editor’s note: Sister Anna (Tsai Ping) Fan entered her Canonical Novice year with the Sisters of Providence on Aug. 2. She requested of the Congregation, “I ask to be accepted…

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Reflecting on the amazing life of Sister Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN: Martyr of the Amazon

By Sister Donna Butler | August 19, 2015 |

Sisters offer perspective after attending one-woman play

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“The God of Providence carries the entire mystery of the divine, ever trustworthy, never failing. The God of Providence offers all the possibilities for ourselves and the world, including both what God wants to happen and what God is willing to let happen because God honors the gift of human freedom. The choices are ours — truly free, but ever grounded in the grace of God, the Holy Mystery of Providence, about which there is ever more to be discovered.” – Sister Ruth Eileen Dwyer

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