In a season where we sometimes can get really focused on what we are going to give, let’s become gracious receivers of God’s hospitality, receptors of the sacred
Read moreSister Dawn reflects on the Providence community as we welcome new Providence Associates. May this community be one that mirrors the community established more than 2,000 years ago by Jesus. A community based on mutual, abiding love and not, as with other human institutions, on power or fear.
Read moreWell, the fact that we are still here 179 years later is certainly testimony to the Providence of God. It is also testimony to all those sisters in the U.S. as well as in China and Taiwan AND to the many other Dotties, Mandys and Margies in our larger community of Providence who have not let appearances keep them from doing good, doing lots of good.
Read more‘Give me, give us, this heart of Mother Theodore with which to treasure the power and promise of the cross.’
Read moreIs not your heart burning inside to know this Christ, Jessica, to welcome this Christ as the core of your truest self?
Read moreThis Jubilee is as much about looking forward as it is about looking back.
Read moreWhat we make of Saint Mother Theodore’s legacy will be our legacy – will we follow and not look back?
Read moreThis Memorial Day, I hope you will remember some hero or heroine of your own, an obscure apostle, perhaps.
Read moreMay the convergence of spring and Easter restore your soul
Read moreSome life lessons were learned in the quiet of St. Monica Church
Read moreI would like to offer hospitality to those seeking asylum in our country. I would like to provide shelter for the innocent in war-torn places and in the violent places in our own U.S. cities. I would like to be a better keeper of the planet.
Read moreSister Dawn Tomaszewski is the general superior of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. These are some of her writings.