As Advent ends and Christmas is nearly here, the simple joys of children come to mind. Sometimes you never know what will come out of their little mouths or heads. I was talking with my friend Carol last night and she shared with me two little "stories" of one of her nieces. Both of them made me laugh out loud! [...]
“If only” is one of the saddest expressions in the English language, expressing the mind’s regret, says Angel Chernoff. “It is the lament of a broken heart over an opportunity lost, the moaning of a soul now aware of what could have been.” “If only.” A priest friend used this in a recent homily and it started me thinking. Thanks [...]
It's always difficult to say goodbye to a ministry to which you have given many years of your life, but that is exactly what these two Divine Providence Sisters had to do. In San Benito, Texas for a little more than three decades, Sister Margaret Mertens and Sister Zita Telkamp have called the Valley their home as they opened their [...]
In these times of confusion, anxiety, and worry during the pandemic I came across this reflection today on HOPE. As many of you know it is my word for the year 2020. Little did I know that on January 1 when this word came to me in prayer as my word for the year, that I would so desperately need [...]
Most of the time the stories on the WPC website revolve around the Sisters. This one though is about Associates from the Holyoke, MA area and the new leadership taking place among them. Prior to the annual Missioning Day ceremony on September 27, 2020, there was a special ritual to recognize the change in leadership for the Sisters of [...]
The Sisters of Providence, Mother Joseph Province in Seattle, have been very busy these days. In this strange new world we’re navigating, we have no choice but to break out of our established patterns and look at what we do – how we connect, how we work, how we live – in different ways. It seems like forever since we [...]
We are now in the middle of the first week of Advent. It feels like it came too soon and I wasn’t ready, though it is my favorite liturgical season! It is a time that calls each of us to open our eyes to see new things, new faces, new situations in a different way. It is a time that [...]
These two Sisters are from the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN. Both professed vows this past summer. On July 26 Sister Corbin Hannah professed perpetual vows as a Sister of Providence and Sister Teresa Kang professed her first vows. Because of Covid-19, of course, families could not attend their celebrations. However, even with masks and physical distancing taking [...]
I read this reflection today by Mark Clark, from Community Works, Inc. They always put out some really good articles. This one that came today is a bit longer than most of the blogs I write, but it is well worth the read. Reflecting on Thanksgiving in a Time of Pandemic by Mark Clarke “A great house is open to [...]
Our nation, that proposes from its leaders to be pro-life, has reinstated the death penalty. Sadly executions are taking place in various states in our country. Near to the home of the Sisters of Providence in Terre Haute, IN is the Federal Correctional Complex where executions have been taking place after a hiatus of 17 years. This story puts a [...]
