In this month when we celebrate Consecrated Life, the Sisters of Providence from St. Mary of the Woods, IN have recently welcomed a new postulant to their community. In the photo, Sr. Dawn Tomaszewski, SP, General Superior, welcomes Leslie. Jason Moon, who works for the Sisters, tells her story as follows: "Leslie Dao felt something missing in her life. After [...]
Some of the WPC congregations have taken this survey and might be interested in this Event happening February 15, 2022 via Zoom. See information below. Thanks to responses from more than 1,100 sisters spanning three generations, a recent survey explored the experiences of Catholic sisters in their ministries and found that "ministry satisfaction is an essential aspect of sisters' life [...]
The Sisters of Divine Providence in Allison Park, PA will soon be calling a new place "home" for several of its residents. Hearing the sounds of construction all around them, the Sisters are also seeing this facility being built from the ground up each day. On Sunday, August 1, 2021, as the Bells of Providence Heights rung out, the Sisters [...]
This article is reprinted from The Catholic Spirit, newspaper of the Charleston, West Virginia diocese. It is written by Joyce Bibey, and speaks about Sr. Carole Riley, CDP and her ministry at the West Virginia Institute for Spirituality. As she stands in the parlor of a retreat house which graces Virginia Street in Charleston, Sister Carole Riley bids farewell to folks she [...]
Sister Maria Fest, CDP, Congregational Leader of the Sisters of Divine Providence, writes about their upcoming congregational chapter and the 170th anniversary of their founding in this article. We are preparing for our 24th Congregational (General) Chapter as well as celebrating the 170th Anniversary of our founding by Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler and Stephanie Fredericka Amalie de la Roche [...]
We just celebrated the feast of Epiphany...the revelation of Jesus, the Son of God, to the Gentiles. This year, because of the way the days fell, Christmas, the feast of the Holy Family, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, and Epiphany were all squeezed together in a little over just one week! We hardly had time to savor the [...]
I received a request from Sr. Nancy Sylvester, IHM, about this workshop that is being offered by the Institute for Communal Contemplation. Your congregations may have received the same information, however I promised Nancy I would distribute the information here on the WPC blog. It is a deeper "dive" into what Nancy presented to us at the last Providence Event. [...]
Sr. Yvette Demers, SP, Vice-postulator of the Emilie Tavernier Gamelin Cause write about the 170th Anniversary of the Death of Mother Emilie Tavernier Gamelin and the 20th anniversary of her beaitification 1851-2021. "History tells us that at the end of August 1851, there were reports of an outbreak of cholera in Montreal. Even though this made it risky to undertake [...]
The Sisters of Providence in Holyoke, MA sponsor a retreat and spirituality center known as Genesis. This summer they celebrated its 45th anniversary with approximately 400 people on zoom and 30 in person who heard a presentation by famous author, Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB. Friends of Genesis Spiritual Life Center celebrated its 45th Anniversary on July 18, 2021. While a [...]
On December 17 the gospel for the day tells the genealogy of Jesus...a long list of names going back 42 generations. There were all kinds of characters along the way in Jesus' family history, and some of them weren't the best people. Nonetheless, they were part of Jesus' story. And through him part of ours, too. It seems that whenever [...]
