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The Sisters of Divine Providence from Kentucky answered the call to help a refugee family from Afghanistan.  Though it was a whirlwind of preparation, they succeeded!  Here is their story.  With training sessions and background checks recently completed, all that was lacking was the phone call, and it came quickly: a family of five from Afghanistan would be arriving at the [...]

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The Sisters of Divine Providence in Melbourne, KY experienced an historic first in their worldwide congregation recently.  To celebrate their 260th anniversary they had a virtual event gathering all the entities that was met with worldwide enthusiasm! Sisters of Providence, today passionately embrace our Providence spirituality, the source of our unity…” (from 2018 General Chapter Orientation) The excitement was palpable [...]

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Our Provident God invites each of us to listen and to be open to the invitations God will send us. For they will surely come at any moment, anywhere, anytime. If our hearts are ready for this invasion of grace we will find new seeds of life nurturing our spirit and taking us to the depths of divine mystery. May [...]

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We all know how much the pandemic has affected our lives, both individually, communally and globally.  In this article, Sr. Donna Burkhart, a Sister of Providence from Mother Joseph Province in Seattle, WA shares with us the lessons she has learned.   “The pandemic has certainly disrupted all our lives.  Before the pandemic, we walked around with a sense of security [...]

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Our Winter 2022 Newsletter is now available with many stories from our congregations. In August, Sister Barbara McMullen will leave her post as Executive Director of Women of Providence. A search is underway for a Sister or Associate who can take the reins and lead us into the future. See the job description at https://www.wpcweb.org/executive-director/

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WPC – Providence Justice Collective invites you to a one-hour virtual workshop on the Doctrine of Discovery: Doctrine of Domination? The Doctrine of Discovery was and continues to this day to be foundational for legal and cultural racism.  It gave the Church’s blessing to settler-colonialism that ultimately wreaked havoc on existing (non-European) communities in the Caribbean and North America. Dates [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]