The Sisters of Providence from Kingston, Ontario have had experience with pandemics. This article chronicles their living through the Influenza Pandemic in 1918. "The Fall of 1918 was a tumultuous time around the world, in Ontario and for the Sisters of Providence. The First World War wasn’t over yet, but soldiers were starting to arrive home from Europe bringing with [...]
One of my close friends shared her poem with me..."A Covid Eastering." While we are still in the Easter season, and still in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic, I thought it a poignant piece to share with all of you. We do indeed continue to rise...and to witness the sheer sacrifice of first responders, health care workers, grocery [...]
The other day I was out for a walk and happened to see a rainbow. It made me think about God's love for us and the faithfulness of God's covenant with us. It made me think about something I had written some years back in my book, Soul Stretching: The Inner Landscape of an Ordinary Life. In these days of [...]
In these times of the corona virus people are experiencing grief in many forms. Social distancing has kept us from loved ones and social circles. Life has changed on all levels and people are searching for meaning. You hear more timeless questions being asked, especially as we experience Holy Week this year as never before. There seems to be a [...]
In November, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods community begins a year of celebration highlighting the 100th anniversary of the Congregation’s mission to China. As a first step, sisters, staff, associates and others began reading “Against All Odds,” a biography of the sisters’ mission written by Sister Ann Colette Wolf. A summer retreat is also being planned. The Congregation [...]
Listeners ask a variety of questions from "workplace woes" to "holier than thou friends" on the Ask Sister podcast with Sister Clara and Sister Maxine. A surprise guest sister is also brought in by phone. CLICK HERE to listen to the podcast.
Lent kind of snuck up on me this year, probably because of my roommate’s passing to her eternal reward and my life being turned upside down a bit. Perhaps things in your own life have had some twists and turns. Well Lent might just be the time to slow down a bit, take stock of ourselves and our spiritual lives. [...]
I recently went with a friend to see the movie, "The Two Popes." I certainly was intrigued to see how the two very different men would be portrayed. In the very beginning the audience is told that the movie is "inspired" by true events, but most of it is fictionalized. The imagined conversations between the two men take place at [...]
When I was a little girl I used to wonder what the words “traverse afar” meant. Every year we would sing that Christmas carol, “We Three Kings” about these wise men who followed a star. Where’d they come from, how far was it, why did they make this long journey? Of course, over the years I learned that these men [...]
During Advent we often hear in the Scripture readings from Isaiah, the prophet, who paints his vision for the future, a compelling vision that has often been named “the peaceable kingdom.” He speaks of a vision of a new heaven and new earth; of life coming out of destruction; a shoot sprouts from the seemingly dead stump of the tree; [...]
