This Providence Sister lets no grass grow under her feet! Some say she is like the Energizer Bunny because she is always going and going. This article gives us a brief glimpse of just some of her accomplishments. “Sister Mary Caritas Geary, SP, always has been a force to be reckoned with. As she completed her term at the Trinity [...]
Have you ever made a really stupid mistake? The kind where you look back and to yourself say: “how could I have done that” or “why didn’t that dawn on me?” Making mistakes is how we humans learn though. Case in point: The salt and pepper shakers in the kitchen I use for cooking had a slight flaw. My former [...]
Lent begins early this year. It seems we have just put away the tree, the ornaments, and the wrapping paper and already it’s time to receive ashes on our foreheads! We come once again to this sacred, earthy season of Lent, where we remember that it is from dust and earth from which we emerge and one day we shall [...]
A Mobile School—how very creative! In this article you will read the story of how the Congregation of Divine Providence from San Antonio, Texas and their Sisters in the region of Mexico serve the educational needs of poor children in Queretaro, Morelia and Mexico City. “Since 1962, the Congregation of Divine Providence has had professed Sisters in México. In 1996, [...]
On this Sunday we celebrate the feast of the Baptism of the Lord and the end to the Christmas season. “And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”’ (Luke 3:22) Recently on the radio I heard a talk host asking what keeps us happy and healthy in this journey we call [...]
Much has been written about these challenging days of 2020. It will no doubt be remembered as the year when the world was brought to its knees; when in some ways, darkness overshadowed the earth. Some might even say when the world stood still. Our lives were certainly changed. A global pandemic was upon us. We were scared. We were [...]
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 [...]
