The Sisters of Divine Providence held their annual General Assembly June 25-29, 2019. During this time they had presentations on being the Incarnation of Love in our world today. One of the topics that was explored was that of the crises we are facing in our country with the new Zero Tolerance policy being implemented. They drafted and accepted unanimously [...]
A very long time ago, some 2000 years, a couple of Hebrew parents left their homeland and immigrated to Egypt along with their young son. The child was being threatened and was in danger of being killed. The parents, Joseph and Mary, did the only thing they could do to save their child; they took whatever they could, made a [...]
Communities Organized for Public Service (C.O.P.S.) is an organization of 26 parishes in the predominantly Hispanic, low-income West Side and South Side of San Antonio, TX. Founded in 1974, it is the oldest of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) organizations in Texas and, indeed, in the entire national network. The Metro Alliance, which shares office space and many resources with [...]
It is a tradition and an obligation of the Congregation to care for its sick and elderly members. To meet this need St. Joseph Hall was built in 1933 followed in 1960 with Regan Hall and then in 1972 McCullough Hall. McCullough Hall is a 51-bed licensed nursing facility. The mission is to continue the healing ministry of Jesus Christ [...]
The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos was written by Brian Swimme, a speaker at Providence Event 2008. It is available from Amazon. Brian Thomas Swimme is a professor of cosmology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, in San Francisco. His department, "Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness" (PCC), is the only graduate program in the western world that places equal emphasis [...]
Sisters of Divine Providence, San Antonio - The Sisters of Divine Providence, San Antonio, TX, held their annual General Assembly June 25 - 29. During this time, they had presentations on being the Incarnation of Love in our world today. One of the topics that was explored was that of the crises we are facing in our country with the [...]
Several years ago, a request came from the Leader-ship Conference of Women Religious for communities to help Sisters from developing countries to obtain higher education. The Congregation of Divine Providence (CDP) is blessed to be in a position to contribute to this effort by hosting Sisters from Vietnam, Tanzania, and Uganda. The CDP has also hosted Sisters from around the [...]
December 3 marked the beginning of Advent, but it also marked a new beginning for me as I was formally received into the Pre-Novitiate formation program for the Congregation of Divine Providence. Advent has always been a special liturgical season for me, so it was very meaningful that the entrance ceremony was held on that particular day. Just as Advent [...]
