The Women of Providence in Collaboration support the work of LCWR's office of Social Mission in their endeavors to shed light on various issues of social justice, such as racism, gun violence, climate change, immigration, and Earth Day to name a few. Members of the Global Concerns Committee want to examine the root causes of racism, our own complicity in [...]
Providence prevailed on Thursday, November 15, when the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, learned that the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) had awarded tax credits for a project at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The credits will be used to create 64 units of affordable housing for seniors by the Congregation in the current, vacant Owens Hall on the motherhouse [...]
The Sisters of Divine Providence, in Allison Park, PA, began a Refugee Assistance project in earnest in September 2018, as they welcomed asylum-seeking refugees from La Posada Providencia—their sponsored ministry located in San Benito, Texas—to Pittsburgh. The refugee families—mostly mothers with young children, originally from Central America and Africa—live in a fully furnished, equipped and family-friendly six-bedroom house donated to [...]
In 1995, five Sisters of Providence took up residence in the village of La Papalota, in the Department of Usulután in El Salvador, ministering to rural communities in the Bajo Lempa region. Twenty-four years later, much has changed in this part of El Salvador, but the Sisters of Providence continue their work, inspired by the faith and courage of the [...]
Lent is upon us once again. We often think of it as a penitential season. But perhaps we might consider it a growing season. Lent is a journey, a process of growth, a time of entering into sacred inner space where we might assess the heights to which we've climbed, the risks we've taken, the shortcomings we've known. It is [...]
Be sure to look in the SHOP on this website for the new WPC Lenten Prayer Services. These are free downloadable prayer services beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing, one per week, throughout the six weeks of Lent. These prayer services use excerpts from the WPC latest publication: Providence and Peace: Connecting and Co-Creating for Justice as readings. Responses and [...]
The Republican premiered its newest heritage book “The Power of Women” at a festive book launch held October 18 at the Log Cabin, Holyoke, MA. Edited by regional historians Wayne Phaneuf and Joseph Carvalho III, the book showcases over 1,000 women the two regard as standouts from among the legions of women who helped shape the region’s society since the [...]
PeaceQuest wound up its formal events on November 11 with our third sold-out Remembrance Day concert at The Isabel. It was an afternoon of song and celebration. (PeaceQuest was a ministry of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent De Paul in Kingston, Ontario, Canada). The previous day we assembled 150 people at City Hall’s Memorial Room for a conference [...]
In the late 1970’s, after Vatican Council II, religious orders were asked to identify their founding charism, their special gift in the Church. After a long process and many workshops, we articulated our special charism as “Serving with Compassion, Trusting in Providence, We Walk in Hope”. Notice this is not a mission or a vision or a values statement but [...]
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 [...]
