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Providence Associate Program in its functioning. Currently 11 Associates and Sisters serve on the Committee. They are Associate Director Patricia St. Amand, chair, and Associates Connie Canata, Jim Clifford, Aida Gaouette, Dan McCavick, Patty McGovern, Dan Therrien, and Betty Wilda; and Sisters Julie Crane, Mary Martin de Porres Grisé and Geraldine Noonan. When Tracings asked former, longtime Core Committee member [...]

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Sister Veronica Kim loves the La Roche College community so much that she refers to herself as the campus mom. But Kim admitted that she never would have imagined she would one day work in the education field in America. Kim was born and raised in South Korea—a place she credits for profoundly impacting her life. She said that Korean [...]

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The WPC Governing Board met on April 10-11, 2019 for their annual meeting in Westfield, MA, at the Genesis Spirituality and Life Center. On April 11, as part of the agenda items, was the election of officers for the Executive Committee of the Board. The new officers are Sr. Dawn Tomaszewski, SP—Chair, Sr. Kathleen Popko, SP—Vice Chair, Sr. Karin Dufault, [...]

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Providence Companions, Associates, collaborators, relatives and friends of Sisters of Providence representing Quebec, Chile, Western United States and Western Canada, and as well as Haiti, Cameroon, Egypt, El Salvador, Argentina and the Philippines, all gathered as a Providence family for five days of celebrations. They were welcomed in a festive atmosphere, and they fully lived a glorious and unforgettable experience. [...]

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What started in 2017 as a kernel of an idea when the vocation directors of three of the Northern Kentucky religious communities, the Sisters of Divine Providence, the Sisters of Notre Dame, and the Benedictine Sisters of St. Walburg, met to brainstorm about how to collaborate developed into “United in Prayer.” Sr. Cathy Bauer, OSB; Sr. Ruth Lubbers, SND; and [...]

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Not too long ago we heard in the Scriptures the beautiful words of Isaiah: “God is always waiting to be gracious to you.” And then in the little black book that Bishop Ken Untener put out for Lent some time ago he is quoted as saying: “Keep this in mind: Religion is more about God loving us than us loving [...]

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As many of you know, and contributed to, we did a Survey of Sisters and Associates in our member congregations this year to determine whether we should continue to hold Providence Events.  Many of you completed the survey and gave us very good responses.  These were collated for the annual board meeting and used to guide the board in deliberations [...]

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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 [...]

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Over the weekend we had another shooting at a Jewish temple and several people were killed while others were injured.   While that horrible shooting was taking place, my own community of Sisters and Associates were writing letters to our senators and representatives in Congress about gun violence.  As we were gathered for this justice action and prayer, a person armed [...]

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Today’s blog message comes from Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, a Sister of Providence from St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN.  She is the new board chair of the Women of Providence in Collaboration.  Just when it looked like spring and Easter were actually going to converge…Just when the tulips and red bud trees had convinced me that spring and Easter were actually going to [...]