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The Women of Providence in Collaboration met for their annual board meeting on April 10-11, 2019 at the Genesis Spirituality and Life Center in Westfield, MA. The following Sisters are the new officers for the Executive Committee of the Board: Front row sitting: Kathleen Popko, SP–Vice-Chair, Alice Marie Lyon, CDP-Treasurer Back row: standing: Dawn Tomaszewski, SP–Chair, Barbara McMullen, CDP–Executive Director, [...]
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Today the Women of Providence in Collaboration begin their annual Spring board meeting. It is being held this year at Genesis Retreat and Spiritual Life Center in Holyoke, MA from April 10-11, 2019. At this meeting the board members will hear reports from the Executive Director on all the events happening with and for the WPC. They will discuss a [...]
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Recently I learned that St. Isidore of Seville, bishop and doctor of the Church, was the patron saint of the Internet. St. John Paul II made this declaration in 1997 over 1300 years after Isidore had died. Apparently in the 600’s when St. Isidore of Seville lived, theology was mostly a monastic affair, due to the fact that many people [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]