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For nearly 10 years, the Sisters in general prayer and service ministry at Providence Heights have volunteered their time by making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for Dr. Jim Withers’ Operation Safety Net—a program that provides medical treatment to the homeless in Pittsburgh. On the third Tuesday of every month, Sisters gather in an “assembly line” and make and individually [...]

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Being the human face of Providence means reaching out to others and leaving the comfort of our bubble. In the case of the missionary sisters, it also meant leaving their country, their language and their customs. We invited Sister Marcelle Deschênes (Antonine) to come talk to us about her missionary years in Argentina. She comes from Quebec, Canada, and now [...]

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“I was in prison and you came to me!” In recent years, towards the end of the month of October, some of us Sisters of Providence (who are volunteers to the Leclerc Detention Facility in Laval, North of Montreal, and before that the Tanguay Prison (Montreal), take advantage of the customary generosity of our companion Sisters of Providence of the Motherhouse [...]

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At the 2016 General Chapter, the Sisters of Providence created a chapter direction to increase the Congregation’s “awareness that we are an international, multi-cultural community.” Our New Membership Team has been reading the book “Living Mission Interculturally: Faith, Culture, and the Renewal of Praxis,” by Anthony Gittins, which discusses a way of intercultural living underpinned by faith, virtue and a [...]

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The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and Providence Associates celebrated 10 years in relationship November 17-19, 2017. In celebration, a new wall display was unveiled in Providence Spirituality & Conference Center, on the way to the shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. In the words of the vision statement, Providence Associates “further the charism of the Sisters of Providence [...]

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A total of 21 sisters from seven German-speaking communities (Ribeauville, Portiux, St. Jean de Bassel, from France; Schönbrunn, Münster, Mainz, from Germany, and Baldegg from Switzerland) attended the meeting last September. Sisters Hildegard Ewald, Siegfrieda Wildner and Angelika Hufgard attended from our community. The topic, “Trusting in God’s Providence”, was looked at from different aspects and with different methods. In [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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In 1998, the Sisters of Divine Providence instituted the Ketteler Award to honor individuals who demonstrate a strong commitment to social justice. The award, named for Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, Bishop of Mainz, Germany, and co-founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence, is presented annually. Bishop Ketteler, honored in Germany as the “social justice bishop,” was a [...]

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Sister Barbara McMullen entered religious life from St. Mary’s parish in Madison, Illinois. She credits the Sisters of Divine Providence who taught her in grade school, especially Sr. Leona Zimmerman and Sr. Mary Ann Haug, for influencing her decision to enter religious life. Both these women demonstrated happiness, peace, a loving and caring spirit and a giving nature of service [...]