For those who were not able to be with us in February for the one day ZOOM virtual Providence Event, I am posting here a link to the special issue we did on the Providence Event. The theme was: Providence: Where Justice and Radical Hope Meet. It was a wonderful day, a day filled with insights, challenges, and inspiration from…
Nancy Sylvester, IHM, is the speaker for our WPC Providence Event on February 20, 2021. This is a virtual Event and it is free for any Sister who is a member of our Women of Providence in Collaboration. It is also open to all WPC Associates for a minimal fee. See our website for the full registration packet of materials. …
In this memorable year of 2020 the Women of Providence celebrate their 40th anniversary as an organization! The two founding members began their dreaming in the late 1970s. Sisters of Providence Michelle Holland, from Spokane, WA., and Ruth McGoldrick, from Holyoke, MA., met one another at a board meeting of the National Sisters Vocation Conference. They each remembered how thrilled…
At the end of the Providence Event in June, that has since been cancelled due to Covid 19, there was to be a Gathering of the Sisters under 55 on that last Sunday afternoon. I know that the Board and I were both really happy that our younger, newer members would have the opportunity to gather together and form relationships…
The Providence Event, entitled “Providence ~ Where Justice and Radical Hope Meet!” originally planned by the Women of Providence in Collaboration to take place June 12-14, 2020 at the Kearns Spirituality Center in Allison Park, Pennsylvania, has been rescheduled for February of 2021. The members of the WPC Governing Board also have decided to recreate the event in a new…
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…
This Special Issue of Collaboration highlights our wonderful Providence Event, June 15-17, 2018 in Allison Park, PA. The Sisters of Divine Providence welcomed us to their lovely campus and particularly to Kearns Spirituality Center where the conference was held. Over 100 attendees enjoyed the presentations by our keynote speaker, Megan McKenna. She helped us all explore the message of peace in…
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…