In May the Sisters of Providence from Montreal and their four provinces had their first international virtual experience with their Providence Associates. The complete theme of this gathering was: “Bearers of the Providence Flame in our International, Intercultural, Intergenerational and Interdependent World.” At that meeting Sr. Karin Dufault, the Congregational Leader, gave a presentation on the history of the four …
The Congregational Leadership Team was invited to consider applying for participation in a program called Engaging our Diversity through Interculturality. We applied and were accepted. The program is in workshop style and will be held at the UISG facilities in Rome over the last two weeks in January, 2019. The purpose of the program is to assist a congregation in…
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…