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Providence Associates

...Providence Associate Lori Strawn Wichita, Kansas “My purposeful connection with the Sisters of Providence has renewed my soul, deepened my spiritual connection and stirred hope for the future.” Providence Associate Tara Lane West Terre Haute, Indiana Who are the PAs? What do we do? As Providence Associates, we strive to live in our individual lives the Sisters of Providence vision of helping to create a more just and hope-filled world through prayer, education, service and advocacy. Learn more about us...

HOPE Magazine

HOPE is a newsmagazine created by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. It extends the energy and power of Providence by sharing information about the mission, spirituality and ministries of the Sisters of Providence. It is published three times a year. Read the digital version of HOPE magazine here. Subscribe to receive notifications of new content below! To receive a print subscription to HOPE, sign up with our form. Your opinion matters! We’re conducting a survey to gather your...

HOPE Winter 2026

Read or download HOPE Magazine: HOPE Winter 2026 What would you love to see in HOPE Magazine? Your opinion matters! We’re conducting a survey to gather your ideas for HOPE Magazine. Please take a few moments to complete our survey and tell us what you’d like to see in upcoming issues. HOPE Magazine survey As seen in HOPE: Providential Connections: Sisters Abroad The world has changed this century thanks to global improvements in communication. Consecrated religious women are thinking forward...

HOPE Summer 2026: Annual Report

Read or download HOPE Magazine HOPE Summer 2026: Annual Report What would you love to see in HOPE Magazine? Your opinion matters! We’re conducting a survey to gather your ideas for HOPE Magazine. Please take a few moments to complete our survey and tell us what you’d like to see in upcoming issues. HOPE Magazine survey As seen in HOPE: Ready When Called: Walking with God Sisters of Providence reflect on death with faith. Embracing uncertainty, they let go of independence, accept...

Providence Associate Beverly Adams: How it Started

...always brought that beacon of hope. She provided essential support to help strengthen our community. Her involvement, way back then, was a lived expression that Black Lives Matter. Her goals were always love, mercy, justice and hope for African Americans. Providence Associate Beverly Adams during a Providence Associate gathering at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Providential Love Sadly in 2007, St. Angela Parish closed. I retired that year and wanted to attend St. Giles Parish because it was close to my house. I...

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Need some HOPE? Look no further! Fill out the form below to receive HOPE, the newsmagazine of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. HOPE extends the energy and power of Providence by sharing information about the mission, spirituality and ministries of the Sisters of Providence. We would be happy to send you a copy three times a year. Would you prefer to read HOPE online? Read articles and sign up for email notifications for new issues here. Fill out...

Being ‘Stickered’

...have a special message on the back of a label; my label last Saturday was the word ‘GORGEOUS,’ so I looked out at the autumn colored trees and whispered: ‘You are gorgeous; thank you for being you.’” On the opposite end of the question is Sister Janice Smith, “NO! I don’t look forward to being stickered. I am always so afraid that I will forget to go get them that it generally is another stressor to me. But it does help...

White Violet Center earns ‘Real Organic Project’ designation

...of enforcement of some vital USDA Organic standards to protect soil health and animal welfare, organic farmers rallied together to fight to protect the integrity of the organic label. This is what originally motivated WVC Farm Manager John-Michael Elmore to apply for this certification. “We (WVC) are already certified organic, so this became an extension of that. USDA organic certification is getting manipulated by large agri-businesses, and doesn’t fully represent the original intent of the organic movement,” John-Michael said. “While it’s still an important regulatory standard,...

Season of Creation 2022: Fair Trade and Climate Change

Note: We are celebrating the Season of Creation (Sept. 1, World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation through Oct. 4, the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi). The Sisters of Providence Climate Change Task Force will share 10 blogs throughout this time. We hope you enjoy them. Fair Trade and Environmental Sustainability: We Can’t Have One Without The Other Fair Trade and Environmental Sustainability advocates have the same goal: Work toward a safer environment for workers and protect...

20 Years Ago: A Canonization

...I reviewed that two-page document in preparation for writing this article and my first reaction was “Wow.” The document was replete with hopes, challenges, expectations, desires, hoped-for commitments, inspiration and resolve. The Outcome The review left me wondering, “So, how did we do? Did the effects play out in these past 20 years?” Of course, I can only speak to results that are tangible, that are verifiable, and have no way of knowing how hearts or minds or spirits have...

Self-Care During Difficult Times

...deep hope in you and also help you to discover more fully what grounds and cultivates that hope for you. Hope, I find, is not an easy virtue. It is a scrappy virtue. One writer describes hope as the fuel we need to continue forward … Hope is a choice, a verb an action we can pursue. And hope is hard won. I am not talking about some sweet softness in a world without troubles. We need hope for hard times and for...