Fall Gathering: letting go through contemplation

Fall Gathering: letting go through contemplation

Marie Larkin (right) talking with Sister Gayle Desarmia. BY SISTER SHEILA LANGTON Thirty-nine Sisters of Providence assembled at Providence Spirituality Centre for their annual Fall Gathering from 9:00 a.m., September 21 until 5:00 p.m. on September 23. This was an...
Sister Anna Moran

Sister Anna Moran

Anna Catherine Moran was born on June 19, 1916 in Maynooth, Ontario, the fifth child of nine children born to Frances Anne Golden and John Victor Moran. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a miner in Northern Ontario until the early 1920s when he and a partner...

Providence Associates AGEM

The major event in October was the AGM and the AGEM with Sister Frances O’Brien leading us through a process off Evolving Governance. The sisters are very supportive and encouraging as we begin to look at how we will manage an autonomous life bringing the Charism,...
Clementina Torres Rodriguez, Providence Associate

Clementina Torres Rodriguez, Providence Associate

On Wednesday, September 27th, the feast of St. Vincent de Paul, our dearest Associate Clementina Torres Rodriguez left to go to Our Father in heaven.  The Sisters that got to know Clementina, have fond memories of her and the many ways she lived the Associate Mission...
Teaching in Batawa

Teaching in Batawa

Farewell for Sisters in Batawa in June 1975. BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST Batawa was established as a factory town by the Bata Shoe Company in 1939. Initially the children of Batawa attended public school in nearby Frankford. Father Dostol, s.j., the parish...