by Michael Hammond | Apr 22, 2015 | Vocation Stories
When I think of my call to religious life, I must admit that the process I went through to make my decision falls far short of the standards for discernment that we know today. Nevertheless, Providence was undergirding all the mundane experiences in my decision to...
by Michael Hammond | Apr 21, 2015 | Vocation Stories
I grew up on a farm in southern Saskatchewan in a family of eleven children. Prayers were an important part of our daily lives. Sunday Mass, the rosary, prayers at meals and even the Way of the Cross during Lent were a regular thing. During the summer we went to...
by Michael Hammond | Apr 15, 2015 | Providence Flashbacks
Sr. M. Melanie Coligan in the “Peak” and the “Round” headdress. BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST Excerpt from Congregational Annals of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul April 15, 1954 – Holy Thursday. At last the day appointed for changing our...
by Michael Hammond | Apr 7, 2015 | Archives News
Members of the Kingston branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society Kingston undertook the significant job of transcribing the Congregation’s records of the home children. Here, OGS representatives present Sisters of Providence archivist Veronica Steinburg (left) with...
by Michael Hammond | Mar 31, 2015 | Associates News
The Associates formation program continued in March with a day focused on the Kingston founders of the Congregation. BY SISTER IRENE WILSON These founders and the issues of the day were dramatized for the gathering. Kingston Bishop Horan was performed by Sr. Catherine...
