Apr 23, 2015 | Vocation Stories
A favourite question people have for a Sister is, “Why did you become a nun?” For many years I would go blank when anyone asked me that. I didn’t know how to answer. It is a mystery to me. How did such an ordinary and very young person as I was, know that I had a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
