Sister Muriel Gallagher

Jun 8, 2013 | Obituaries

Alice Bernadette Gallagher was the third child born into a family of four girls and five boys. Her mother, Mary Alberta O’Toole, a Nova Scotian, met her future husband, Fergal Aloysius Gallagher, while teaching in Yorkton, Sask. It was on the Gallagher farm seven and...

3rd World Canada youth drum up support for change

May 3, 2013 | Integrity of Creation and Climate Change, Justice

Youth drum group from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation (K.I.) BY BRIDGET DOHERTY Last fall, the Sisters of Providence, the Rotary Club of Cataraqui, Kingston, along with a host of organizations and caring citizens, welcomed the 3rd World Canada Tour. The tour...

‘I just can’t figure out why our boys had to go through that’

May 3, 2013 | Peace

BY JAMIE SWIFT   Those 13 words speak volumes about the why of war. Particularly since they were uttered at a 1936 Vimy Ridge Pilgrimage by Canada’s first Silver Cross Mother. Charlotte Susan Wood was speaking to King Edward VIII as they gazed across the former...

Renewal and Celebration: Learning From St. Vincent de Paul

May 3, 2013 | Associates News

Providence Associates began a two-year formation process in September with the theme of renewal and celebration.  BY SISTER IRENE WILSON The process uses the method of Ignatian contemplation, praying to know Jesus better in order to love him more and follow him more...

Keeping Contact

May 3, 2013 | Associates News

As part of the two-year formation process, Associate program co-directors Barbara Baker and Sister Irene Wilson have been traveling to the Associates across Canada.  In late October they visited Camrose and led a process of Ignatian contemplation. An outcome of the...