BY ANN BONIFERRO Throughout the month of April, students in each of the 39 schools of the Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board were asked to show mercy by standing in solidarity with those who experience injustice. They did that by holding vigils and...
In April, every school in the Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board held some version of a social justice vigil – honouring the 20 years of the Friday noon vigil undertaken by the Sisters of Providence with many others from the community.These actions...
2011: To mark their 150th anniversary, the Sisters of Providence rented a bus to bring Sisters, Associates, staff, partners and special guests together for a vigil. A provincial election was underway. With a federal election campaign taking place, those attending the...
It was fitting that the weather was so beautiful on September 17 and 18 when, after 20 years of fidelity, the silent vigil in solidarity with the poor and so many others, came to an end. On the Thursday evening, hundreds gathered outside Kingston City Hall where the...
1995: Two Sisters hold up a sign they had just made at the planning meeting for the first vigilBY SISTER SHIRLEY MORRIS, SP As a Sister of Providence, I would like to express my gratitude to the many vigil keepers ("vigilantes!") who participated and supported the...
Vigil from around 2001 with the since-deceased Sr. Mary Hamilton sitting down on the job.BY JAMIE SWIFT And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 “We’ve stood in all kinds of weather. Rain and snow....
Today the #FridayVigil vigil keepers arrived to find a long line of police vans in front of Kingston city hall. Turns out they were police from Toronto, OPP, Halton and other places, all acting as an escort for the Pan Am Games flame that is touring the region What...
Vigil keeper Lynda Dowdle, in red, is surrounded by four Sisters of Providence at an August vigil. From left, Ellen Murray, SP; Lynda Dowdle; Una Byrne, SP; sitting, Peggy Flanagan, SP; and Catherine Cannon, SP.BY UNA BYRNE, SP For 19 years, the Sisters of Providence...
To mark the 18th anniversary of the Sisters of Providence's silent vigil held over noon hour on Fridays, Sisters and friends created a display of 6000 paper dolls to represent the 6000 children who live in poverty in the greater Kingston area. Acknowledgements for the...
The Rt. Rev. Michael Oulton had to raise his voice above the hum of traffic in front of City Hall. But most of the 150 supporters gathered to mark the sixteenth anniversary of our Silent Vigil could hear Kingston’s new Anglican Bishop as he led us in prayer.150 people...
