A high profile social activist joined other vigil-keepers at the weekly silent vigil at Kingston’s City Hall on Friday May 18, 2007. Raised in Kingston, nurse Cathy Crowe specializes in advocacy for the homeless in Canada. She has won fame as a street nurse working...
BY SISTER PEGGY FLANAGAN As I recall, Jesus of Nazareth had a soft spot in his heart for fishermen. Perhaps he still does. Oliver Gerald Doyle, who died on the second of May, was a follower of Jesus, but not just because he loved to go fishing. Oliver also took...
General Superior elect Sr. Pauline Lally spoke during the Mayor’s Task Force on Poverty held in Kingston April 30, 2007. The speech is reprinted here. In the 19th century the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul set about working on behalf of the orphaned, the...
Article reprinted with permission from Kingston This Week. BY LYNN REES LAMBERT Local News – Friday, April 20, 2007 Updated @ 8:21:28 AM The provincial government has made progress on the push to wipe out poverty over the last three years, but it is a long way from...
Organ pipes are removed in early SeptemberAfter 37 years of use, the pipe organ in the Chapel at Providence Motherhouse is being restored. After almost four decades, age is taking a toll on the once rich sounding instrument. The four-month restoration project began in...
Marg Spooner, Director of Music, HeathfieldSudbury was the location of the 2006 Ontario Liturgical Commission Summer School in early August. The conference was unique in that it was a bilingual event, involving 110 musicians from Ontario and one from Newfoundland. The...
Sr. Una Byrne at the Baptism of a Neskantaga First Nation child. The child is in a tikinagan, a traditional cradle board that the mother carries on her back.The smell of smoke these mornings reminds us of the ever-present danger of forest fires in the north. Although...
A sizeable crowd showed up to Memorial Hall on May 24th to take part in an Inter-Faith Gathering to discuss Religious Faiths and the Poor: Call and Response.Those who have faith and do righteous deeds, – they are the best of creatures. Qur’an, 98:7 A sizeable crowd...
Tara Kainer joins the staff at Providence Motherhouse as the executive assistant to the Co-Director of the Justice and Peace OfficeWho knows how we become the people we are? I can’t say for sure what happened to turn my attention to social justice, or why I’m...
When members of the Sisters of Providence leadership team visited Sr. Una Byrne in her ministry, they found that spiritual life in Northern Ontario is anything but frosty. The weather, however, was certainly chilly when Sisters Jeannette Filthaut and Sandra Shannon...
