News

The 175th anniversary of the founding of the Sisters of Providence closing Mass

“Today our hearts rejoice for the choice of God’s love!” Last March 29, the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Sisters of Providence solemn closing Mass was held at the Motherhouse Chapel. Many invitees from across the world and Canada participated in the Eucharistic celebration. There were Sisters of Providence, Providence Associates and collaborators […]

International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression – 4 June

We invite you to reflection with these words: Who will save the children? by Randy Stonehill Cry for all the innocent ones Born into a world That’s lost its heart For those who never Learn to dream Because their hope is crushed Before they can start And we shake our fists At the air And […]

International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day, March 8, 2019 The Theme: Respect, Demonstrate for It! The International Women’s Day is the story of ordinary women who made history. It is rooted in the centuries-long struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. It appeared in the context of social movements at the turn […]

World Water Day

The right to water means that everyone, without discrimination, has the right to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic use which includes water for drinking, for personal sanitation, for washing clothes, for food preparation, and for personal and household hygiene. This year the theme for World Water Day 2019 […]

Travel to the World Youth Day

January 22-27, 2019 On Thursday, January 11, I entered into a new experience which Providence was giving to me through the José Simeón Cañas University of Central America (UCA). This was the opportunity to coordinate a group of young people from Korea, Spain and El Salvador who were participating in the MAG+S gathering organized by […]

“The abuse of Children is wrong anywhere and anytime: this point is not negotiable.”

Prayer Vigil “Together against Human Trafficking!”

Tribute to Sister Marie-Rose St-Amant, SP

By Sr. Annette Aspirot, SP 1st part Sister Marie-Rose St-Amant was born on September 22, 1933, in Saint-Tite, Quebec, the second child in a family of twelve. Her religious vocation was nourished under the influence of religious teachers, especially during her high school years with the Sisters of Providence. She entered the postulate on November […]

Alice St. Hilaire, SP (Sister Mary Georgetta)

Sister Alice St. Hilaire was a warm, gracious, gentle woman of Providence whose ministry was the joyful expression of a commitment to religious community service, the enthusiastic love for teaching, and the willing embrace of a deeply spiritual life shared with others. She touched many lives during the course of her seventy years as a […]

The Table of the King over the years.

(An experience lived on the 9th floor of the Infirmary in the year 2000, and commented by Sister Annette Aspirot, SP, responsible for the Infirmary Sector at the time) Wherever we are, unbeknownst to us most of the time, history is written. History is transmitted orally or in books. Facts are reminisced, facts are lost, […]