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20/05/21

Pentecost 2021 – Message from Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle

Send forth your spirit and renew the face of the Earth (Ps. 104) Greetings and blessings on the Feast of Pentecost, As Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle, focused on the work of reconciliation between Indigenous and all Canadians, we want to renew and celebrate the Spirit of Pentecost. Still relatively new as a coalition we […]

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14/05/21

Émilie Gamelin and the prisoners

Blessed Emilie Tavernier-Gamelin visited many Patriots in the Pied-du-Courant prison in Montreal, hence her nickname of “Angel of the Political Prisoners”. She brought them food, spiritual comfort, and often secretly sent correspondence to their families and friends. Was it Emilie who sent this letter? This original document, preserved in the archives of the Community, was […]

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14/05/21

Providence Associates from Caleta Olivia and the Pandemic

The Providence Associates of Caleta Olivia, Santa Cruz, Argentina, want to reach out to you and tell you how we are managing during these pandemic times. First of all, we thank our Provident God because we, the Associates are mostly well, even though there have been some positive cases of COVID-19 among our families. We […]

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11/05/21

Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle – Statement on Including UNDRIP in Canadian Law

Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle appreciates the government’s action in introducing a bill to include the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in Canadian law. We recognize this as an important step towards a framework for working together with Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle is a Catholic coalition of Indigenous […]

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29/04/21

In Emilie’s footsteps

I remember my first Christmas party celebrated in the community of Saint Veronique: there was an exchange of gifts, as we do every year, and I asked the person who had drawn my name not to buy me a gift, but rather to give me some money to make a small gift to some prisoners. […]

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15/04/21

Bernarda Morin Center Bulletin

A new printed issue of the traditional Bulletin of the Bernarda Morin Centre began to be distributed in March in the Bernarda Morin Province and its works (Chile and Argentina). Since its beginning in 1996, its objective has been to make known the life and work of our foundress in Chile, Mother Bernarda Morin, a […]

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13/04/21

Technology has helped me in this time of pandemic.

My story with the quarantine in my Parish San Bartolomé As a Sister of Providence in Arcatao, Chalatenango, El Salvador, technology has been a much-needed tool that I have had to learn in order to bring God’s message to the people of the communities during the pandemic. It seemed that many churches had been taken […]

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19/03/21

Sisters of Providence live our mission in new ways during the pandemic

As Sisters of Providence, we are challenged during the pandemic to live our mission in new and unexpected ways as an international, intercultural, intergenerational and interdependent congregation. Our mission, “to proclaim Providence as the loving presence of God, active in us and through us, watchful over the created universe, and attentive to the needs of […]

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04/01/21

From Small Town to International Spiritual Leader: An unexpected life journey

No one expected the athletic schoolgirl from Yakima, Washington, to become an international leader — especially not after she took vows as a Catholic sister. And yet, 60 years later, Sister Karin Dufault now leads the worldwide Sisters of Providence community as congregational leader from the organization’s International Center in Montreal, Quebec. And, she believes […]

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