Ketteler Day, Mother Marie Day 2024

Dear Sisters and Associates,

Another Founders’ day is upon us and I find myself pondering just what it is that Bishop Ketteler and Mother Marie might want to tell us. Our Congregation, that grew from a small group of German peasant women, sent Sisters beyond the borders of Germany. In those years the Congregation grew and expanded to the United States, to Puerto Rico, to Peru and South Korea. We are now an international, intercultural, and intergenerational community of women who still are being called to live the charism of Providence in our day and time in history. When I think of all the lives we touch, the ministries we do, the hopes we embrace, it reminds me of a tapestry.

The image of a tapestry speaks to me of a cloth that is created by weaving different colored threads together into one strong cloth. In the lifetime of our Congregation, we have woven threads together of joys and sorrows, triumphs and challenges, loves and losses…all of them shaping who we are as Providence women and men. Each of brings our gifts and goodness to stitch the threads together and create a beautiful design. Over these 173 years it has been a journey filled with varied experiences, both good and difficult, and yet all grace-filled. As we have rooted ourselves in the mystery of Providence and its invitations to us, we have walked the path with open and receptive hearts, trusting that the Spirit would lead us from generation to generation....

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