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The Providence Podcast
Providence Podcast, from the Sisters of Divine Providence, is a welcoming space where faith meets real life. Each week, women bring their voices and perspectives to scripture, exploring how ancient stories speak to the questions, joys, struggles, relationships, and hopes of our lives today. Through scripture reflection, contemplative practices, and honest conversations, we explore Catholic faith and spirituality, justice, belonging, and the places where God meets us in ordinary life. Rooted in…
Episodes
The Providence PodcastWhy Do We Exult in the Cross?
As we commemorate the Feast of the Exaltation of the HolyCross, we might wonder why we celebrate the cross, a symbol of suffering and death. I don’t know about…
The Providence PodcastWhat's Your Plan, Disciple?
It seems like Jesus is asking us to make a strategy around our discipleship, planning like we would do if we were doing a building project. But how do you plan…
The Providence PodcastTransformation Inside and Out, Summer
Jesus is calling us to alignment between our attitudes and our actions, an authentic living out of our faith. He's interested in transforming the whole of us…
The Providence PodcastGod's Big Wasteful Love, Summer Episode
What if we stopped worrying about worthiness? God, with great pleasure, wastes God’s big, crazy love on us, like a giant waterfall. What if we were to simply…
The Providence PodcastBe Opened, Summer Episode
We encounter Jesus as he heals a deaf person with the words, “Be opened.” His invitation to openness shows that the problem isn’t an illness that can be cured…
The Providence PodcastSurviving the Time of Great Distress, Summer Episode
God cared for the first Christians in their time of distress, and God is caring for us too. We, too, will navigate through it, and as we’re dealing with it…
The Providence PodcastAll Things Are Possible with God, Summer Episode
All things are possible with God, and people can change if we want to. If we’re open, we can grow into the people God calls us to be. It’s not something we can…
The Providence PodcastGod's Why, Summer Episode
There’s a lot going on in this Gospel, and the quick pace makes it seem like Jesus’s life is an action-packed adventure with lots of people who need help. Are…
The Providence PodcastTo Whom Shall We Go? Summer Episode
Whether we stay or go, God is still with us. Christ accompanies us, and we accompany Christ in the company of each other. Yes, sometimes it’s hard. Sometimes…
The Providence PodcastDifferent Gifts, Same Spirit, Summer Episode
“There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit.” We tend to use this reading from First Corinthians to affirm community and unity in…
The Providence PodcastI Have Finished the Race
In our Second Reading, Paul reflects back over his life, noting with satisfaction that he has finished the race faithfully. When you look back over your life…
The Providence PodcastWhat Kind of Bread Are You Eating?
The Feast of Corpus Christi may be a good time to reflect on what we are consuming. Is what we’re eating the lift-giving bread of faith and hope? Are we…
The Providence PodcastCome with Me
As we play, rest, work hard, suffer, and hope, God is present, caring for us with deep tenderness. God comes with us, and we accompany each other too. Like the…
The Providence PodcastThe Holy Ghost Will Never Ghost Us
Happy Pentecost -- this feast of wind and flame and each one hearing the Good News proclaimed uniquely, as only we can hear it. The Spirit is always with us…
The Providence PodcastThat We All May Be One
When we’re at our best, noticing and appreciating each other’s gifts, and our own gifts too, our community is better for it. Loving the diversity of gifts we…
The Providence PodcastDo Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled or Afraid
In our Gospel reading, Jesus offers his disciples peace and tells them, “Do not let your heart be troubled or afraid.” That sounds nice, but can people really…
The Providence PodcastHow Do We Love One Another?
God’s call to us is clear; we are to love one another. But what does that look like as we each try to follow that call in our lives? by Sister Leslie Keener…
The Providence PodcastSurviving the Time of Great Distress
God cared for the first Christians in their time of distress, and God is caring for us too. We, too, will navigate through it, and as we’re dealing with it…
The Providence Podcast"Do You Love Me? Follow Me."
Our times are uncertain and institutions are deconstructing, and we don’t know what’s going to happen, but God has called us into mission. Christ is still…
The Providence PodcastFear, Doubt, and Transformation
I’ve heard it said that questioning is okay but doubting is wrong, but I think doubting is okay too. God doesn’t seem to mind when we doubt. In fact, doubt can…
The Providence PodcastDarkness and Light, an Easter Reflection
Darkness and light are neither good nor bad; they’re both parts of the whole. We can’t consider suffering apart from resurrection, and we can only enter into…
The Providence PodcastGod Has Not Abandoned Us
Maybe we, too, need to move through this time of disintegration. As things unravel and one struggle after another emerges, it can feel disconcerting and…
The Providence PodcastGod Makes All Things New
Not only does transformation always come, whether I want it to or not, but God’s love is in that movement, whether I see it or not. And God invites me to see…
The Providence PodcastGod's Big Wasteful Love
What if we stopped worrying about worthiness? God, with great pleasure, wastes God’s big, crazy love on us, like a giant waterfall. What if we were to simply…
The Providence PodcastHow Shall We Serve?
Welcome to a special episode of the Providence Podcast. Instead of our usual Scripture reflection, we’ll be doing an interview about engagement, service, and…
The Providence PodcastWe Can't Stay on the Mountain
We stay open to what comes, enjoying the heights, living into the depths, and being present to where God is moment by moment, even when the ground is just . …
The Providence PodcastBe with Us, God
The story of Jesus’s temptation in the desert is an affirmation of God’s presence with him – and with us. How do you trust that God is with you, especially…
The Providence PodcastGood Fruit, Bad Fruit
We each have the ability to produce good fruit, to act out of the goodness – the God-ness – inside of us, but we also have it in us to act out of what’s not of…
The Providence PodcastGod Is Good
We are lavishly loved and blessed. What we put out into the world may have a cause and effect dynamic, or it may not. However, the more good we do, the more we…
The Providence PodcastBlessed
Living into the Kingdom of God does not bring wealth and glory, which Christ confirms in the Beatitudes. However, working toward this Kingdom has its own…
The Providence PodcastFishing for People
Jesus says, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.” What does it mean to fish for people? And, looking at your own spiritual life, what…
The Providence PodcastAmazing
What is your capacity to be amazed by God? And after you’ve had a moving spiritual experience, and things fade back to ordinariness – what then? by Sister…
The Providence PodcastThe Spirit of God Is Upon Me
As Jesus proclaims the word of God to the people of his hometown, the scripture he reads is fulfilled in their hearing — but they don’t want to hear it. How…
The Providence PodcastDifferent Gifts, Same Spirit
“There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit.” We tend to use this reading from First Corinthians to affirm community and unity in…
The Providence PodcastYou Are God's Beloved
Why is it easier to believe in our brokenness than our belovedness? Doubts and fears are part of the human experience, but so is being loved. How do we…
The Providence PodcastRise Up! An Epiphany Reflection
What a promising proclamation: Our light has come! Emmanuel is with us! Rise up from any hopelessness, anxiety, despair, from anything that binds you. Rise up!…
The Providence PodcastReal Families, Holy Families
None of our families is ideal, and each of them is holy. Our broken and imperfect families, our grieving families, our struggling families are holy in our…
The Providence PodcastBlessed Are We Who Believe
Prophets don’t predict the future. They speak a word of hope; they speak for God. God keeps making promises, and when those are fulfilled, God makes more…
The Providence PodcastRejoice!
Rejoicing may not be on the surface of our consciousness. Some days we may have to dig down into ourselves to find it, but the Spirit guides us. It is for the…
The Providence PodcastFinding the Way Home
What does it mean to be at home? What memories do you have of being home, both pleasant and difficult? What does it mean to come home to yourself? Listen as…
The Providence PodcastHope
The kind of hope that comes from God reassures us of God’s love and presence, both in the future and right now, in this moment, in this first week of Advent…
The Providence PodcastChrist and the Kingdom
What does it mean to belong to God’s kingdom, this realm not of this world? All we have to do to belong is listen and recognize the truth. We don’t have to…
The Providence PodcastThe World Might Be Ending, but It’s Probably Not
Maybe the world is ending, but it probably isn’t. Maybe things are worse now, but they probably aren’t. Or, if they are, the world will likely right itself, or…
The Providence PodcastWe Keep Showing Up; We Give What We Have
So, we keep showing up. We trust that our two cents are enough. Even when we don’t see much effect from our efforts, we keep showing up because God provides us…
The Providence PodcastSpiritual Self-Care
In this culture in which everything is so intense and busy, how do we follow God's commandments to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength? And…
The Providence PodcastWhat Do You Want Me to Do for You?
This Sunday, we get to spend some time with Bartimaeus. What can we learn from this disciple’s encounter with Jesus, and how would you answer Jesus’s question…
The Providence PodcastGod With Us, Not Over Us
God who is almighty does not hold power over us but seeks to be deeply with us. How do we open ourselves to God who wants to be close to us? And how do we…
The Providence PodcastAll Things Are Possible with God
All things are possible with God, and people can change if we want to. If we’re open, we can grow into the people God calls us to be. It’s not something we can…
The Providence PodcastIt's Not Good for Us to Be Alone
Each of us is a vulnerable, awkward human in need of connection and relationship. When things are good, it’s easy to feel self-sufficient, but that’s not real…
The Providence PodcastWhoever's Not Against Us Is For Us
Jesus uses strong words, but his message is simple: limit the things that make gospel living harder, have holy boundaries, and when it comes to knowing who’s…
The Providence PodcastDisciple Like a Child
There’s no getting ahead in the Christian life. Each of us is dependent, called to disciple like a child, open to life as it unfolds and trusting that God is…
The Providence PodcastWho Do You Say I Am?
Jesus asks his disciples, “Who do you say I am?” and it’s clear that he wants them to know him for who he is. There’s something about all of us that wants to…
The Providence PodcastBe Opened
This week we encounter Jesus as he heals a deaf person with the words, “Be opened.” His invitation to openness shows that the problem isn’t an illness that can…
The Providence PodcastTransformation, Inside and Out
Jesus is calling us to alignment between our attitudes and our actions, an authentic living out of our faith. He's interested in transforming the whole of us…
The Providence PodcastTo Whom Shall We Go?
Whether we stay or go, God is still with us. Christ accompanies us, and we accompany Christ in the company of each other. Yes, sometimes it’s hard. Sometimes…
The Providence PodcastSeen, Known, and Loved, Summer Series
May we journey up to the mountaintop with Jesus and his companions and encounter God too. As Jesus revealed the fullness of who he is, may we reveal the…
The Providence PodcastWorthy of the Call, Summer Series
What if instead of wondering if someone is worthy, we focus on being humble, knowing that we’re not perfect either? What if we live with patience, trusting…
The Providence PodcastWhat We Shall Be, Summer Series
I can’t predict the future, but if I respond wholeheartedly to life’s events, both good and challenging, I’ll continue to grow into the person God created me…
The Providence PodcastWhat Are You Looking For? Summer Series
In your heart of hearts, what do you desire? What do you want? Figure out what you desire in the depths of your heart, and you know God’s call. By Sister…
The Providence PodcastIs There a Perfect Community? Summer Series
Community is one of the best parts of our lives but also one of the hardest parts. Why is that? And if relationships are so hard, why do we keep persevering in…