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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 PodcastGo Forth!
Before going forth translates to a step forward, it’s an opening of the heart. It’s an energetic movement, one that opens us to others in love and…
The Providence PodcastAdam, Eve, and Care of Creation
Humans are made to care for the earth and we are made from the earth. Hear more about the creation story in Genesis and our call to care for the earth in this…
The Providence PodcastLove and Civility
Love and holiness move us beyond civility to something deeper, and that’s a good thing, even if it brings with it a healthy dose of discomfort from time to…
The Providence PodcastChoose Wisely
God calls us to choose wisely, and we can trust that God will help us to decide and will love us through whatever we choose. Sign up for the Decision-Making…
The Providence PodcastBe Light, See Light
God’s call to be bright and salty is not just about our personal growth; in our shining and sharing, can we also be open to the light in other people? God is…
The Providence PodcastBlessed Are the Weak and Foolish
We’re blessed when we continue to build this Kingdom, when we work for this vision that Christ has inspired us to see. That’s our wisdom, and that’s our…
The Providence PodcastLove and Unity
When we listen to each other and honor the Spirit speaking within each person, we may not agree, but we will come to understand each other. When we understand…
The Providence PodcastI Will Make You a Light
What does God want from you? Service? Obedience? Or, is it something more, something more relational, more intimate? You can read the reflection and sign up to…
The Providence PodcastEpiphany: Let's Be Stars!
Like the Magi, we have each other as travel companions. Community at its best stands together beneath the night sky, gazing at signs from God, and following…
The Providence PodcastWhat's Your New Year's Yes?
On this day, which is so often a time of making resolutions, there’s an invitation to consider God’s call for us too — because Mary of Nazareth is not the last…
The Providence PodcastShepherds and Angels
In our Gospel, the shepherds hasten to the manger to behold the Christ child. It’s a beautiful, idyllic scene. However, we can learn a lot if we reflect on…
The Providence PodcastGod, Give Us a Sign!
The birth of the vulnerable, needy Christ child is a profound, important sign that God has given humanity. God became finite and shows us infinite love; God…
The Providence PodcastLet All Creation Rejoice!
Let’s rejoice because the reign of God is near and here, among us and within us and yet to come. Let’s allow ourselves to be moved by the beauty of the earth…
The Providence PodcastWhat's Your Heart’s Longing?
If you were to envision a world in which your deepest desires (for yourself, your community and family, humankind, and creation) were manifested, what would it…
The Providence PodcastCome on! Act right and Wake Up!
Come on, everybody! Let’s act right and wake up! God is inviting you and me into this holy, still, gentle, waiting season of Advent. Let’s open ourselves…
The Providence PodcastChrist the Vulnerable King
Christ is not invisible. Christ is not high and mighty. Christ is all around us, in each person we meet, and within our very selves. So, let’s allow Christ the…
The Providence PodcastAll [Bad] Things Must Come to an End
I find hope in the fact that hard times will come to an end. Nothing is permanent. I wish all the good things would last forever, but one positive aspect of…
The Providence PodcastLove and Endurance
Anyone who’s truly living their vocation, religious, single, and married people, know both love and endurance. And there’s something about sisters who tend to…
The Providence PodcastThe Infinity and Intimacy of God
This reading from the Book of Wisdom can take us pretty deep into the mystery of God and the paradox of God — that God is both infinite and intimate. God holds…
The Providence PodcastWho Are You Before God?
God wants us as we are. No bravado, no chest beating and discarding our own worth. God receives us – all that we are, our past, our present, our brokenness and…
The Providence PodcastI’m Kinda Over Getting Told to Throw My Hands Up in the Air
What an image of leadership – Moses so visibly present on the hill with his hands raised and two of his community members on either side offering support. It…
The Providence PodcastBelonging Wherever We Are
The more that I, and we, live and grow into the fullness of being to which God calls us, the more we belong to God and ourselves. When we belong like that…
The Providence PodcastHow Do You Stir Your Faith into Flame???
Even if we aren’t feeling it and we sort of quiet quit for a minute, God never quiet quits on us — or quiet fire us either. The Holy Spirit will stir things…
The Providence PodcastAfflicting the Comfortable
Prophets comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, and maybe that's what our prophets are doing -- afflicting us until we shift our expectations and…
The Providence PodcastTrust Is in the Small Things
Trust is a risk we take. It can lead to heartbreak, sure, but it also brings about deeper intimacy and connection. When we risk a little vulnerability, we see…
The Providence PodcastIndeed, the Grace of God Has Been Abundant
Does prayer make you more compassionate, thoughtful, understanding of other people? Does it help you to remember God’s love in the past and to experience it in…
The Providence PodcastWe Are Invited -- to Share God's Life
Listen as Sister Fidelis Tracy, CDP reflects on Trinity as community, community that’s open to all. She keeps it real as she shares about her experiences of…
The Providence PodcastOne, but Not the Same
The Holy Spirit is what brings together the most unlikely people and unites us as community, even through our many differences, and helps us to hold that…
The Providence PodcastThe Hope that Belongs to God’s Call
The Feast of the Ascension shows us is that the revelation of Christ in the world, even amidst all of this sorrow, is up to us. The presence of Christ…
The Providence PodcastTroubled Is My Heart's Default Setting
I’m working to not let my heart be troubled or afraid, but even if that’s my default, I don’t have to maintain that setting today. I can modify it. And God is…
The Providence PodcastGod's Dwelling Is with the Human Race
God doesn’t just choose to be with us from afar, but intimately with each of us at every moment, with every breath, with every blink of the eye. With every joy…
The Providence PodcastHow to Hear God's Voice
Jesus says, “My sheep hear my voice; I know them and they follow me.” Have you ever heard Christ speak to you – maybe to console you, to get your attention, to…
The Providence PodcastMission Is a Project
Understanding mission as a project feels helpful, at least to me. Being assigned a project is far less daunting than being sent on a mission. Mission inspires…
The Providence PodcastThe Providence Project
Have you ever had an experience that touched your heart and changed your life? Well, here's one. The Providence Project is a summer service program in Mosses…
The Providence PodcastWay of the Cross for Justice 2022
Blessed Good Friday. This Way of the Cross prayer is a kind of pilgrimage, a way of connecting the suffering of Jesus with the suffering brought about by…
The Providence PodcastA Parade, a Kiss, a Conviction, and a Cross
Palm Sunday and Holy Week may offer us an opportunity to be with our own suffering and joy, hurt and healing, betrayal and forgiveness, loneliness and…
The Providence PodcastAll Things New
As we bear the crosses in our own lives, we may have to dig down deep to find hope, but resurrection is on its way. God makes all things new.
The Providence PodcastGod Loves the Lost
For God, no one is insignificant and everyone is worth finding. No one is beyond reach; no one is irredeemable. The so-called sinners that Jesus hangs out…
The Providence PodcastWhy Do We Suffer?
Brokenness is real, but it is redeemable. As community, we can bring our woundedness together, owning our incompleteness, and drawing near each other. God is…
The Providence PodcastWe Can’t Stay on the Mountaintop
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 PodcastTempted
The call I hear is to try and recognize what leads me: is it the Spirit of God or something else? If it’s the Spirit, then I am on the way toward God and…
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 PodcastA Good Measure, Packed Together, Shaken Down, and Overflowing
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 PodcastBlessings and Woes
God calls us to keep moving toward trust in God and relationship with God. Sometimes we do that when we notice our blessings, and sometimes we even grow…
The Providence PodcastThe Long, Slow Work of Fishing
Our mission as Christians is not about success and numbers. It’s about following Christ. That’s not usually easy. On the other hand, discipleship promises…
The Providence PodcastGod's Will, Discernment, and . . . Other People
Jeremiah and Jesus are pretty clear about God's will for them, but it can be harder for us to figure that out. How do we discern God's call for us, and what do…
The Providence PodcastCaring for the Body of Christ
God has cared for us by designing our bodies in such a way that our most vulnerable body parts are protected; could we care for the Body of Christ in the same…
The Providence PodcastDifferent Gifts, Same Spirit
This Sunday's reading from First Corinthians tells us that "there are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit," and that sounds very nice…
The Providence PodcastBeing God's Beloved
Each time the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord comes around, we hear this invitation to see ourselves mirrored in Christ, in all of Christ’s belovedness. Each…
The Providence PodcastFeast of the Epiphany: Let's Be Stars
Like the Magi, we have each other as travel companions, standing together beneath the night sky, gazing at signs from God, and following where they lead. Let’s…
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
4th Sunday of Advent: Prophets don’t predict the future. They speak a word of hope. God keeps making promises, and when those are fulfilled, God makes more…
The Providence PodcastJoy, Peace, and Anxiety
God is near, and the peace of God will guard us, even when we feel anxious. Gaudete Sunday, 2021 Phil 4:4-7
The Providence PodcastThe Peace of Justice
Our prophet’s vision is not a false peace, but a genuine end to the oppression that held people captive, a real gathering of community, and a life of peace and…
The Providence PodcastHope in God’s Promises
In this season of hope, God promises to be with us, and this promise is being fulfilled right now.
The Providence PodcastChrist and the Kingdom
As we elevate this simple but divine man from Galilee, I hope we don’t lose sight of the point he’s trying to make in this Gospel – that we belong to Christ…
The Providence PodcastWhy We Love Being Sisters!
Welcome to National Vocation Awareness Week. We can think about our vocation as our call from God to love in the world. God calls each of us as Christians to…
The Providence Podcast¡Por qué nos encanta ser hermanas! (el pódcast en español)
Escuche cómo Hermana Paula Gohs y Hermana Kay describen su amor por la comunidad, la oración y la misión. ¿Quiere aprender más sobre cómo Dios podría estar…
The Providence PodcastWhat’s Your Two Cents?
Jesus uses the meager contribution of a poor widow to show what it looks like to give out of your whole livelihood. How are you living into this? How is God…
The Providence PodcastChristian Self-Care
In this culture that glorifies busyness to the point of burnout, how do we follow God's commandments to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength?…