Choose Wisely Podcast Episode
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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.
Welcome to the Providence Podcast from the Sisters of Divine Providence! 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 the Catholic tradition and open to seekers of all kinds, Providence Podcast is for people who love their faith, wrestle with their faith, are finding their way back to faith, or simply have questions.
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Be Light, See Light Podcast Episode
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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 calling us to shine and to lift up others’ light too. There’s plenty of room on the lampstand for all of us.
Read MoreBlessed Are the Weak and Foolish Podcast Episode
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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 strength, and that’s our blessing. Blessed are we who are weak and foolish, we who believe the Kingdom of God is possible.
Read MoreLove and Unity Podcast Episode
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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 each other, we remember our common purpose, which is to share the Gospel. Our diversity is beautiful — and a gift. Our call is to love, and in our love we’ll find our unity.
Read MoreI Will Make You a Light Podcast Episode
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What does God want from you? Service? Obedience? Or, is it something more, something more relational, more intimate?
Read MoreWhat's Your New Year's Yes? Podcast Episode
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New Year's Day is so often a time of setting goals, but there’s also an invitation to consider God’s call for us — because Mary of Nazareth is not the last person God invited to do a thing, and God is calling forth a courageous yes in us too. God has continued to call people to bring about God’s kingdom, which upends corrupt power and uplifts the vulnerable, and God is calling us to this great work too. What will your yes be?
Read MoreShepherds and Angels Podcast Episode
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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 this scene more deeply, making real the image we often see on Christmas cards. How did those shepherds respond to the invitation to go and see the Christ, and how are we called to respond this Christmas as well?
Read MoreGod, Give Us a Sign! Podcast Episode
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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 became needy and shows us God’s Providence; God became poor and shows us abundance.
Read MoreLet All Creation Rejoice! Podcast Episode
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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 and to rejoice with it.
Read MoreCome on! Act right and Wake Up! Podcast Episode
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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, seeking God in all things because God wants to be found.
Read MoreChrist the Vulnerable King Podcast Episode
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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 vulnerable king to walk closely with us, and when Christ invites each of us into his kingdom, I hope we say yes.
Read MoreAll [Bad] Things Must Come to an End Podcast Episode
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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 change is that it also brings hard things to a close. God is very deeply with us even as we move through the worst kind of suffering, and resurrection comes and brings hope too.
Read MoreTroubled Is My Heart's Default Setting Podcast Episode
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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 always at work in me, rewriting the code that I can’t even decipher and changing my settings from troubled to peace.
Read MoreThe Providence Project Podcast Episode
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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, Alabama. Young adult volunteers live together in community with Sisters of Divine Providence and work with children in an educational summer camp. We’ll build in time for community, prayer, and, of course, fun! We’ll also visit some of the historical sites in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama to learn more about the civil rights movement and racial justice in our own time. This podcast features a conversation about what the Providence Project entails and what to expect.
Read MoreA Parade, a Kiss, a Conviction, and a Cross Podcast Episode
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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 connection. As we move through these sacred days, we may see how, as we enter into the Passion of Jesus, Christ has entered into our own passion too, this life we’re living, day by day and year by year.
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