Sisters of St. Francis of the Providence of God

Thank you to the Sisters witnessing to the love of Christ and answering the call to serve those seeking refuge from violence, unreset, and other extreme hardships.

Peace and Every Good! Paz e Bem! We are grateful to all who offered prayers for our 23rd General Chapter meeting in Brazil. We are blessed to announce our newly elected General Council, who will begin their term on July 1, 2021: General Minister Sister Rute Almeida Guimarães, Assistant General Minister Sister Adriana Duarte, Sister Janet Gardner, Sister Joanice dos Santos, and Sister Neide Teixeira. Thank you, Sisters, for answering the call to leadership! We also would... like to take a moment to thank our outgoing General Council members for their faithful leadership and service during one of the most challenging times of our 99 years as Sisters of St. Francis of the Providence of God: General Minister Sister Joanne Brazinski, Assistant General Minister Sister Maria José da Conceição, and Sister Maria Goretti Avanzi. (Sisters Rute and Janet also served on this council). Pictured: Sisters Janet, Joanice, Neide, Rute, Joanne, Maria Goretti, Maria José, and Adriana.

We are grateful for YOU! Our latest e-news illuminates how your prayers and support are vital as our Sisters faithfully embrace the blessings and challenges of age.

Wishing you blessings and peace this Mother’s Day! We celebrate and give thanks for all blessed with a mother’s heart who God has filled with unconditional, absolute, and profound love. Please join us as we remember all mothers in prayer, both living and deceased. We also continue to lift up in prayer mothers and families struggling with poverty, illness, and other hardships. We recognize that this time is especially challenging for those unable to be with their mothers or children, as well as those whose mother or child is not present in their lives due to death, abandonment, or other reasons. Please know you are also lovingly remembered in our prayers. May God hold you close and bless you with love and peace.

During Teacher Appreciation Week 2021, we offer our prayers of gratitude for all called to be educators - both past and present. Thank you, teachers, principals, child caregivers, administrators, and others serving in education. May God Bless You and Keep You! Please join us by thanking all the wonderful teachers in your life and offering continuing prayers for all educators. In our prayerful reflections, we also ask, "What can we do to help support the challenging, yet vital work of teachers especially during challenging times like this past year?" #ThankATeacher #TeacherAppreciationWeek

There’s only ONE DAY left until the International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking! Join us online at 10 am CET for the PRAYER MARATHON fea...turing 50+ networks of Catholics and women religious around the world, working and praying for an #EconomyWithoutTrafficking. YouTube Live: www.youtube.com/c/preghieracontrotratta Let’s turn on a light against trafficking! #PrayAgainstTrafficking See more

This #BlackHistoryMonth we commit to embrace diversity, seek deeper understanding and listen with open hearts.

Mark your calendars: February 8 for the Marathon of Prayer for an end to human trafficking.

Let us faithfully go forward into the last weekend of January 2021 with gratitude for those who continue to help us endure the pandemic - many of whom were not fully appreciated until we needed them the most. Thank you!

"After a difficult election season, it is time for us to take up the twin tasks of reconciliation and healing," LCWR said in a statement released today in which... it pledges support to this work. "In these challenging times it is critically important that we break through that which divides us one from another, repair fractured relationships and reclaim our essential unity. "The people of this pluralistic nation form a diverse community characterized by different beliefs, experiences, and interests. We know that our differences can be our greatest strengths; our disagreements, opportunities to seek the truth. Our challenge is to embrace those differences and together seek the common good lest we rend the bonds that unite us." Read the statement in its entirety at https://lcwr.org//lcwr-pledges-work-administration-heal-na

"In these challenging times it is critically important that we break through that which divides us one from another, repair fractured relationships and reclaim our essential unity.... We know that our differences can be our greatest strengths; our disagreements, opportunities to seek the truth. Our challenge is to embrace those differences and together seek the common good lest we rend the bonds that unite us." Please join us as we reflect upon the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) statement in its entirety at https://lcwr.org//lcwr-pledges-work-administration-heal-na

Today, our world needs you more than ever. Let us go forward together following in Christ's footsteps of intentional, extravagant, and unconditional love.

November Blessings and Happenings for you in our latest e-newsletter!