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Season of Creation 2023

Season of Creation 2023

We are entering the Season of Creation. This Friday, September 1, with the Feast of Creation, we begin this ecumenical season of prayer and action for our common home. At the General Audience on Wednesday, August 30, Pope Francis stressed the urgent need to “end the...

Historic Half Moon Bay

Historic Half Moon Bay

Photos by Sister Jeannette FilthautBY SISTER PAULINE LALLY For about 20 summers now, I have been involved with the historic Half Moon Sunday evening services in the St. Lawrence River in a bay shaped as a crescent moon on Bostwich Island in the middle of the St....

Everything has its time

Everything has its time

Providence Village is a community of hope, belonging and wellbeing for the vulnerable where diverse partners offer compassionate care and support services to honour and continue the spirit and Catholic legacy of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul. The...

New monthly webinar series

New monthly webinar series

New monthly webinar series With over 1400 registered participants, the first webinar in our new monthly series, Journeying with the Laudato Si´ Action Platform, was a huge success! You can watch a recording of “Wonder and Awe: How Eco-Spirituality Can Inspire Us in...

Interfaith teachings on peace – 2022 potluck

Interfaith teachings on peace – 2022 potluck

BY SISTER PAULINE LALLY A vibrant group of individuals from various faiths, beliefs and spiritual traditions, who have been meeting monthly since the 150th Anniversary of Canada, held their annual potluck – the 1st still in the pandemic – in Memorial Hall at the...

Interfaith teachings on peace – 2022 potluck

Kingston Interfaith Potluck 2022

Photos by Sister Jeannette Filthaut, SPThe Kingston Interfaith Community held a potluck supper on November 29, and Sister Pauline Lally spoke to the group as a Christian member of the interfaith group. The theme for the evening was "Peace" which Sister Pauline...

Remembrance Day 2022

Remembrance Day 2022

Photo by Sister Jeannette Filthaut.Sister Pauline Lally was invited to speak at the Remembrance Day ceremony at Providence Care Hospital, where she spoke of the lives lost in WWI and many wars since that we remember on November 11. As a longtime justice and peace...

Hiroshima Day – August 6

Hiroshima Day – August 6

BY PAULINE LALLY, SP Social scientist, Brené Brown says we need to show up for collective moments of joy and sorrow so that we can bear witness to inextricable human connections.  That’s why we go to funerals, protests, sports events, concerts, Sunday Mass. ...

World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

“Caring for God’s creation is a spiritual commission requiring a response of commitment. This is a critical moment. Our children’s future and the future of our common home depend on it” -Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Pope Francis and Archbishop of Canterbury...