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About the history of the Congregation and our foundress
Pilgrims in Providence: A history of the Texas Congregation of Divine Providence in Mexico,
Sister Mary Christine Morkovsky, CDP
Our sisters in the region requested this written history to have the opportunity to tell our stories and relate the history of our beginnings in Mexico. In this interesting historical narrative, I trust that you, the reader, will find that the paths of God are unexplainable. Providence uses many ways to carry out God’s plans.
Our story begins with the five of us. As young women, we were called without a clear understanding about the invitation that we were receiving. But the Lord knew what he wanted from us. The invitation we received was to prepare ourselves to be better catechists without the clarity of a call or vocation to the consecrated life.
Peregrinos en la Providencia: Reseña Histórica de la Congregación de Divina Providencia de Tejas en México
Sister Mary Christine Morkovsky, CDP
Las hermanas de la Región pedimos esta historia escrita para tener la oportunidad de compartir nuestras experiencias y nuestros inicios en México. En esta interesante reseña histórica confío que encontraran que los caminos de Dios son inexplicables. La Providencia se vale de muchos medios para llevar a cabo sus planes.
Nuestra historia comienza con cinco jóvenes que fuimos llamadas sin tener claridad en la invitación que estábamos recibiendo de parte de Dios. Sin embargo, el Señor sabía lo que quería de nosotras. La invitación que recibimos fue para prepararnos a ser mejores catequistas para servir en nuestras parroquias, sin tener la claridad de una vocación a la vida consagrada.
–Hermana Susana Cárdenas, CDP
The Tattered Heart Sister Mary Diane Langford, CDP, chronicles the historical fiction biography of Mother St. Andrew Feltin, CDP foundress of the Sisters of Divine Providence. The detailed life of the earliest days of the Sisters of Divine Providence is richly and historically documented with accuracy and supported through detailed archival reference. Sr. Diane details the hardships and realities of being a Texas pioneer, starting a religious order with little to no support of the Archdiocese of Texas, and her abrupt separation from the Catholic Church by a vindictive bishop. (2007) $33.50
Living in God’s Providence Sister Mary Christine Morkovsky, CDP, preserves for the Sisters of Divine Providence as well as the general public significant events in a time of momentous changes from 1943 to 2000. All the Sisters alive in 2000 were interviewed for this book. Their personal reactions and reflections illuminate the inner life of the Congregation, especially during and after the second Vatican Council.
(2009) $20.00
The History of the Sisters of Divine Providence Sister Mary Generosa Callahan, CDP, traces the roots of the Congregation of Divine Providence from Saint Jean-de-Bassel to their home in San Antonio, Texas over a period of seventy-eight years. The work contains special features such as detail to little known facts on important aspects of the history of the Church in the Southwest, desires of the immigrants to have schools specific to their nationalities, and the problems the Sisters faced in Louisiana with segregated schools in post-Reconstruction America. It is the first published chronology of the Sisters of Divine Providence, blessed by Archbishop Robert E. Lucey in 1954.
(1955) $10.00
About John Martin Moye, founder of the Sisters of Providence
A Missionary Spirituality: The Blessed John Martin Moye 1730-1793 As translated from French to English by Sister Generosa Callahan, CDP, John Martin Moye was born in the diocese of Metz, France in 1730. After his ordination, he served as assistant priest in Lorraine, France. Jean Guennou documents the storied life of Moye’s journey from France to China and back again, yielding over 6000 members of Sisters of Divine Providence. This work makes a special study of Moye’s spirituality in his writings.
(1970) $5.00
John Martin Moye: Shepherd of Untended Sheep Religious ignorance and physical poverty pervaded the villages and towns of France in the eighteenth century. During this period of spiritual apathy and treason, Father Moye appeared to enlighten the common people with divine truth and thrill them with love of God. This account of his life and work, the first biography to appear in English, is a fascinating story of high courage and indomitable faith. Author, Raoul Plus, S.J., creates a striking parallel between the work of Father Moye in China and the labors of St. Vincent de Paul in France. Both gave of themselves to the constant preaching of the Word, to the formation of the clergy, to the relief of poverty, and to most tedious journeys where souls were to be saved.
(1950) $5.00
Other
Evangelization: God’s Love For Man With his permission, this is Sister Mary Rachel Moreno, CDP’s translation of Fr. Alfonso Navarro Castellanos, MSPS guide on how and to whom we should evangelize God’s omnipresent love. Father Navarro’s book has a basic pattern of thought that not only brings the reader from the communities founded by the Apostles, but also stretches through an unknown future full of hope and love, enabling the reader to submit their life to Lord Jesus.
(1986) $10.00
Select Homilies In February 2001 at the age of 82, Father Roy Rihn mothballed his typewriter and begin to use the computer as his preferred way to document and archive over 200 of his favorite homilies. He uses this book to capture his favorite of homilies through all the liturgical cycles. All proceeds from this book are used to support the senior CDP Sisters at Our Lady of the Lake Convent Center in San Antonio, TX.
(2007) $20.00
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