Our Charism
Our founder, Blessed John Martin Moye, was a priest and a prophet for the Church and the world of his time, whose source of insight, courage, and power was always the same: a strong confidence in the providence of God. This confidence in a provident God is a grace for the world entrusted to Father Moye and to the Sisters of Divine Providence. It stands as the particular way God is present to the world through us.
Our Spirit, Our Four Fundamental Virtues
The hallmarks of our women of Providence--poverty, simplicity, charity, and abandonment to Divine Providence--constitute our essential and unique spirit.
To be abandoned to Divine Providence is far from being only passive. It is to be actively involved in the world willing to accept necessary risks of living out our mission for the world.
To live in simplicity means that we do all things in the spirit of Jesus and that all our actions are motivated by sincerity and truth. Simplicity enables us to speak clearly the message of God's providence.
To live the virtue of poverty is to liberate us to do God's work and demands that we live simply, maintaining only what we need to carry out our mission. Through our poverty, Providence becomes a living reality for the world.
To live by charity is to bear witness to it and to put it into practice in behalf of others by an outpouring of the spiritual and corporal works of mercy.