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Earth Day Festival 2026
April 18 at 11:00 am – 3:00 pm EDT Various locations at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods 1 Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 White Violet Center for Eco-Justice 812-535-2930 View Facilitator Website Sisters of Providence Free You and the family are invited to the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice and Sisters of Providence annual Earth Day Festival at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods! Immerse yourself in nature at our beautiful Woods while enjoying many different activities. There’s something for everyone from nature shows and earth-related craft activities for the...
Sister Tracey Horan recognized by USCCB
...church provide a vehicle for people to claim our God-given power and human dignity despite sometimes overwhelming feelings of powerlessness. People like Cardinal Tobin, who accompanied Emilio, an undocumented grandfather, to immigration court, have underlined the significance of this work today. – As Cardinal Tobin said, our call is to be people of faith-to “be the no” to a nation that chooses to separate families who are victims of a broken system. Cardinal Bernadin’s Common Ground Initiative states, “Each of...
A journey to wider acceptance and love: Sister Tracey Horan and immigration
...I discerned a ministry change, my transformational experience in El Paso combined with the United States’ escalating fear-driven policies around immigrant exclusion led me back to the border. As Education Coordinator at the Kino Border Initiative, I am now part of a team of people who facilitate encounters that humanize and complicate perceptions around migration primarily through conversations between migrants and visitors at the migrant aid center and shelter in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. With each immersion experience, we commission another...
Sister Nancy Nolan (formerly Sister Jean Paula)
...address as the 15th General Superior of the Sisters of Providence, and it set her and us on a trajectory for the next 10 years of inspired speeches, down-to-earth reminders and a razor-sharp focus on the charism and mission of Providence “for which so many have given so much.” Her signature line became Mother Theodore’s trustful words: “Have confidence in the Providence that so far has never failed us.” And she gave abundant witness to this in her life and...
The Sisters of Providence mission: living the Gospel today
...of those who are spiritually hungry. Our White Violet Center for Eco-Justice provides organic food and works to heal this ailing planet we call Earth. Sisters serving But beyond our sponsored institutions and ministries, we Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods carry out the mission in many other ways as well. Our doctor, nurses and other health care ministers provide care for those who suffer physically, emotionally and/or spiritually. Our spiritual directors and hospital chaplains attend to those who, in...
Ecological pioneer teacher leaves lasting impression
Sister Helen Jean Vinton oversees a biology lab at Ladywood-St. Agnes School. Before Sister Helen Vinton was advocating for people and Earth in Loiusiana, she was influencing lives as a science teacher at Ladywood (later Ladywood-St. Agnes) High School in Indianapolis. Her former students remember her as ahead of her time in the 1960s and 70s in bringing ecology and care for Earth to their attention. Follow the link on each name for that person’s full reflection. “The most memorable...
The original Earth Mother
Just wanted to add some thoughts about our Sister Helen Jean. She taught me biology, advanced biology and ecology. I truly loved having my own plot of land on our gorgeous campus to explore and track vegetation. She really opened up a whole new world to us City Girls. In the Spring of 1971, Sister Helen Jean encouraged us to participate in the first ever Earth Day Walk for [Hu]mankind. Many of us hold deep and lasting memories of that...
Sister Ruth Johnson: kinship with creation
Sister Ruth Johnson, above right, lives out her kinship with creation these days as a volunteer and fiber artist at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, a ministry of the Sisters of Providence at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Above she demonstrates her alpaca fiber art to a young visitor at the annual Earth Day celebration at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. At the age of 4, Sister Ruth Johnson’s family moved to the country. She thinks she was being prepared for her belief, understanding and connection...
Blessing a summer harvest prayer ritual
...delicious apple pies. This season marks the wealth of Earth. Let us connect ourselves to this wheel of life. Place symbols of the summer harvest—wheat, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, peaches, basil, mint, other herbs, bread and lemonade—in front of you or in the center of a circle. Reading: “The Garden is Rich with Diversity,” Chinook Psalter, from Earth Prayers, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, ©1991. The garden is rich with diversity With plants of a hundred families In...
A Providence Advent Calendar
...signs in the sun, the moon and the stars, and upon Earth… Look at the fig tree, and all the trees.” –Luke 21:25-36 What signs of Providence do you see in the sun, moon, stars, Earth, and trees? Monday: “… you ought not to give way to uneasiness about the future. Put yourself gently into the hands of Providence.” – Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Give someone your hand today and offer comfort. Tuesday: “I feel the touch of Jesus very...
Spirit in community: Providence Associate spring retreat 2019
It was a beautiful weekend despite the rain for the 80-plus Providence Associates, Sisters of Providence and guests who attended the Providence Associate spring retreat March 8-10, 2019, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sister Dianne Bergant, C.S.A, led us in a deep and living conversation around the topic of the Community of Earth and how we understand our common home. Retreatants looked deeply into how a fuller understanding of the Bible can help humans shift our mindsets from dominating and polluting the...
‘Tis the Season of Visions and Dreams
...2017, the Sisters of Providence Climate Change Task Force began its work by setting its basic goal: To effect systemic change to the underlying causes of climate injustice through education, advocacy, and responses to current issues, especially issues affecting those most severely impacted by climate injustice. At the Annual Meeting in 2018, Sisters, Associates, and Partners in Mission signed the Providence Climate Agreement which, in part, proclaimed: “Mindful of the effects of climate injustice on the cosmos, Earth, and all...