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White Violet Center for Eco-Justice: The beliefs have never changed
...You can come visit us on Earth Day, alpaca open barn days, alpaca yoga, and many other on campus events. You can learn how to bake sourdough bread, how to spin yarn, do forest meditations, or immerse yourself in the woods and White Violet Center in other ways. We want to meet you! We want to teach you! We want to learn from you! Our community is stronger and better when we collaborate, interact, and educate each other. Educating about...
On policing and Providence
...1990s, a parishioner asked Sister Pat if she would consider getting involved in the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS). The aim of the CAPS initiative — now operational in all Chicago neighborhoods and one of the most ambitious community policing initiatives in the U.S. — is to bring police, community stakeholders, and city agencies together to work on neighborhood crime issues. The woman who invited her was thrilled when Sister Pat agreed. The group had previously tried to get Catholic...
Earth Day Every Day: Earth Defenders unite
...resolve. It provides all of us with encouragement and hope. The Learn and Play tent was so much fun at our 2019 Earth Day Festival Although we are not able to have our normal Earth Day celebration again this year, we want to take this week to highlight and celebrate some of our Earth Day partners in our community and give them the opportunity to share their stories about the exciting things they are doing and other helpful tips they...
Earth as home
Sister Joan Matthews connects with creation by picking flowers in the gardens at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. (This article was originally published in the Summer 2013 edition of HOPE.) If you spend any amount of time with a Sister of Providence or a group of sisters, you will quickly learn that taking care of Earth as home is important to them as a Congregation. You’ll hear them use terms like “enoughness” and talk about the interconnectedness of all creation, Earth Charter and...
Advocacy in Action: Walking with Migrants
Note: The following piece was co-written by Sister Mary Montgomery, SP, along with Sister Marge Healy, PBVM, Sister Jan Gregorcich, SSND, and Sister Yliana Hernandez, PBVM, regarding their time of living and learning at the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Mexico from mid-October to mid-November of this year. The opportunity came about through the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) and the Hilton Foundation. “A month just went too fast!” was the sentiment of the four sisters who responded to...
Newsnotes
Blessings of Our Lady of Providence Guests from the Terre Haute and Indianapolis areas joined the Sisters of Providence in celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Providence on Nov. 19 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The Mass included a special blessing for families in honor of Our Lady of Providence, Queen of the Home. Sustainable Indiana award White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (WVC) accepted a west-central Hoosier Green Light Award from Sustainable Indiana 2016, an Earth Charter Indiana initiative, in September....
Celebrate 2016 with the SPs!
...Huong Pham marked her silver jubilee. Cause for celebration indeed! Their gifts continue to touch people’s lives on a daily basis as a child advocate, nurse, hospital chaplain and a minister of care with those in a nursing home setting. The White Violet Center for Eco-Justice celebrated 20 years of teaching, caring and inspiring for all creation. This ministry was selected as a west-central Hoosier Green Light Award recipient by Sustainable Indiana 2016, an Earth Charter Indiana initiative. Also during...
Hoosier Green Light Award
...Award recipient by Sustainable Indiana 2016, an Earth Charter Indiana initiative. Also during the ceremony, White Violet Center was inducted into the Bicentennial Green Legacy Hall of Fame. John Gibson, Sustainable Indiana 2016 state coordinator, speaks during the Green Lights ceremony. Sister Dawn and Lorrie accepted the award presented by John Gibson, Sustainable Indiana 2016 state coordinator. See the entire list of recipients (White Violet Center is in Region 7) at www.SustainableIndiana2016.org. Congratulations to the Sisters of Providence, White Violet...
Love, mercy, justice: working together to welcome the stranger
...long ago God planted a seed for this opportunity to welcome someone into our home. I was on the team that founded Enlace Academy, a charter school in Indianapolis dedicated to serving the immigrant population, an underserved community. Two of our daughters have studied and worked in Spanish-speaking countries in Central America and Spain. Although I have taken some classes in Spanish, I am far from proficient in the language and my husband Kim knows very little. Yet, we have...
Sisters of Providence ministry founders
In 1840, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and her five companion Sisters of Providence traveled from Ruillé-sur-Loir, France, to Indiana to help educate Catholic immigrants in the area. Sketch of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Village Church and 1st Institute 1843 The sisters arrived on Oct. 22, 1840, and settled at Saint Mary-of-the- Woods. Less than one year later, on July 4, 1841, they had established Saint Mary’s Female Institute, also known as the Academy. In 1846, the school received the first charter for...
History Timeline 1966–Today
...the 1980s and ’90s, sisters start several new programs to provide low-income housing, elder care and services for families who need help. Learn more about our social services ministry 1992 Mother Theodore Guerin declared Venerable as first step toward canonization Hope and healing for Earth In the 1980s the sisters begin a recycling program at Saint Mary’s. They also work with local and federal groups to make sure their forests are healthy. In 1995, the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice...
Can you help Bella and the alpacas travel more safely?
...Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. I love jumping and running with my alpaca herd members and greeting our many visitors. I have an important job. I teach visitors on the Sisters of Providence grounds here at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and other friends about taking good care of our earth. We alpacas are special. We are easy on the Earth. We provide a great natural fertilizer for the organic gardens at the Woods. We also provide soft and wonderful fiber that can be made into...