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Caring for Those in Need: Serving God’s Children at the Border
...Catholic Sisters, staff and volunteers at the Kino Border Initiative. ‘Loved and Cared for’ Whether recently deported from the United States, attempting to seek asylum or just trying to figure out what’s next, these immigrants are loved and cared for here. They are given homemade hot meals, clothes, medical care, counseling services, legal aid and more. They are offered God’s love at a time of great need. Sister of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Tracey Horan serves as the associate director...
Sister Helen Vinton (formerly Sister Helen Jean)
...in the first ever Earth Day Walk for Mankind. All the students felt that Sister Helen Jean was the original Earth Mother.” Every year Sister Helen Jean took a group of these high school students on a wilderness trip to explore Quetico Provincial Park in Canada. Quite a field trip, to say the least! Her student at the time, Julia Boarini Conaghan, recalled, “I look back and realize it was more than a week in the woods. It was an...
Sister Richard Bussing
...of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’ God said, ‘See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every...
Season of Creation 2022: Eco-Spirituality
...relationship within Earth community. Videos and Documentaries A three-minute meditation from the Sisters of Mercy 60 Eco-Conscious Documentaries to Honor Mother Earth Articles “Love For God And Earth: Eco-spirituality In The Theologies of Sallie McFague And Leonardo Boff” Eco-Spirituality: A Foundation for Ecological Justice An Ecological Spirituality Embracing the Challenge of Franciscan Eco-Spirituality in the Age of Pope Francis An Interview with Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis at Genesis Farm Books Book List by Terri Mackenzie, RSHJM (Terri has inspiring CD’s...
‘We’re All in This Together: Eat, Shop, Support Local’
With the warmer temperatures, we all welcome with happy hearts the first signs of flowers and buds on the trees, the longer days full of sun and the return of more outdoor activities. For 23 years, White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (WVC) and the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, have had an annual Earth Day Festival on the campus of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to usher in spring, acknowledge all that the Earth provides for us and deliver a call...
Everything is Connected – Our Consumption
Note: We want to share these blogs which have been adapted from “Our Common Home,” a joint initiative of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development along with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). This is the sixth blog in a series of eight. Our Consumption “A world of exacerbated consumption is at the same time a world which mistreats life in all its forms.” (Laudato Si’ 230) Ever-increasing consumerism and industrial patterns of production are having severe consequences for the...
Political Engagement Committee: Our Platform
On May 19, 2020, the Climate Change Task Force affirmed the following platform to inform and encourage discussion among the Providence Community, to aid in identifying candidates for elected office who support these positions, and to engage candidates in a discussion about policies related to global climate change. From the Providence Climate Agreement: “Mindful of the effects of climate injustice on the cosmos, Earth, and all creatures of Earth, particularly the most vulnerable, we commit to work for climate justice...
Earth Day 2023
...at the Wabash Valley Beekeepers display. The ReThink display. Children coloring. The Mat Makers. A look at many of the vendors at the festival. Taking a break. A look at many of the vendors. Take Flight! Wildlife Education displays a hawk. Sister Paula Damiano addressing the crowd. Providence Teen Ministry provided assistance for the sisters during Earth Day. Providence Teen Ministry provided assistance for the sisters during Earth Day. Providence Teen Ministry provided assistance for the sisters during Earth Day....
For our Congregation, this is Eco-Justice
...invitation of justice, of right relationship, with Earth. Pope Francis in his encyclical, Laudato Si’: On Care of our Common Home, expresses the moral and ethical realities of our injustices to Earth and human thriving. Expressed in the Pope’s Laudato Deum, God is calling us to conversion and transformation attitudinally and behaviorally. This change of heart and action is both individual and collective, personal and with/for others. Eco-justice addresses environmental injustices. These occur when hazardous wastes, resource extractions, fossil fuel...
The Cry of the Poor
...to how our actions affect others, especially the poor and Earth. For example, are we aware that when we throw things away that we impact Earth and human thriving? Are we aware of how much plastic we use, its non-decomposing properties and the $250,000,000,000 international health care cost in 2018 due to effects of plastic on humans? (“Plastic Free Resolutions: Protecting Your Health in 2023,” webinar of Plastic Pollution Coalition, Jan. 18, 2024). Gasping for Life As Earth gasps for...
Oral history: Sister Ann Sullivan
...… Tulsa, Galesburg, Cambridge, Rosary Hill, Ireland, healthcare. Her advice – “It is what it is” — is a mantra for lighting your lamps, letting them shine for yourself and for others. “Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.” – Barbara Taylor Brown A ‘Farm Kid’ A farm kid. Sister Ann Sullivan has been walking among the altars Providence has provided us on this Earth...
White Violet Center teaming with ISU for month-long Earth Day Celebration
For 23 years, White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (WVC), a ministry of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, have conducted the annual Earth Day Celebration on the campus at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods as a call to action to all members of the community. And for the past 19 years, the Office of Sustainability at Indiana State University (ISU) has offered Earth Day Celebrations as well. This year, WVC has teamed with ISU’s Office of Sustainability with the hope of...