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It’s National CSA Day!
It’s National CSA Day! Sisters of Providence Community Supported Agriculture members enjoy organic vegetables like these watermelon radishes grown at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Thoughts of watermelon radishes, red-Russian kale, garlic scapes, rainbow Swiss chard, and collard greens are welcomed on this Friday in February. I can almost taste them now. If you live in the Terre Haute area, hopefully you’ll take a moment to explore one of the opportunities the Sisters of Providence have for fresh, organic vegetables — it’s their...
Sustainable agriculture internships
An internship at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, might mean planting, weeding or harvesting green beans. An internship at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice has been described as the chance of a lifetime by those who have come and gone. There are many sustainable agriculture learning experiences in the world, but one at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, includes hundreds of Catholic Sisters of Providence from which to learn and be inspired. I’ve been told it’s one of...
Photos! Providence Associate retreat 2017
...for Eco-Justice during their breakout session learn about seedlings in the greenhouse from Providence Associate and White Violet Center Intern Ezra Meadors, second from right. From left are: Providence Associate Betty Sloan, Sister Mary Moloney, Providence Associate Debra Prieto, Ezra and Sister Ellen Kehoe. Sister Joan Matthews plays the piano and sings with the breakout session that got together and made music. Visiting retired sisters in Lourdes Hall was one breakout session. From left are Providence Associate Candidate Eileen Horan,...
Language barriers, smiles and unexpected gifts: Sister Denise Wilkinson reflects from France
...looks just like theirs.) Did I expect that these otherwise wonderful women don’t have the custom of celebrating St Patrick’s Day? What? No shamrocks? No Irish soda bread? No wearin’ of the green? Nope! And they are as interested in why we do as I am in why they don’t. Now I know that having waded into the water, I am enjoying whatever each day brings. Smiles as comfort I am getting to know each sister by paying attention to...
Where God walks: a poetic response to deeply spiritual places
...And the heart stills, stops, halts — no, you are not on the moon; the ground grasses green, sky pulses blue, the smell of the place is ancient but known. And yet. The silence is deeper, divine, the air crowded with exemplary souls, and you want to join them — shrug off your body like an old coat and disappear into ether. Pierced to the root, overcome by a sun that seems more heavenward than most, you fill your lungs...
What is Eco-Justice?
...has immediate implications for the entire world. Ending neo-liberal capitalist policies which deregulate the market and allow corporations to ignore or circumvent environmental standards. Preventing super PACs and corporate funding of political campaigns and policies which allow corporations to do vast environmental damage. Reducing carbon emissions to reach the 2-1.5 degree temperature goal set in Paris. Keeping fossil fuels in the ground. Increased money for the Green Climate Fund, implementation of adaptation and mitigation. Highlighting real effects of fossil fuels...
Providence Associates photo highlights 2011
...next to Mary Kay is Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, general officer liaison to the associates. Father Dan is also a Providence Associate. Seven Providence Associates renewed their commitments during the Rite of Commitment and Renewal on Nov. 19, 2011, at St. Malachy Catholic Church in Brownsburg, Ind. They are (left to right): Nancy McClaskey, Indianapolis; Sue Hyland, Kokomo, Ind.; Kathy Newport, Beech Grove, Ind.; Donna Gilmore, Indianapolis; Mary Carroll Blocher, Greenville, Ohio; Debbie Dillow, Lizton, Ind.; and Judy Meyer, Plainfield, Ind....
Rainy day on and off the farm
...Greencastle, Indiana, visited. Garden Manager Candace Minster showed them around and answered questions about the ministry. They’re pictured below with Director Lorrie Heber, Sister Mary Montgomery, Candace and myself. And there is no way we can give a recap of the day without talking about the morning alpaca show at the Vigo County Fair in Terre Haute. White Violet Center is a co-sponsor of the Vigo County Alpaca Handlers 4-H Club. These photos are from the obstacle course portion of...
Everything about autumn can be spiritual
...green. A painter’s palette of colors easily recognized as autumn’s signature. Fallen leaves crunch under our footsteps; the piles of fallen leaves create mounds children jump into and out of, scatter and regather for more jumping and laughter. Then Jesus said: allow the children to come to me. … Don’t forbid them because it is to people like these that the kingdom of heaven is given. (Matthew 9:14) Farmers harvest the yields of their faithful labor and the gifts of...
2017 reflection for Foundation Day
...of us. There we were in New York being told to disembark from the ship by climbing down a rope ladder into a little green rowboat. Our good Theodore was, of course, the first to descend, whispering to the rest of us, “Come, if we have to die, let us die, but say nothing!” Her strength gave us strength and “none showed fear except our poor Sister Ligouri.” Sister St. Theodore’s strength surely showed itself again today as we wound...
L’association Providence-Armor
...home in Etables-sur-Mer. It was in this place, which is still there today, that she lived through joys and sorrows with her parents and siblings and it was in this place that she gave her heart to God. I was very blessed to have been able to visit her home this past May. It is a simple and lovely stone cottage sitting on a shady piece of God’s green earth. Since visiting, I’ve asked myself if walls hold memories. Do...
A Christmas memory
...our altitude looked like a giant Christmas tree lit up in red, white and green. I still have a very vivid picture in my memory. We landed in Tel Aviv just at the beginning of Hannukah! We quickly learned that homecoming Jewish friends and families were met with extraordinary warmth, surrounded by large circles of welcoming families and friends singing and dancing a folk song. In the midst of what can only be called a very dynamic, raucous, chaotic setting,...