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Season of Creation 2022: Fair Trade and Climate Change
...plant trees on land that has been cleared and degraded in order to prevent soil erosion. Fair Trade provides education to farmers about environmentally friendly practices that enable farmers to develop nutrient-rich soils that nourish healthy plants. Fair Trade alerts farmers to certain agrochemicals that harm the environment and cautions farmers on the use of pesticides. Further ways in which Fair Trade farmers protect the environment may be accessed here. What are some Fair Trade items? Food: Bananas, Cereals, Cocoa,...
WVC adds ‘Real Organic Project’ certification
...protect the integrity of the organic label. Organic farming has always been based on “feed the soil, not the plant.” Young plants inside the greenhouse. Real organic farming relies on the microbial activity of the soil to slowly release nutrients to the plant. In recent years, many organic farmers have grown distraught over USDA decisions that have negated this fundamental truth, even though growing in soil is original to the USDA Organic standards. Further, rules have been overlooked regarding the...
Project Winter High Tunnel
...a high tunnel, space in them is at a premium. We rarely have a fallow row. In fact, it’s not unusual to pull an old crop out one afternoon, throw down and rake in some compost and organic soil amendments, and plant a new crop in the same spot the very next morning. Tomatoes on a Tuesday. Lettuce on a Wednesday. It’s efficient. It’s productive. It’s regenerative. But it’s not a facsimile of nature. For all that we gain in...
History Timeline 1840-1926
...while boring for oil or gas 1893 Sisters of Providence exhibit at Chicago World’s Fair, highlighting Catholic education offerings 1900 Jubilee Year proclaimed by Pope Leo XIII 1903 First airplane flight by Wright Brothers opens a new era 1907 Consecration of the Church of the Immaculate Conception 1908 Cure of cancer of Sister Mary Theodosia Mug after she prays at tomb of Mother Theodore for the health of another sister Mother Theodore’s legacy begins Many people love Mother Theodore and...
Nature is a powerful healing source
...relatively cool that morning, and very pleasant. A nice reprieve from the summer heat and humidity. I became immersed in the task at hand, which involved tilling the soil within a high tunnel. When I completed the task, I stood back and looked at the freshly tilled soil. It so happened at that moment the bells at St. Mary-of-the-Woods began ringing. They rang everyday when I worked during the week, but this was a new song. I listened in admiration...
White Violet Center earns ‘Real Organic Project’ designation
If you see our refrigerated truck at the Terre Haute Farmers Market or out and about in the community, you might notice a new sticker on the back door. That’s because the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (WVC) farm has received a new certification from the Real Organic Project – a true “farmer-led movement.” According to their website, the Real Organic Project was created by farmers to distinguish soil-grown and pasture-raised products under USDA organic. In response to the lack...
History Timeline 1966–Today
...to renew and adapt according to the Gospels, the original mission of their order, and the signs of the times. By 1969, the sisters have new rules for the process of becoming a sister. During these years, sisters begin to wear “street clothing” if they wish. They renovate the Church in the 1980s to meet new liturgy guidelines. 1970 Mother Mary Pius announces she will henceforth be known as “Sister” Finding new ways to teach and serve In the second...
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin’s Story
...not deter her. As a new sister, Sister Saint Theodore Guerin was sent to various parishes in France where she taught, helped the poor and cared for the sick. 1840 Missionary to Indiana When the bishop of Vincennes, Indiana requested sisters to come to the New World to help with the influx of Catholic immigrants, Saint Mother Theodore was thought to be the only woman who could undertake such a demanding mission. The journey was long and difficult. After traveling...
Mary Richard Griffith
...well as at schools in Indiana, Massachusetts, St. Louis and at Manchester, Mo. From 1978 to 1981, she ministered on the general administration staff at the Woods, before traveling to Los Angeles to minister as business manager and bookkeeper of Our Lady of Loretto Parish. She also ministered in parish service at St. Elisabeth, Van Nuys, Calif., before returning to the Woods in 1992. Sister Mary Richard loved music and art, especially oil painting. She also made pieces of jewelry....
BEing Providence in the World
...losses. The ministry extends its works of listening, accompaniment and healing through teams scattered across the U.S., Canada, the UK and Ireland, Singapore and New Zealand. Some think it odd that we put the divorced and separated together with the widowed, but at the core what those losses share is suffering that manifests itself uniquely for each person: grief, disbelief, anger, frustration, sorrow, depression, and other emotions and actions taken as a consequence of what each individual is feeling. ...
Care of Earth in everyday life: Sisters Ellen Cunningham and Rosemary Nudd
...to realize that new life is being generated out of decay,” Sister Ellen said. Their compost pile has two compartments bordered by cinder block. “When one side is pretty well on its way to being nice ‘potting soil,’ we let it lie fallow and start on the other side,” Sister Ellen said. “Dorothy uses the rich soil for gardening.” (This article is additional web content for the Fall 2013 issue of HOPE magazine. Read the full issue of HOPE here.)...
Rose Virginia Eichman
...Albany, Ind.: Activities Assistant, Providence Retirement Home (1983-84) New Albany, Ind.: Nurses’ Aide, Providence Retirement Home (1984-85) New Albany, Ind.: Laundry/Housekeeping/Resident Aide, Providence Retirement Home (1985-87) New Albany, Ind.: Resident Aide, Providence Retirement Home (1987-94) New Albany, Ind.: Assistant to Day Care Supervisor, Providence Self Sufficiency Ministries (1994-96) New Albany, Ind.: Child Care Staff, Providence Self Sufficiency Ministries (1996-98) New Albany, Ind.: Housekeeping/Child Care Staff, Providence House (1998-2000) Georgetown, Ind.: Volunteer, Providence Self Sufficiency Ministries and Holy Family Parish (2001-18)...