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Social justice
You are invited to share in the Sisters of Providence quest for peace and justice. We have a mission of being God’s Providence in the world by committing to performing works of love, mercy and justice in service among God’s people. Through Congregational decisions, individual ministry and within our own spiritual lives, we continue to strive for peace and justice. Won’t you join us? If you would like to know more information about our justice endeavors, please contact our Justice...
A Call to all Justice Advocates
...Justice For many years, we have ministered with NETWORK, an organization founded by Catholic Sisters in 1972. NETWORK calls for the reshaping of federal policies to better ensure racial and economic social justice. Sister Emily TeKolste, SP, ministers as a Grassroots Mobilization Specialist for NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice. Join us! If you are interested in joining us in our justice endeavors, please contact our Justice Promoter, Sister Barbara Battista, at BBattista@spsmw.org or donate to our justice causes here....
Newsnotes
...Also during the ceremony, White Violet Center was inducted into the Bicentennial Green Legacy Hall of Fame. General Superior Dawn Tomaszewski, left, and WVC Director Lorrie Heber 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 SustainableIndiana2016.org Alternative fall break Five students from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, spent their fall break at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice giving service in September. They...
The Gift of Being Teachable: Lessons in Being Wonderfully Made in Taiwan
My third volunteer mission experience led me to St. Theresa Opportunity Center in Tainan City, Taiwan, founded by Maryknoll Rev. Brendan O’Connell in 1988. Sister Joan McCarthy, SP, served as the first director of the center. It was first established as a daycare center for people with disabilities in the rural parts of Southern Taiwan. Today, Charity has been the director for more than 20 years to continue the legacy. Preparing for a play performance. In the early stages of...
What is Eco-Justice?
...economically challenged communities of color who were disproportionately exposed to polluting industries. Environmental justice addresses connections between the well-being of earth and the human community with special focus upon those who are disproportionately affected by environmental degradation because of economics, race, gender and age. While Environmental Justice is most commonly used, Eco-Justice more aptly describes the relationship between the systemic problems facing individuals, communities and the natural world. “Ec,” whose roots rest in the Latin word OIKOS – refers to...
From farming to teaching to counseling to care of Earth: Sister Ann Sullivan’s story
...a spirituality of hope and healing provided the framework for the Center’s planning and development in educating for a just, sustainable future. Thinking differently Sister Ann moved on from her ministry at White Violet Center in 2008. Today she continues to speak and to offer retreats focusing on the need to educate for a just and sustainable future — the same need that led her to form the foundation of White Violet Center for Eco-Justice in 1996. On the journey,...
8th Day Center for Justice: Statement on White Supremacy
...that there is a line that can never be crossed. It is a step toward addressing the radical harms that white supremacy has enacted globally. White “ignorance” needs to be named. White ignorance is the denial of knowledge of harms of oppression that the white community commits. Arguments that minimize and distort concrete realities that white supremacy produces can no longer be excused. Frameworks that “explain away” the self-evidentiary knowledge of white supremacy’s impacts and actions are not neutral or...
Hoosier Green Light Award
Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, left, and Lorrie Heber accepted the Green Light Award on behalf of White Violet Center for Eco-Justice last night. Sisters of Providence General Superior Dawn Tomaszewski, White Violet Center for Eco-Justice Director Lorrie Heber and I attended an energizing and inspiring evening at the Vigo County Public Library last night to celebrate Hoosier solutions to our climate crisis. The event was called the Green Lights Celebration. White Violet Center was selected as a west-central Hoosier Green Light...
Nature is a powerful healing source
...that is dead and dormant, while in the back of my mind summoning the patience that will get me through until spring arrives with all of its excitement. I am reflecting on the events of the year that just passed. I am reflecting on my life. I am reflecting on my time working in the garden at the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. After working 16 years as an environmental consultant Josh Price worked a summer in the White Violet...
Newsnotes from the Sisters of Providence fall 2021
...age of 88. They grow up so fast! Sister Ann Sullivan in the greenhouse during her years as director of White Violet Center for Eco-Justice White Violet Center for Eco-Justice has been in existence for 25 years — a quarter of a century! During the Sisters of Providence 1991 General Chapter, the Congregation committed to eco-justice and eco-spirituality. Sister Ann Sullivan, SP, offered a proposal which resulted in creating White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. The ministry opened in 1996. Happy...
A special family visit
Sister Mary Montgomery (in back) with her niece Susan and Susan’s daughter Violet in the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. As Susan and her 2-year-old daughter Violet were standing outside Providence Spirituality & Conference Center, Susan’s mother, Anna, went inside. This was the family’s second visit to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The family lives in Phoenix. Puzzled, Violet asked her mother where her grandma went. Susan said she went inside the building. Violet then said, “She went to pray. She’s going...
Jeanne Knoerle
...July 22, 1949. Her teaching ministries led her to schools in Illinois, Indiana and Washington, D.C., before returning to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College to join the faculty, where she taught for eight years. She was named president of the college in 1968 and stayed in this ministry until 1983. In 2008, she officially retired, but continued to minister at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. She was honored by the City of Cleveland in 1983 as they declared Sister Jeanne Knoerle Day....