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Celebrating National CSA Sign-Up Day
...yogurt – Toss in a handful of nuts, maybe a drop of vanilla extract … hello snack time! Is your mouth watering yet? Well, that makes two of us. Can’t wait to see what creative dishes this year’s CSA will bring to our table! Check out White Violet Center’s online CSA sign-up page to jump on the CSA train! Comment below to share your favorite ways to use local fruits and veggies. Happy National CSA Sign-Up Day on Feb. 28!...
10 ways to celebrate the Year of Consecrated Life!
...life as religious women and men. Reconnect with a sister, or brother or a religious priest you met in the past. Organize youth/young adult small groups to visit religious ministry sites in your local area. Volunteer for few hours to serve in the ministries of religious men and women. Introduce a person who might have a vocation to religious life to meet a sister/ brother/priest. Discern what God is asking of you to support religious life. Engage conversations of how...
Marybeth Rich, Homosassa, FL: “she helped me personally on many occasions.”
...check on me and when I did get back to school, she was there to welcome me back. In my Senior year, I won a scholarship through the local PDK chapter, and Sister awarded the scholarship to me. Of course, she had to tell the story of how we met, but after I got over my blushing, I realized that she cared for me and I was so honored to represent her and Guerin with the award. On graduation day...
Sisters of Providence Land Ethic
...consumption by recycling and purchasing recycled materials. We will practice conservation and restoration of land through food production, management of forests and wild spaces, and healing and re-habitation of diminished areas. We will be advocates for ethical principles in resource use at local, state, national and global levels. We will explore options and possibilities as we seek both environmental and financial sustainability. We will research options such as: land trusts, easements, deed restrictions and the transfer or selling of development...
So life affirming and so authentic…
...and Sister Paula Damiano, who have also been equally gracious and affirming. I enjoy my Docent activities very much. With the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, the Church of the Immaculate Conception, the grounds, the Sisters and the Sisters of Providence staff, it is truly an amazing place to visit. The Sisters of Providence are such a great gift to our local community and beyond. I have been attending the Sisters of Providence history class directed by Sister Mary...
Sister Helen Jean Vinton: a woman for all time
...in many directions in my life and I give thanks for that. — Maura Healey Davenport, Class of ’72, lives with her husband, Ken, on the shores of Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She is on a local watershed council, participates in battery recycling in their community and was part of the planning for an independent community environmental monitoring program for a copper/nickel mine in her county. And she still picks up trash on her daily walks....
Sister Dorothy Hucksoll (formerly Sister Francis Ellen)
...wit,” all so that Wendy’s “quality of life would be improved.” In writing Wendy’s story, she revealed her own character. In the epilogue, she wrote, “I prayed that each Sister of Providence would receive Sister Wendy as a great blessing bestowed on us in God’s way of Providence.” Following her accompaniment of Sister Wendy, Dorothy spent six year very active in local peace and justice efforts, which had been an interest of hers all her life, having learned it from...
Did you know we need volunteer knitters?
...debut of the new Linden Leaf Gifts, a wonderful space to find unique items handmade by local artisans and a variety of fair-trade items. It is also now home to White Violet Center for Eco-Justice’s fiber arts items, many made from our very own alpacas. Since moving White Violet Center’s fiber items to Linden Leaf Gifts, sales have gone through the roof! Our hardworking volunteers make us proud. One volunteer, Janice Dukes, is a retired faculty member from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods...
Belonging with the Sisters of Providence: Providence Associate Marilyn Rausch
...grandmother, I am awed by the simple love and the potential that those lives embody. Being with them allows me to share the gifts that I have been given with them, hopefully imprinting the “charism of Providence” in their hearts. At St. Michael’s, I am a member of the Spiritual Life Commission, train the lectors and Eucharistic ministers, and participate in the bereavement committee (prayer shawls, mercy meals). After our Lenten ecumenical prayer with three other local churches, we decided...
What are you reading these days?
...you might be inspired and discover new ways to make this world a better place. Recently, the director of Mary’s Pence, Katherine Wojtan, sent us a 2015 summer reading list “to increase our understanding and empathy for injustices facing our local and global communities. Consider requesting some of these books if they are not already available in your public library. The following descriptions are Katherine’s: “The books in the first section are about the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement by providing...
Reflecting on the amazing life of Sister Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN: Martyr of the Amazon
...life. Her work with the Pastoral Land Commission work, an organization of the Catholic Church that fights for the rights of rural workers and peasants, and defends land reforms in Brazil, was seen as a serious threat. Her death came less than a week after meeting with the country’s human rights officials about threats to local farmers from loggers and landowners. At Dorothy’s funeral, one settler remarked, “It’s all right, Sister Dorothy. We’re not burying you. We’re planting a seed.”...
Justice for Las 17
...were eventually found guilty of aggravated homicide. El Salvador has very strict laws regarding abortion and there appears to be confusion as to what miscarriages or stillbirths are. However, “Providence, that so far has never failed us,” said Sister Kathleen, is at work. There is a local group of women and men in El Salvador, including a small group of lawyers, and international partners, organizing to free these women. Hopefully, the telling of their stories to all who will listen...