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Come with me
...says, “Come with me.” Given that Ann works in the garden, cooks and occasionally helps with the fiber arts, my new job could be almost anything. Today it meant learning the arcane art of needle felting. Last week, “come with me” meant holding a chicken in my lap so Dave didn’t have to drive the big white pick-up truck and hold the chicken at the same time. I’m fairly sure he was joking. I hope. Many hands are involved in...
Breathing time on this organic farm
Ann Testa uses salad spinner to clean organic arugula grown at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. The small organic farm at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods packs a big punch in the way of educational and service opportunities. In fact, that’s how Ann Testa came to White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. She was an intern and AmeriCorps volunteer before becoming a full-time staff member. Now she’s training and working alongside interns and volunteers in the USDA certified organic gardens, alpaca pastures, fiber rooms, and kitchen....
Have you Herd? Reflections with Madison
...and in the world in the twenty plus years he was with us. He was born on a Tuesday in May in 2002, and despite the unusually sullen weather that day, people remember his fiber shone like the sun from the beginning with lots of curls. Madison was doted on from his very first moments and had a larger than life personality. He was the first son of Providence Brittany, who was herself the first baby born at White Violet,...
Farmers and Their Flocks: Braving the Elements Year-Round
When the weather turns bitterly cold or unbearably hot, most of us find comfort indoors. However, for our White Violet Center farmers and animal care team—there’s no such thing as a day off. Their steadfast commitment ensures animals are well cared for, regardless of the weather conditions. Alpacas, with their thick fleece, are well-equipped to handle cold weather, but older members of the herd often need extra help. “While the alpacas do have all that fiber to keep them warm,...
Sister Agnes Clare Buckley
...the surgery, and at her death, the longest-living heart transplant survivor. Her heart problems were compounded by a history of severe asthma and being prone to pneumonia and congestive heart failure. She suffered cardiac arrest in 1988 and had an excruciating and challenging wait-period of more than a year before receiving her new heart, that of a 30-year-old woman. No wonder that she exclaimed just a few days after surgery, “I haven’t felt this good in 15 years! It’s a...
The heart of the matter: getting in touch with the Gospel of love
...you my own heart. For future, it is by this heart that you must live and act in the world.” “It is by this heart that you must live and act in the world.” In touch with the heart of God How do we lean back into the Heart of Christ/the Heart of the Universe? A number of contemporary authors point the way. Our journey invites us to consider how Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Berry and Ilia Delio have described...
Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...education from Indiana State University. Her ministries include: * Norwood Park, Ill.: Teacher, Immaculate Conception (1952-56), * Jasper, Ind.: Teacher, Holy Family (1956-57), * Vincennes, Ind.: Teacher, St. Francis Xavier (1957-63), * Indianapolis: Principal, Immaculate Heart (1963-64), * Indianapolis: Teacher/Principal, Immaculate Heart (1964-69), * Indianapolis: Superior Principal, Immaculate Heart (1968-69), * Fort Wayne, Ind.: Teacher, St. Jude (1969-70), * Indianapolis: Principal, St. Luke (1973-75), * Indianapolis: Teacher, Nativity (1975-77), * Louisville: Hospital Chaplain, SS. Mary and Elizabeth Hospital (1978-97), *...
The Philosophy of Fair Trade
...in the US.” Shoppers recognizing certification more than doubled from 2019 to 2023 – 28 percent to 61 percent. Fair trade is directly connected to love, mercy, and justice. Providence Associate Joan Frisz, the guest on our JUSTus Podcast, is the Executive Director of Just Creations, a nonprofit, fair trade store in Louisville, Kentucky. Joan says that fair trade “provides us with sustainable opportunities to marginalized farmers and artisans in developing countries.” In 2013, Joan met Laxmi Maharjan, an artisan working...
Sister Eileen Dede (formerly Sister Anita Therese)
...Teacher, St. Patrick, Indianapolis (1951-53); Teacher, St. Malachy, Brownsburg (1955-57); Teacher, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis (1959-65); Teacher, Immaculate Heart, Indianapolis (1965-67); Principal, St. John, Vincennes (1967-68); Teacher/Principal, St. John, Vincennes (1968-69); Principal, St. John, Vincennes (1969-71); Teacher, St. Luke, Indianapolis (1971-73); Teacher, St. Thomas Aquinas, Indianapolis (1973-77); CPE, Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis (1977); Student Clinical Pastoral Education, St. Joseph Hospital, South Bend (1978-79); Teacher, Sacred Heart, Terre Haute (1983-84); Director of Pastoral Care, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (1984-90); Assistant Pastoral Associate,...
Auschwitz-Birkenau
...marked, a memorial to all the acts of kindness that prisoners showed to one another. Tearing at Your Heart The rooms of the personal effects of the our brothers and sisters who were murdered lined the walls. Mountains of shoes — baby shoes that tear at your heart, eye glasses, canes, crutches, prosthetics, Jewish prayer shawls. I could not take photos. It seemed an invasion of whatever was left of these people. The image that will stay with me forever...
Warning, this album may contain photos of sunbathing nuns
There’s a really neat photo album scrapbook that Sister Jean Fuqua has put together of St. Joseph Lake at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and its restoration over the past decades. In choosing photos for an article in the most recent issue of HOPE magazine on Sister Jean’s work revitalizing the lake area, I had the fun job of looking through this album. It shows the progress of the lake project. It shows people helping out in the restoration efforts. And it shows...
Oral history: Sister Barbara Ann Bluntzer
...were no troops nearby. And every year even through high school she attended camp for the entire summer. She loved it! There were friends and songs and art and dancing and roughing it and sharing and fun! The groundwork was being laid for a life devoted to appreciation of the arts and a love of sharing that with others. “If we have been nursed on great ideas, great experiences, great beauty and great awareness, life will have no limits.” –...