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Three Sisters of Providence to stand trial Jan. 27 for crossing government line during non-violent protest
...“A passion for justice was instilled in me by my father who, along with four fellow employees, was responsible for getting a union organized at International Harvester Company in Fort Wayne in the late 1930s,” said Sister Rita Clare. “I crossed the line as a statement of non-violent dissent against the training of torture techniques, and the terrorism of one’s own people which is part of the curriculum at the SOA/WHISC. I acted in solidarity with the victims of violence...
Sister Ann Sullivan
...Congregation. She grew up in the small farming community of Henderson Grove, Ill., just outside Galesburg. The family farm was just that, a family farm. Many relatives lived nearby; some lived together. The harvest sustained the family and the animals for the coming year. As soon as young Ann was old enough to be carried around, her family had her outside connecting with everything on the farm. After Sunday Mass, it was common for the family to gather for breakfast....
Connecting with Creation
...will be moved to the gardens and harvested throughout the growing season for the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. CSA shareholders pay up front for their vegetables, fruit, honey and value-added products and pick them up either weekly or every other week. Produce is also sold at the Downtown Terre Haute Farmers’ Market, prepared by the Sisters of Providence Food Services staff for the dining rooms and donated to local food pantries and homeless shelters. The amount of fresh produce...
Sister Mary Montgomery
...family. We made our own fun. I loved playing outside in the back yard. We had a big garden and one of our sports was throwing dirt clods at each other. We made forts in the corn crib. We had our cows. We grew up on a farm, a 40-acre farm. It was a hobby for my dad, but also it supplemented our income and our family well-being. Part of our family activity at harvest time was that you would...
Life is changed … not ended
Late autumn at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. It is autumn and the earth reminds us that life is full of changes. Sometimes we resist change with an “Oh, no!” At other times, we welcome it with “At last!” In the cycle of life, as the seasons change, each one has lessons to teach. Autumn, in all its beauty and decline, reminds us that this is a time to harvest our blessings in a spirit of thanksgiving, as well as a time...
Providence prayers for the journey of Advent
...her visions of Providence and comforted her sisters even in the midst of severe setbacks: storms at sea, fires that destroyed their barns and harvest, increasingly ill health, excommunication by a bishop, and deaths of loved ones. She reminded her Providence community: “You will see many things in new lights if you give the Holy Spirit free access to your minds and hearts.” Ponder: What are my visions? How do I comfort others and myself in the midst of setbacks?...
Rwanda: Rising from the ashes
...the Hutus pulled out, we are told that the killers cut the power lines, contaminated the water supplies, torched schools and hospitals and bombed bridges and roads. They even poisoned the emergency seed supply to destroy the next year’s harvest. In “Led by Faith …,” she shares her own intense faith journey after the genocide and how her country responded to the challenges of such an overwhelming and devastating reality. In 1998, Ilibagiza moved to the United States. Visiting her...
Care of Earth attracts new members
Tracey Horan, who recently entered the Sisters of Providence as a postulant, got to know the sisters while serving as an intern at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice in 2012, as shown here. Who would think that forest and cropland, organic vegetables, harvesting honey and a herd of alpacas could bring young women closer to God and to life as women religious? Yet that’s exactly what’s happening at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (WVC), a ministry of the Sisters of...
Love in action at Providence in the Desert
...classes to immigrant laborers such as these field workers, shown here harvesting peppers a few minutes drive from the sisters’ house. It’s about leaving a much-earned doze in front of the TV at the end of a busy day to take a phone call. It’s about still offering your full, loving presence to the person on the other end of the phone. It is about being Church. It is about bringing God’s presence to people struggling to improve their lives....
Hope through education in the desert
...with them to class, like this little photo bomber in Sister Loretta’s class at Sunbird Trailer park in Thermal. Who says learning English has to be a chore? Fun personalities keep teacher Sister Lorretta Picucci, left, on her toes in this more advanced class. These hands have spent many hours laboring. Now they pick up a school book to learn a new language. After long hours in the hot California sun harvesting crops, students come to learn the English language....
Sister Teresa Costello: Love for learning and a healing touch
...she ministers in healing touch among the infirm sisters at Providence Health Care at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. “I love working with the sisters and other elders in health care. I enjoy learning from them as they share with me as I give them a shoulder massage or rub their hands,” she said. “It is comforting to them.” Her second volunteer ministry is sorting vegetables from the harvest for the Community Supported Agriculture program at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice at Saint...
From uncomfortable to comfortable
...Saturday morning. Bianca said she is glad she made the choice to keep learning during her break from classes. “It’s more fulfilling learning about the justice issues rather than being at home watching Netflix,” she said. Thank you to these Creighton University students for spending their fall break giving service at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice! Their week included weeding in the USDA certified organic gardens, harvesting vegetables, washing and bagging produce, tearing out tomato cages, putting mulch on strawberry...