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Sister Catherine White
...California crew, often hosting gatherings at her home in San Bernardino. And Cathy loved nature. She could identify trees and signs of animal habitat. Pass any farmer’s field and she would tell what was growing in the field and when it would be ready for harvest. Cathy was raised on a dairy farm. She loved cows. She could tell you all the different breeds. As I sat in my chair while she was dying, I thought ‘Well, Cathy, I think...
Earth Day Every Day: Follow the cabbage
...steps involved in growing veggies. It all starts with a seed So much goes into producing food. It takes numerous hands to grow a crop, protect it against insects, disease and weed pressure, harvest it, clean and pack it, transport it for sale, store it and maintain it on a sales floor so it stays as fresh as possible before making its way into your cart and into your home. Before farmers can even plant a crop, they have to...
June 13, 2021: Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
...ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.” He said, “To what shall we compare the reign of God, or what parable can we use for it? It is like a mustard see that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the...
One Good Day: Thoughts on Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving gives me mixed emotions. Yes, it is a time of joy, a celebration of the Plymouth Colony’s first successful harvest. They would never have survived without the help of the Wampanoag (which translates to “People of the First Light”), who showed them how and when to plant and reap the foods that would sustain them through their second winter in America. (During the first terrible winter, nearly half of them died.) But what happened to the Wampanoag tribe after...
The Season of Creation 2022: Meatless Mondays and More
...etc. Some Receiving might be thanking others for meals prepared for us, enjoying better health from changes in our diet, and enjoying a cleaner climate thanks to eating less meat and more plant-based foods. Pray, reflect, act: Pray and reflect on the gift of food. Pray for those who plant it, harvest it, transport it, stock it in stores, prepare it, serve it and especially for those who don’t have enough healthy food. Try going with Meatless Mondays, or choose...
National Migration Week – Day 6
...other. Love is the ultimate gift of our selves to others. When we stop giving, we stop loving, when we stop loving, we stop growing, and unless we grow we will never attain personal fulfillment; we will never open out to receive the life of God. It is through love we encounter God.” Accompany – Saint Oscar Romero (November 26, 1978) “Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton,...
Foundation Day and our French connection
...as laborers into the harvest; to sow peace…and love, mercy, justice; to be sharers of education and of care for the sick poor; to be witnesses to the power of God’s Providence. Today I would invite us to celebrate another piece of our story — the foundation on which our foundation is based. Today let us remember the faithfulness to the call of the Gospel by the Sisters of Providence of Ruillé-sur-Loir, France. It was their response to the Bishop...
A new way to raise consciousness and funds to combat climate change
...of energy. White Violet Center for Eco-Justice interns harvest pumpkins. We hope this stewardship will bring many benefits to the community and the planet. At the very least, it will make us each more aware of how individual choices affect the vitality of the planet and help us to acquire some funds to mitigate the effects of climate change. Are you interested in helping us address climate issues by “taxing” your own travel? Visit cathcap.org/contribute/ and search for Sisters of...
Growing the gift of flowers
...enjoy. If you’re ever around when Flower and Fiber Coordinator Candace Minster is putting bouquets together after a harvest, it’s not unusual to hear her “oohing and aahing” as she’s inspecting each blossom. She spends a lot of time planning and preparing for the day when she gets to see her vision come to fruition. Flowers are sold in our White Violet Farm Store and at our booth at the Terre Haute Farmers Market on Saturdays. It’s always so rewarding...
HOPE Fall 2023 — Touched by the Woods
...at the Woods “Growing vegetables is pretty incredible,” say White Violet Intern Lily Seals. “I get to experience this from start to finish. After we harvest it really makes me proud to realize that I grew this.” Being a Providence Associate has made a difference We asked several of our Providence Associates to share how being an associate has made a difference in their lives. Read here as they share how they have been touched by the Community and the...
‘We’re all grateful for your CONNECTION’
...Commitment We, too, can be a community of radical grace and acceptance. In fact, given the events of just this past week, I would daresay we must work together to become that community. The world needs us for this — to be the seeds, to be the sowers of a harvest of justice. We Sisters of Providence joined our voices with those of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in response to the situation in Gaza. We committed ourselves and...
Sister Lucille Nolan (formerly Sister Mary Lucille)
A reading from the Prophet Isaiah – part of one of the readings for the Nativity of the Lord: “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; Upon those who lived in a land of gloom a light has shone. You have brought them abundant joy and great rejoicing; They rejoice before you as people rejoice at harvest, as they exult when dividing the spoils. For the yoke that burdened them, the pole on their shoulder, the...