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2025 Spring Plant Sale
...and Saturday, May 3, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice Greenhouse, located off Pomeroy Avenue at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Come early for the best selection. Cash and credit cards accepted. Among our large selection of organically grown plants, started lovingly in our greenhouse, you will find: Vegetables Cabbage Chard Cucumber Eggplant Kale Onions Sweet Peppers Hot Peppers Tomatoes (over 20 varieties) Zucchini Flowers & Herbs Bachelor Buttons Basil Basketflower Black Eyed Susans Calendula Chamomile Cilantro Dahlias...
Saint Mother Theodore: a humble servant of God
...to the Carmelites. Sister St. Theodore, her given name as a Sister of Providence, accepted with humility her assignments. Even so when they were difficult, providentially acquiring new knowledge along the way that would benefit her in God’s plans for her future. Her reassignment from a successful mission in Rennes to the impoverished village of Soulaines, France, allowed her to learn basic healing skills through the use of herbs, invaluable in her as-then unknown future mission to America. Providence Associates...
The Sisters of Providence mission: living the Gospel today
...Sisters of Providence. Mother Theodore also created “free schools” for those who could not afford to pay for their education. And she learned how to use various herbs to make medicines which she dispensed to the sick. Over the past 180+ years, the Sisters of Providence have continually asked themselves: “To whom and to what are we being called at this time in history? Who are ‘the miserable’ in the world today? Who are the vulnerable most in need of...
Season of Creation 2022: Celebrating the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi
...You, my Lord, through Sister Water, which is very useful and humble and precious and chaste. Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom you light the night and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong. Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Mother Earth, who sustains us and governs us and who produces varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs. Praised be You, my Lord, through those who give pardon for Your love, and bear...
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Elizabeth Gentry!
Carrots, ginger, tomatoes, beets, flowers and various types of lettuce. It’s a Thursday just before noon and volunteer Elizabeth Gentry is looking over growing plants in one of the high tunnels at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (WVC), a ministry of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The temperature is hovering in the mid-80s and the sun is shining. Elizabeth Gentry As Elizabeth is keeping an eye on these growing herbs and vegetables, she is also musing about cucumbers....
The Other Five: A brief look at the lives of the sisters who came from France in 1840 with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...neighbors, she learned the qualities of herbs. She was known for riding a white horse and “braving the perils of bad roads and inclement weather” on her visits with settlers. She served as Saint Mother Theodore’s caregiver during the foundress’s many illnesses. On Jan. 3, 1893, she fell ill with pneumonia and died on Jan. 22. Sister St. Liguori Tiercin (Louise Tiercin): She was the youngest of the sisters to accompany Saint Mother Theodore to the United States. She was...
White Violet Wednesday: The story behind our cucumbers
...it dies in a day or two. This means we won’t get to enjoy as long a harvest as we have in years’ past. Stop by the Farm Store at White Violet for cucumbers as well as a variety of other certified organic vegetables and herbs. The store is open Monday through Friday from 11-6 and Saturdays and Sundays from 10-3. You can also find us Saturdays from 8-12 at the Terre Haute Farmers Market at the Meadows Shopping Center....
The Easter Triduum: celebrating our salvation story
...seek?” the questioners fall to the ground in His Presence. God has chosen to die and share in all human suffering and show us how to bring life out of that which is death dealing! Like Him, we intercede for the world’s needs. Then we venerate the instrument of our salvation. A cross, the first century instrument of capital punishment! One parish I attended placed the cross on a beautiful red carpet. The cross rested on a pillow, with herbs...
An unforgettable moment
...the “wild, wild west,” by learning to heal people with herbs, by befriending the influential people from the nearest villages, by identifying a need and stepping up to the task at hand. The grandeur of her humility and hard work is breathtaking and hard to process. On a personal note, she and I share quite a few life experiences; the most significant one for me is probably being an immigrant. I can relate to her experience. Although I’m not religious,...
Newsnotes HOPE summer 2017
...opened to the public on April 22. This Saint Mary-of-the-Woods store carries farm-based and food-based merchandise reflecting the farming and teaching ministry. Depending on the time of year, items for sale include organic produce grown at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, apple cider, farm fresh eggs, flower and herb bedding plants, dried and fresh herbs, and sourdough and dairy starter cultures. Items from local producers might include maple syrup, honey, cheese, frozen meat and fruit pie filling. For those in the Terre Haute...
Blessing a summer harvest prayer ritual
...delicious apple pies. This season marks the wealth of Earth. Let us connect ourselves to this wheel of life. Place symbols of the summer harvest—wheat, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, peaches, basil, mint, other herbs, bread and lemonade—in front of you or in the center of a circle. Reading: “The Garden is Rich with Diversity,” Chinook Psalter, from Earth Prayers, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, ©1991. The garden is rich with diversity With plants of a hundred families In...
Sister Olympiade Boyer : a founding Sister of Providence
...caring for the livestock and for supervising the pork salting and curing. From her pioneer neighbors she learned the value of the herbs in the woods. The beams of her little log pharmacy were hung with carefully tied bunches waiting to be dispensed to the sick of the surrounding area. She was known in the area, as she accompanied or replaced Mother Theodore in errands of mercy around the village. She was a welcome figure to settlers, who long after...