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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...
Sisters Lucy and Mary Fran cook up a good time
Sisters of Providence Lucy Nolan, left, and Mary Frances Keusal, right, volunteer preparing and serving food for shoppers and volunteers at the 2012 rummage sale for Providence Family Services in Chicago. You can get in on the action, and some great food, at this year’s sale next weekend. Looking for some great homemade pulled pork and coleslaw? Better yet, how about homemade pulled pork painstakingly slow-cooked by two Sisters of Providence? Look no further than the annual rummage sale to...
A fresh connection
...“enriches the connection communities have with fresh, healthy food and local food producers by changing food purchasing and education practices at schools and preschools.” According to regulations under the United States Department of Agriculture, students are required to be served six ounces of either fruit or vegetables during every lunch period. Now, through the agreement with WVC, students at St. Patrick’s have the choice of either the vegetables served through the regular meal or the fresh WVC vegetables. Voll said...
Thirty Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...Ladywood (1960-67), Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Cook (1967-78), Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Maintenance Coordinator/Saga Food Service Liaison (1978-86), and Noblesville: Food Service Director for Marriott Corporation, Riverview Hospital (1988-89). Sister Catherine has also ministered in Missouri, Illinois and Florida. Sister Josephine Paolinelli is a native of Chicago. Currently, she ministers as a volunteer at Gottlieb Hospital, Melrose Park, Ill. Sister Josephine, formerly Sister Louise Joseph, entered the Congregation on Feb. 2, 1956, from St. Ferdinand, Chicago. She professed perpetual vows on Aug. 15, 1963....
Simbang Gabi the Terre Haute way!
...Tagalog, formal dress shirts and held their parish’s respective Parol — star-shaped lantern. Worshippers used the lantern to light their way to church early in the morning and it is a symbol of the Star of Bethlehem. The feast After Mass, Filipinos love to celebrate with a big feast that could feed a whole town and have leftover food to take home for future meals in the week. Various foods include pancit (noodles), lumpia (egg rolls), lechon (roasted pig), various...
Political Engagement Committee: Our Platform
...and understand their stances related to climate change and how they propose to move us forward as a local, state, national and global community, and Engage candidates and current leaders in discussion, likely virtually at this time, about policies related to global climate change via letters to the editor, web and telephone conversations, and other forums. Platform Tenets We support the Green New Deal, We support placing a price on carbon, We support community resilience and livability, We support caring...
The Sisters of Providence mission: living the Gospel today
...SP, (3rd and 4th from left), pray for successful fundraising for their new building which will allow them to better serve the elderly and disabled in their area. In Taiwan, Miracle Home provides eldercare, meals on wheels, and respite care for caregivers. Our Providence Food Pantry and The Connecting Link in West Terre Haute provides food and access to services for our closest neighbors in need. Here at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Providence Spirituality and Conference Center helps to meet the needs...
Sister Adele Beacham (formerly Sister Joseph Therese)
...1998 at age 70 and continued as volunteer in Liturgy and Wellness ministries and as Minister of Care. Her justice outreach ministries included Providence Food Pantry, a member of a local Pax Christi group and ministry to women at the state prison in Rockville, where she visited for 18 years, long enough to see two of the women she visited finally released. She also served for years as tutor in English pronunciation for Dominican Sisters from Vietnam studying at SMWC....
Sister Regis McNulty
A reading from Matthew 14:13-21 When Jesus disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with compassion for them, and he cured their sick. When it was evening, the disciples approached him and said, “This is a deserted place and it is already late; dismiss the crowds so that they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves.” Jesus said to them, “There is no need for them to go away; give them some food yourselves.”...
SMWC honors legacy of Sister Barbara Doherty
...Studies in 1990. ‘Multiple food stations’ The new dining center — which will seat approximately 200 people — will be opened in the fall of 2021. King added the center will offer food to students throughout the day. “We will also offer a market within the dining center and this will accommodate students who want a snack after the dining center is closed,” she said. “Multiple food stations will provide a variety as well as accommodation of food allergies and...
Welcoming our 2021 WVC Summer Interns!
...ever-chancing garden while attending Woods Day Care/Pre-School … At IU, I have taken comprehensive water resource, management and environmental courses to strengthen my knowledge in these fields. “Nature has its own movement, and to this day, I am still trying to grasp its delicate dance. I am actively engaged in two sustainability clubs on campus, as well as volunteer at Mother Hubbard’s Cubbard, where eliminating food barriers is the principal value of the nonprofit food pantry. This internship at WVC...
Redecorating our Guest Room
...that will improve environmental health and quality for pollinator and wildlife habitat. We took it out of crop production and planted all manner of grasses, forbs, and perennial and annual flowers like milkweed, black-eyed Susan’s, and rattlesnake master. This mixture mimics the classic Indiana prairie of old and gives shelter and food to a group of critters vital to our food supply. You’ll find these fields north of the north alpaca pasture wrapping around the Nature Trail all the way...