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The blessing of justice seekers
The blessing of those who speak out against unjust practices and violence The blessing of our communities coming together in time of distress The blessing of the human heart that pours out love The blessing of the human spirit that guides us into higher consciousness The blessing of the human mind that when connected to the human heart can fulfill the promises of God’s Love, Mercy and Justice for ALL The blessing of the ideal heaven that we are capable...
Heber to attend Al Gore’s climate change training
Lorrie Heber has been selected to attend Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training in Denver. One email changed the course of March 2017 for the director of White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, Lorrie Heber. Recently, Lorrie received an email from Climate Reality Project, which described the organization’s upcoming Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training. The organization was founded by former Vice President Al Gore. The seminar, which will take place March 2-4 in Denver, Colorado, intrigued Lorrie so much that...
University of Scranton: Week of service 2019
This May, students from The University of Scranton, a Catholic and Jesuit university in Pennsylvania, spent a week of service with the Sisters of Providence. During their time at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice they weeded, mulched and planted. They also did alpaca and chicken chores. They even got to experience the birth of a cria who was named Providence Ignatius in celebration of our ongoing relationship with Jesuit schools. Students also had the opportunity to volunteer at Providence Food...
Sister Ellen Cunningham (formerly Sister Michael Aquinas)
...her friends, the academic communities of which she was a part – in particular her much loved Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College – students, staff, faculty, administration and alums. No one can deny that Ellen had a passionate and deep relationship with all creation and with all Earth’s citizens. She was persistent in her pursuit of justice. Let’s take a less global and more personal look at Ellen. About friendship and relationships A couple of Ellen’s friends offered me some verbal images...
Explore life as a Catholic Sister with the Sisters of Providence
...Faithfulness to prayer and total trust in Providence, A lived legacy of love, mercy and justice from foundress Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, A close-knit community that has called Saint Mary-of-the-Woods home since 1840, A long history of standing up for justice, and Ministries that respond to current needs, including serving at the U.S./Mexico border, teaching, serving in the medical field, in social justice arenas and more. Learn more or sign up here or contact Sister Joni at 361-500-9505 or jluna@spsmw.org....
Sisters of Providence provide hope and healing in a broken world
...healing. And they took action. The workshop they organized helped me feel part of a community where I could feel safe and comfortable, where very difficult issues could be explored and discussed in a most respectful manner. I felt a glimmer of hope that I am holding onto even today. Our criminal justice system has turned into a penal system with often draconian sentencing. It metes out cruel and unusual punishment, trying juveniles as adults, allowing sexual abuse of women...
Woods Core Class brings students, sisters together
...our grounds. Because of Covid-19, this year they viewed Sisters of Providence artifacts in their classroom rather than in the Archives Department. Facilitating their viewing of these artifacts, I told them stories from our early history. I shared with them information about our spirituality, our current ministries, justice efforts and values. I answered their questions about religious life and shared my personal experience of this life. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College students in a previous year’s Woods Core 100 class tour White...
O Antiphon – O Dayspring come shine on us
...Our challenge is to recognize and respond to Christmas gifts and lights as reminders of the deeper reality of salvation. As did Israel, many sit in the darkness of poverty, disease, war, injustice and the shadow of death. Even with that reality around us, Jesus says that we are to be light to the world, and to let that light shine. For this we must seek the Rising Dawn, the Sun of Justice, to do what he came to do:...
A Journey in Love, Mercy and Justice
The cover of the pictorial history shows the steeple of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. A Journey in Love, Mercy and Justice: a pictorial history of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods celebrating 150 years of service among the people of God is now available online! This pictorial history was published in 1989. The editor was Sister Mary Roger Madden and the designer was Sister Dawn Tomaszewski.
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Explore life as a Catholic Sister
...Faithfulness to prayer and total trust in Providence, A lived legacy of love, mercy and justice from foundress Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, A close-knit community that has called Saint Mary-of-the-Woods home since 1840, A long history of standing up for justice, and Ministries that respond to current needs, including serving at the U.S./Mexico border, teaching, serving in the medical field, in social justice arenas and more. Learn more or sign up here or contact Sister Joni at 361-500-9505 or jluna@spsmw.org....
Newsnotes
...mission in China. You can pick up a free copy of the book at Linden Leaf Gifts at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Or order it online at LindenLeafGifts.com and use coupon code ODDS19 and you will only pay shipping. Contact Diane Weidenbenner at 812-535-2802 or dweidenb@spsmw.org to learn more or join a book study group. Vowed for love, mercy, justice Sister Emily TeKolste shows off her cross as a newly professed Sister of Providence after professing her first vows on Sunday, June...
Christmas Fun at the Woods 2022
...stations are always a big hit Face Painting and Tattoo stations are always a big hit with Sister Norene Wu. The Grinch and volunteer NaKea Anderson The Grinch and Providence Teen Ministry The Grinch made his appearance in the Activity Room. Nativity Dress up room Pinecone station at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice Pinecone station at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice Sing along station Sister Patricia Wallace reading Christmas Stories. White Violet Center for Eco-Justice brought out a few alpacas...