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Creighton Students Volunteer at the Farm
Alternative break groups from Creighton University have volunteered at the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, for many years. The Nebraska based Jesuit university has similar values to that of the Sisters of Providence and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College: Service, justice and academic excellence. The White Violet Center for Eco-Justice Farm seemed a perfect place for students to learn about sustainability and get their hands dirty in the garden. University of Creighton students on their alternative break volunteering for Providence...
It’s All Connected
...habitat, especially for native bees, which often aren’t colony based, but rather solitary. They will literally sleep in flowers overnight, then get up the next morning to do great work. Also, some pollinators, most notably wasps, are also beneficial in that they prey and parasitize bugs that are harmful to our crops. As ever, it’s all connected. We can, and should, live in harmony and symbiosis with pollinators. That’s how agriculture can succeed, long term. That’s part of true “sustainability.”...
Season of Creation 2022: Eco-Spirituality
...relationship with all of creation.” As members of one sacred Earth community, we, the Providence Community, have committed ourselves individually and communally to care for our resources and to make decisions regarding our current and future use as we seek to balance our individual and communal economic needs with the sustainability needs of Earth community. To do this, we will provide educational opportunities and share our own lived experiences, both individually and communally, in our efforts to live in right...
2022 Season of Creation: Love of Creation Impels Us!
...build ecological economies, adopt simple lifestyles, promote ecological education, interiorize ecological spirituality, and engage in community action and advocacy. We do this as we re-commit to the LSAP Commitment Statement proclaimed during our 2021 Chapter by General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski. We, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, and our wider Providence community, publicly commit to join the worldwide Catholic community in responding to Pope Francis’ appeal to participate in a seven-year journey toward sustainability and integral ecology...
Foundation Day and our French connection
...as to how are we to carry on in the footsteps of Mother Theodore Guerin? Perhaps, now is the time to become more unified in our efforts with our Sisters in Ruillé as witnesses of diversity and oneness, witnesses of collaboration and sustainability, and witnesses of the Mission of Religious Life. We have a shared history and charism which have made a profound difference in the world. Do we dare to embrace the courage which led Mother Theodore and her...
Volunteer college students #Represent @theWoods!
...people … everyone comes here with different stories. I enjoy talking to them.” In what free time Hunter has, he likes to workout and train for the SMWC football team and play video games. When he graduates, he would like to open his own business or be a sports trainer. ISU Student Volunteer Emma ISU student Emma A junior at Indiana State University (ISU) studying geography and sustainability, Emma learned about White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, a ministry of the...
Remembering Pope Francis: Champion of the poor, the marginalized and the environment
...our very relationship with each other and with Earth. In 2020, we and our wider Providence Community publicly committed to joining the worldwide Catholic community in responding to Pope Francis’ appeal to participate in a seven-year journey toward sustainability and integral ecology by developing a Laudato Si’ Action Platform. Perhaps just as remarkable has been Pope Francis’s insistence that we become a synodal church. From the beginning, Pope Francis has seen the Synod on Synodality, first convened in October 2021,...
Gifts to Foley Legacy Fund support the underserved, SP mission
...a much-needed social worker at the school. When so many structures and programs are set in motion, over the years, sustainability becomes important. The Foley Legacy Fund is a quasi-endowment. It was established with a two-fold purpose: to provide financial support to ministries that provide direct service to the economically poor and underserved and to Congregational ministries that further the mission of the Sisters of Providence at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and elsewhere. Funds for Congregational ministries may be used to provide...
Sister Helen Vinton (formerly Sister Helen Jean)
...develop along the way.” After leaving Ladywood-St. Agnes, Helen spent five years with the Rural Life Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, where she did research and wrote policy. This was probably somewhat of an “internship,” if you will, for her more than 40 years ministering at the Southern Mutual Help Association in New Iberia, Louisiana. Her titles changed considerably through the years but the focus was always on the sugarcane plantation farmworkers in a role of advocacy, sustainability, resource development...
Ecological Economics
...that the economy is a sub-system of human society, which itself is embedded within the biosphere — our common home. It is based on sustainability, equity and justice. As opposed to our current economic system dependent on efficiency and growth, exploitation of resources and control of wealth. Our Examples In the Litany of Nonviolence our Providence Community prays: “Deliver us from the violence of exploitation and control; grant us the desire and the strength to act responsibly in the cycle...
Earth Day Festival 2025
...out-and-about for barnyard visits. Please see below for this year’s entertainment, vendors and exhibitors. Educational Exhibitors and Entertainment ISU Office of Sustainability Moonglade Animal Adventures Indiana DNR Division of Forestry Vigo County Public Library Terre Haute Children’s Museum Wabash Valley Herb Society International Crane Foundation reThink, Inc. League of Women Voters of Vigo County Parke Trails Alliance Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter Owen-Putnam Friends of the Forest Vigo County Soil and Water Conservation District Vigo Invasives Management SMWC Student Counseling Center...
Alpaca Yoga
April 12, 2025 at 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT White Violet Farm Alpacas barn Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876 White Violet Center for Eco-Justice 812-535-2930 View Facilitator Website Sisters of Providence Free Join us for yoga in the pasture with our alpacas and Shannon Hamilton, Athletic Director at SMWC and certified Yoga Instructor at Common Ground in Terre Haute. This event is part of our collaboration with the Department of Sustainability at Indiana State University to celebrate the Earth (throughout)...