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No time for despair: climate change reality
...hotter. And he’s as positive as ever about our odds of doing so. Our work focuses on three questions: Why must we change? Can we change? Will we change? So, why must we change? Drought, floods, fires, extreme weather, uninhabitable places, rising sea levels, species extinction, refugees, disease, food insecurity, inescapable heat … I could go on. Virtually nothing that we know about Earth is untouched by climate change. And no one. Here in the Midwest of the U.S., 2017...
Rainy day on and off the farm
...the show, which also includes showmanship. Austin (in the jumping photo) is with White Violet Center alpaca Wynne. The other action shot is 4-Her Maddison with WVC alpaca Mandy. The last photo is of 4-Her Maya with WVC alpaca Benny. The rainy weather also meant this wonderful group of interns could spend the morning at the fair to support the young alpaca handlers! That’s Ezra, Alexis, Julia, Sasha, Becca and Elaine! Also, let’s shine a light on Providence Associate Tracy...
Volunteers help the Woods run smoothly
...second north hall by the Church of the Immaculate Conception,” Sister Rose Ann said. “This saved us from having to install new windows in that area to keep out the draft and cold weather. He has also done several projects in O’Shaughnessy Dining Room — including installing wheels on all the tables — repaired and painted columns and more. Portraying some of the first inhabitants of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are, from left, Sisters Rosemary Nudd and Ann Casper, Volunteer Carl Bender,...
2017 reflection for Foundation Day
...on an old white horse to visit the sick in weather which no doctor would brave, and many a dying child received Baptism from her hands.” From the fictional diary of Sister Olympiad Boyer. Written from the sisters’ one room in the Thralls Farmhouse. I can’t sleep. You would think given all the perils of travel we experienced today that I would just fall upon my bed and sleep like a log. But I am worried about Sister Basilide. She...
Breathing time on this organic farm
...take everything off because it’s warm and humid in the greenhouse. And it’s green everywhere. “You pick up the water wand and tell the plants they’ll be able to play outside soon.” Looking toward spring Due to the uncertainty of the weather, it’s all hurry up and wait in the spring. The ground is too frozen or too muddy. Then there’s the times when there is more work than people to do the work. “Spring and summer is just go,...
Celebrating the Feast of Saint Francis
...the Canticle, in which he referred to the sun, wind, air, and fire as his brothers, and to the moon, stars, earth, water, and death as his sisters. I can’t help but wonder: What if every one of us who inhabit Earth had the same reverence for creation that Francis exhibited? Would the climate change issues be so critical? Would catastrophic weather events be so prevalent? Would our oceans be rife with plastic? I think Saint Francis would be right...
Advent 2018: So many possibilities in the waiting
...parts that may have been more challenging, times when waiting must have been painful? We haven’t been told any stories about Mary and Joseph’s long journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem — an eight-day walk of approximately 100 miles. Scripture scholars suspect the couple traveled in a caravan for safety’s sake, but this is speculation. We have no idea about the census process itself — maybe waiting in long lines, maybe waiting for relief from hunger, bad weather, maybe waiting in...
Sister John Mary Rifner
...that then, but I’m sure they were drooling at the thought. “The marching band also practiced at 5 p.m., in a field very near the convent and, when the weather was warm enough to have the chapel windows open, we prayed to the tune of the Northwestern fight song.” Martha Ann relayed one of her favorite anecdotes. When John Mary taught first grade, she was trying to explain the Trinity, using the traditional three-leaf shamrock approach. Then, she had a...
Sister Helen Vinton brings hope in an unsteady environment
...is of course the increase in both the frequency and the intensity of natural disasters like storms and flooding. The Louisiana coast is eroding at an alarming rate, losing area roughly the size of a football field every hour. Every hour!” Even a climate-change-induced disaster in other parts of the country, Sister Helen says, can have an impact on Louisiana. Water from the extreme weather and flooding in the Midwest travels down the Mississippi River, bringing flood potential to Louisiana....
Wisdom and the future of religious life
...be lived in the future doesn’t keep us from believing that it will. Wisdom and change Our Congregation has wisdom figures adept in the art of change. Many Sisters of Providence experienced the whirlwind of change that Vatican Council II created. How did they weather the changes, even embrace them? What can we learn from them? Two sisters share their experiences of living into drastic change. “They were hard days. I prayed and prayed; then it dawned on me I...
Sister Mary Adrian Jaroch
...to patients, and her kindness and gratitude to me for helping out.” Brother Matthew Zemel of the Society of the Divine Word, who has been a friend for 30-plus years and is with us today, spoke of Mary Adrian’s ministry at their health care residence in the late 1980s. “If a nursing employee could not come to work because of car trouble, Mary Adrian would go and get the individual and bring them to work. If the weather was bad...
Call to Action: Write Opinion Editorials for local media outlets
...related to the issue you care about. Can you apply universal values like justice, compassion, or equity, and Make an ask. As you conclude your story, transition into your request for support (e.g., and that’s why I hope you’ll co-sponsor S. 1234). Next, decide on the focus of your story. Will you focus on the impact of weather abnormalities on your local community? Will you focus on the health needs that arise from pollution? Will you write about the impact...