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The gift of being an “alpaca parent” brings year-round joy
...she visited Terre Haute in 2017. She had a great time petting him, talking to him, and learning more about him from a wonderful member of the White Violet staff. A short video that I recorded during our visit provides a wonderful memory of that special day! Mom always sent me an email describing the items she received. One year she wrote, “Included in the envelope is a photo of two alpacas kissing under the mistletoe — awwwww!” Being an...
Sister Mary Ann McCauley
...with Sister Rose Marita. We were integrating our school. There was a black school and a white school. There were the black Oblate Sisters of Providence and the white Sisters of Providence teaching in the same city. We were sure they were going to burn a cross in our yard when we integrated the school. We had some tough times down there. That was my most rewarding teaching experience. I went down there in 1964, so we were there when...
Intern life — part of a living ecosystem
White Violet Center for Eco-Justice Intern Jackie Schwenk planting peppers last spring. I was asked a while back to write a reflection on my internship, and it hit me today what I wanted to write about. As you drive into Saint Mary-of-the-Woods there is a quaint cemetery with hundreds of identical white tablet tombstones, but as you drive further you see tens of thousands of trees each full of diverse life. There are the stout maples and the bushy pines....
Sister Ann Kevin O’Connor
...elementary teacher and principal in several states (Indiana, Illinois, Texas, Missouri and California) for 34 years; service as support staff in schools, and for provincial and Congregation administrators and in Congregation departments at the Woods (the Mission Advancement office, the Office of Records, White Violet Center and Residential Services). There may be many former students of Ann Kevin’s “out there,” who felt about her teaching the same way as former sixth-grade student, Tom Gawne, now a retired teacher himself. Tom...
Connecting with Creation
...difficulty in adjusting to retirement also benefited from gardening in the greenhouses throughout the years. This is the first growing season for the new greenhouse that sits in the orchard, near the organically grown gardens. Today, the staff, sisters, volunteers and interns at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, a ministry of the Sisters of Providence, are planting for the first season in a new greenhouse made possible by generous donors last year. The vegetables grown organically in the current greenhouse...
New energy, focus for justice
...well, you will not be surprised by this list. The sisters’ bold commitment to environmental sustainability has been lived out through the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice and its programming over the past 20 years. The issue of human trafficking might bring back memories of the sisters’ involvement in a human trafficking awareness campaign leading up to Super Bowl 2012 in Indianapolis. Ministries like Providence in the Desert in Coachella, California, and Providence Family Services in Chicago, Illinois, have extended...
A doll named Susie, aka Sister Mary Rose
...in her life. So my mother prepared a white veil for her. The day I received the holy habit, Susie came to Providence [Hall] parlor and received her white veil also. The metal cross on her chaplet was raised to be even with the bottom of the beads. Her white cross and black veil were carefully put away until the time of her profession. Susie began to live my life with me. On January 23, 1953, my first profession day,...
Sister Cathy White
Current ministry: Safe Environment Coordinator for the Diocese of San Bernardino Years in the Congregation: 21 years Sometimes it takes a call even though “the call” already has been received. Once Cathy White had decided to act on her desire to join a religious congregation, she did what a lot of prospective women religious would do. She visited four congregations to experience first-hand what might await her. Confidently, she decided on the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and sent...
Voices to prevent abuse: Sisters Cathy White and Cathy Campbell
Sister Cathy White serves in the Office of Child and Youth Protection for the diocese of San Bernardino, Calif. Sister Cathy White tells the story of a girl who had been sexually abused. She told her mom about it. Her mom told her that she was lying — her uncle would never do that. “That child has no voice, and I have a pretty big one,” Sister Cathy said. “I continue in this ministry because I feel I can have...
A sister remembers working to racially integrate schools
Two Sisters of Providence on playground duty at St. Ann School in Fayetteville, North Carolina during its early years. In 1956, Sisters Marie Stephanie Graf, Catherine Livers (formerly Sister Agatha), and Ann Duffy arrived in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to establish St. Ann’s School. The school was the outgrowth of St. Ann’s Parish, an African American parish established in 1939 by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The growth of the parish, the overflow of students at the nearby all-white St. Patrick’s...
Sisters of Providence Support Seeking Justice and Denounce the Violence Inflicted on Black Americans since the Birth of This Nation
...work towards ending the individual and structural racism that has provoked the violence. As a predominantly white community of Roman Catholic women religious, we know we have work to do. We commit to further exploring our White privilege and understanding the intersectional nature of racism across the systems of power in our society. Fr. Bryan Massingale has described racism as a soul sickness. We declare ourselves sick as a nation. We are beginning to see White privilege as a source...
Permissive attitude toward racism inspires book club
...and discount their experiences Prisons are for minorities: many, not just a few, innocent people are in prison. Understanding white America is the norm. You cannot be white in this country and not be racist. It is part of the culture. Sue Ellen Pabst Sue pointed out, “Once you learn this information you cannot un-know it.” Both sisters now have a better understanding of systemic racism. Both are motivated to pay better attention to the injustice in our legal and prison...