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White Violet Center interns: Meet the fabulous four!
It is always a happy time at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (WVC) when we welcome new interns! They each bring their unique personalities, skill sets, interests, creativity, experiences, talents and energy! (L to R) Campbell Sullivan, Gaia Malin, Sister Mary Montgomery, Madeleine Beck, Libby Robinette This January we are welcoming two new interns into our program, Gaia Malin and Campbell Sullivan. They joined two of our seasoned interns, Libby and Madeleine. Enjoy learning more about our current “crop” of...
Sister of Providence illustrates book on “Alpacas and Bullying”
...White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. For more information call 812-535-2930 or e-mail WVC@spsmw.org. About White Violet Center for Eco-Justice White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, a ministry of the Sisters of Providence, teaches, cares and inspires for all creation. More information about White Violet Center for Eco-Justice may be found at WhiteViolet.org. White Violet Center on Facebook @wvcecojustice on Twitter @whitevioletcenter on Instagram About the Sisters of Providence The Sisters of Providence, a congregation of 214 women religious, with 300 Providence...
A special family visit
Sister Mary Montgomery (in back) with her niece Susan and Susan’s daughter Violet in the Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. As Susan and her 2-year-old daughter Violet were standing outside Providence Spirituality & Conference Center, Susan’s mother, Anna, went inside. This was the family’s second visit to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The family lives in Phoenix. Puzzled, Violet asked her mother where her grandma went. Susan said she went inside the building. Violet then said, “She went to pray. She’s going...
The cat’s meow
Sage might greet you at your next visit to White Violet Center. It all started with mouse droppings. When Lorrie Heber took over leadership of White Violet Center in March of 2014, she noticed evidence of some unwelcomed visitors in the center. Several traps later, the culprits had not been caught. It was jokingly suggested that Lorrie get a barn cat. “I started thinking … why not? I got to thinking that one cat would be lonely, especially since we’re...
White Violet Center: Meet the new 2020 fall intern cohort
Margaret, Rose, Sister Mary, Mary, Madeline and Libby A popular refrain within the Community of Providence is “Sacred Creation” by Rufino Zaragoza, OFM. “Sacred the land, sacred the water, sacred the sky, holy and true. Sacred all life, sacred each other; all reflect God who is good.” We at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice experience these blessings day by day and season by season. We Sisters of Providence and White Violet Center staff give thanks for the blessings of our...
8th Day Center for Justice: Statement on White Supremacy
...that there is a line that can never be crossed. It is a step toward addressing the radical harms that white supremacy has enacted globally. White “ignorance” needs to be named. White ignorance is the denial of knowledge of harms of oppression that the white community commits. Arguments that minimize and distort concrete realities that white supremacy produces can no longer be excused. Frameworks that “explain away” the self-evidentiary knowledge of white supremacy’s impacts and actions are not neutral or...
Care of Earth attracts new members
Tracey Horan, who recently entered the Sisters of Providence as a postulant, got to know the sisters while serving as an intern at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice in 2012, as shown here. Who would think that forest and cropland, organic vegetables, harvesting honey and a herd of alpacas could bring young women closer to God and to life as women religious? Yet that’s exactly what’s happening at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (WVC), a ministry of the Sisters of...
Life on the farm at White Violet Center: Meet our summer crop of interns
...of the need to promote and unify all the great values. Once we lose our humility, and become enthralled with the possibility of limitless mastery over everything, we inevitably end up harming society and the environment.” (Laudato Si ~ is not addressed only to Catholics but to “every person living on this planet…”) We at the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice are very enthusiastic and grateful to introduce a wonderful “crop” of interns at this time! Libby Robinette has served energetically...
Come with me
I am thankful that I am less of a compulsive planner than I used to be. The flexibility required at White Violet Center would have driven me crazier when I was younger. The plan on the calendar had me doing alpaca chores in the morning and decorating White Violet Center at an unspecified time. I finished the alpaca chores and began to head down the hallway toward White Violet Center. With a dramatic outflung hand, Ann points at me and...
A Note from Providence Associates Jane Fischer and Pearlette Springer, September 11, 2024
...with associates. People were either Catholic or they were not. And we were all white. I had little or no exposure to POC until I went away to college. Once I became aware of my whiteness, I sought out social encounters and conversations with non-Catholics and POC. But I treaded carefully: I didn’t want to reveal my ignorance of other people and cultures. Jane believes that if you have grown up in a predominantly white (or sameness) culture, it is...
General Superiors
...of the Immaculate Conception bell tower refurbished and associated church projects completed (2016). Other noteworthy events: Providence Cristo Rey High School opens in Indianapolis (2007); Apostolic Visitation visitors at SMW (2010); process concluded by Vatican (2015); significantly increased programming at Providence Spirituality and Conference Center and White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (2011 ff.); sponsored institutions/ministry assessment process; subsequent decisions (2012ff.); introduced livestream broadcasts of communication nights and wake services (2013); invited Providence Associates to attend some sessions of the SP...
Our Future and Land Justice
...SPSMW], see becoming a focus community with Land Justice Futures as a deepening of our Land Ethic and an opportunity for integrating the ministry of the White Violet Center, the Climate Crisis Task Force, and the Task Force on Racial Equity and Equality into our community discernment on land protection, regeneration, and restoration. When asked about the challenges facing religious communities in America, a Sister of another focus community expressed it this way: “For 20 years now, I feel like...