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Virtual visit
...on on a field at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Have a seat and enjoy the beauty of God’s creation. Providence Hall in the early morning mist. New walking tour signage to show up the flower garden at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. The Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Rays of sunlight through the trees. The St. Anne Shell Chapel exterior. The grotto at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Saint Mother Theodore Guerin statue Saint Mother Theodore Guerin statue on a misty morning....
Get involved
...tour groups and sharing your clerical skills to assisting with activities in our health care and providing transportation for sisters. Are you a graduating college senior or perhaps you just retired? Take a break from the ordinary and become an intern at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. Spend three months to a year harvesting vegetables from the organic garden, helping shear alpacas, learning to spin fiber, weave or knit – the sky is the limit! Perhaps you’re looking for a...
Sustainable agriculture internships
An internship at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, might mean planting, weeding or harvesting green beans. An internship at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice has been described as the chance of a lifetime by those who have come and gone. There are many sustainable agriculture learning experiences in the world, but one at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, includes hundreds of Catholic Sisters of Providence from which to learn and be inspired. I’ve been told it’s one of...
Sister Ruth Johnson: kinship with creation
...for being around for as long as it has. If you listen carefully, they will respond to you, not in words, but in signs and energy.” When the Sisters of Providence decided to make ecological justice a priority during the early 1990s and opened White Violet Center for Eco-Justice at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1996, Sister Ruth was a supporter from the beginning. This is one of Sister Ruth’s fiber art projects, a nativity scene created from felted alpaca fiber. Sister...
Adopt an Alpaca
A virtual alpaca adoption makes a great gift for yourself or for a loved one. It’s perfect for animal lovers and for those people who seem to have everything. And when you adopt an alpaca with us, you are also supporting a great cause by helping to care for the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods White Violet Center alpacas. We so appreciate your support. How to adopt your alpaca The cost to adopt an alpaca for one year is...
Catherine White
...“found her spiritual destination upon passing through the gates at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.” Here is her complete ministry: Sister Catherine White Complete Ministry In Indiana: Teacher, St. Joan of Arc, Indianapolis (1984-85); Pastoral Associate, St. Agnes Parish, Evansville (1986-87); Providence Phone Room, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2019-20); Residential Services, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2020). In California: Principal, St. Joseph School, Hawthorne (1989-95); Executive Director-South Central LAMP, South Central/Los Angeles Ministerial Project, Los Angeles (1997-2000); Teacher, Notre Dame Academy, Los Angeles (2000-04); Safe Environment Coordinator, Diocese...
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...
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Kristen Kimery!
Four years ago, Kristen Kimery and her family moved to the Terre Haute area from Wyoming. The former teacher, who was raised in Colorado, was looking for something to do. And she had a keen interest in alpacas. “I was researching alpacas in the area,” Kristen said. “They are such unique animals.” Kristen Kimery volunteering at the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice alpaca barn. Her online search led her to White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. So, Kristen set up an...
White Violet Wednesday: The story behind our cucumbers
“Picklers” and “slicers” for sale at the Farm Store Not to brag but our cucumbers are special The cucumbers we’ve been harvesting at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice are not your average cuke. They are specialty varieties, selected for their thin skins, small seed cavities, and crispy texture. They also have the added bonus of being “burpless,” for those of you who may have trouble with the not-so-friendly grocery-store cucumber. Cucumbers fall into broad categories like “picklers” and “slicers,” but...
Emily Walsh
...Staff/Office of Congregational Advancement, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2001-06); Resource Center Staff/Congregational Business Office Staff/Owens Hall Library, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2006-07); Resource Center/Owens Hall Library, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2007); Resource Center Coordinator/Owens Hall Library, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2007-11); Librarian, Providence Resource Center, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2012-17); Residential Services, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2017-2020); Prayer, Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2020). In Washington, D.C.: Library Administrator/Teacher, Immaculata Prep and College (1967-75)....
Remembering Sister Barbara Doherty
“Be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone’s soul to heal.” Rumi Blog post author and Providence Associate Ezra Kyle Meadors with his friend Sister Barbara Doherty I arrived at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in the fall of 2016 for a nine-month internship at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. That first evening at supper, I sat down next to my friend Sister Barbara Doherty. Despite her living with dementia, she called me by name. She asked how long I...
A Queen’s Perspective: The ‘Daily Life’ of our Alpacas
Note: Meet the Queen and president of the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice Alpacas, as she shares about a day in her life. Did you know that Queen Basilide and our other alpaca friends are available for virtual adoption? That’s me! Basilide, the president and Queen of White Violet Center Alpacas! Greetings! My name is Basilide, pronounced Bass-uh-leed, named after the honored Sister Basilide Sénéchal, a founding Sister of Providence. Sister Basilide was described as a “lively, impetuous character” which...