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Providence Associates
Walk with God with us Become a Providence Associate Are you looking for something more? Spiritual enrichment? Support? Community? Mentors? A sense of mission? God may be nudging you toward the Providence Associate relationship with the Sisters of Providence! We are women and men of varying faith traditions who walk with the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Together with the sisters, we follow God’s lead in bringing love, mercy and justice to a world in need. We share...
Earth Day Every Day
...this year’s week is “Sacred Ground: Cultivating Connections Between our Faith, our Food, and the Climate.” Interfaith Power & Light State Earth Charter Indiana Earth Charter Indiana exists to inspire and advance sustainable, just and peaceful living in Indiana by promoting the values and principles of the Earth Charter. To serve our mission we support education of youth regarding climate impacts, and to support them in expressing themselves to make their voice heard. Earth Charter Indiana Hoosier Environmental Council HEC...
Our Earth Day Festival Origins
...alpacas, hawks, goats, and … an armadillo??? We hope you will join us for a day of celebration the weekend before Earth Day, on Saturday, April 18, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. near the Lodge at the O’Shaughnessy Dining Hall as well as on Earth Day itself, April 22, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on the campus of Indiana State University. Take action with us as we continue this legacy and keep the movement alive! A brief history of Earth Day Sept....
Laudato Si’ Blooms in Oak Park Parishes
Note: The following piece, authored by Sister Susan “Sue” Paweski, SP, is in celebration of Laudato Si’ Week, May 17-24. It highlights how many Sisters of Providence who minister in other areas around the globe, are recognizing Laudato Si’ initiatives of the Congregation and helping to bring those initiatives to their ministries. Creation Liturgy The Season of Creation honoring Earth Day generated a lot of excitement at St. Catherine of Siena-St. Lucy, St. Giles parish in Oak Park, Illinois. Students...
Our Future and Land Justice
...us learned about “Earth” through the Book of Genesis … as in “God created the earth.” Brother Guy J. Consolmagno, S.J. (Astronomer and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation) says, “Genesis is not a book about science; Genesis is a book about God … (and) … it had to be written poetically because the science keeps changing.” Catholics do not interpret scripture literally, and we know that some biblical scholars may not agree. The fact is that God is...
2026 Earth Day in Photos!
April is the month we set aside to celebrate Earth and all the gifts she gives. It is an opportunity to gather with people in your community to reconnect and enjoy the sights, smells, and sounds of nature around us, especially after a long, cold winter. Of course, when you plan an Earth Day event, you hope that mother nature plays along and gives you warmer temperatures and sunshine, but that is usually a big ask when Earth Day occurs...
Helen Vinton
...grants for the benefit of low income families in the southern United States. Sister Helen Vinton (formerly Sister Helen Jean) Complete Ministry In Illinois: Teacher, St. Mary Carmelite School, Joliet (1956-58). In Indiana: Teacher, St. Mary School, Richmond (1958-64); Teacher, Ladywood High School, Indianapolis (1964-75). In Iowa: Publications and writing policy research, National Catholic Rural Life Conference, Des Moines (1975-80). In Louisiana: Director of Plantation Initiative Program, Southern Mutual Help Association, Jeanerette (1980-81); Coordinator of Planned Initiative in Rural Development...
A Call to all Justice Advocates
...journey toward sustainability and integral ecology by developing a Laudato Si’ Action Platform. Read our action platform plan here. Death Penalty Advocacy During the horrific execution spree our nation underwent during 2020-2021, we ministered with Death Penalty Action and others to conduct peaceful protests during each of these executions through rain, heat and cold conditions. We continue to work with Death Penalty Action and others hoping our federal government abolishes the death penalty. Sister Tracey Horan Kino Border Initiative Sister...
Land Ethic
USDA organic garden at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. As members of one sacred Earth community, we Sisters of Providence commit ourselves individually and communally to care for our resources and to make decisions regarding their current and future use as we seek to balance our individual and SP communal economic needs with the sustainability needs of Earth community. The following commitments will guide our decisions regarding the care and use of our resources. “This land was no longer for me the...
Hope and healing for Earth: Earth Day 2012
...the Earth Day Network website, we learn Earth Day went international in the 1990s and grew and grew as the millennium unfolded. This time, Earth Day went global, mobilizing 200 million people in 141 countries and lifting environmental issues onto the world stage. Earth Day 1990 gave a huge boost to recycling efforts worldwide and helped pave the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. It also prompted President Bill Clinton to award Senator Nelson...
Mercy to Earth
...perceiving Earth as separate from us and to start seeing Earth as equal to humans — to begin living as one united life force, one united manifestation of God’s incarnation.” – Sister Theresa Boland “Mother Earth herself doesn’t need mercy. From the very beginning, Mother Earth has had the divine plan to sustain herself until her life source, the Sun, fails to exist. If we continue using up the resources of Mother Earth — land, air and water — at...
Justice
Environmental & social justice Join our mission We are committed to love, mercy, and justice. You are invited to collaborate with us, through social justice and ecological justice initiatives. Join us for workshops, ecological spirituality retreats, internships and more. Help us in our mission of being God’s Providence in the world. “This particular Congregation is called into being by God to participate as a community in extending the Providential designs of God to all creation.” – The Sisters of Providence...