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Tag: Care of the Earth
What Is Our Legacy?
What will future generations say of us, who leave them a degraded planet as our legacy? How will we face our Lord and Creator? – Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please… Continue Reading “What Is Our Legacy?”
We Need Conversion
To achieve such reconciliation, we must examine our lives and acknowledge the ways in which we have harmed God’s creation through or actions and our failure to act. We need to experience a conversion, or change of heart. – Pope Francis, Laudato Sí, quoting the… Continue Reading “We Need Conversion”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Family
Truly, Earth is our family, and we need to help her to flourish as much as diligently as we prepare our children for the future. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. – Native American Proverb
Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal
I love the poetry of Wendell Barry; he is a man of hope. The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal”
What Kind of Globalization Do We Want to Create?
We are living in a period of commercial globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization. – Sister Joan Chittister, OSB
Care for Creation – Something All Christians Can Believe In
Because I was out of town, I got a little behind on postings, and even missed Earth Day. So, since we should be concerned about the earth and all who live there more than one day a year, there will be several postings in… Continue Reading “Care for Creation – Something All Christians Can Believe In”
Walking Humbly on the Earth
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration. – Wendell Berry
Finding the Cure in a Pumpkin Patch
The only cure is love, by Helen Caldicot I just walked around my garden. It is a sunny, fall day and white fleecy clouds are scudding across a clear, blue sky. The air is fresh and clear with no taint of chemical smells, and… Continue Reading “Finding the Cure in a Pumpkin Patch”
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