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… know where it comes from or where it is going but know it by its affect in the movement in the trees. We have been given an Easter season of 50 days to begin to grasp the need for the rebirth …
Lessons learned from a Lent without Twitter or Facebook
… platforms are positioned to learn the news much later, if at all. Gone are the days of phone trees or even large group emails. If you want to know the news alongside everyone else, you have …
How to pray the Lord's Prayer with all creatures
… humans. Scripture furnishes numerous moments when nonhuman creatures honor God's goodness. The trees of the field clap their hands, the mountains and the hills break forth in singing ( Isaiah … It points to God as the one who makes springs gush forth, who causes grass to grow, who waters trees and feeds young lions: "These all look to you to give them their food in due season / when …
Book uplifts the soul of a Jewish neighborhood after unspeakable horror
… by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics. I’m going in." He then drove to the Tree of Life synagogue Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, the center of the region's Jewish community, and killed … ambitious. He sought to plumb "the soul of a neighborhood." The result is Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood , an extraordinarily intimate and …
Looking at a buttercup through Easter eyes
… looking at the human; we humans and buttercups are part of a cosmic whole. When we look at a tree or a flower, we are also looking at ourselves, for we are made of the same stuff that makes …
People need justice based on truth, trust, goodness, pope says
… must always be tended to with reforms, the way dead branches are pruned without harming "the tree of justice," the pope said. Problems that must be kept from growing are "power struggles, …
Advocates ask Catholics to engage Congress on climate issues following IPCC report
… continue to rise, putting human lives in danger. Solutions can be as simple as planting trees, reducing electricity usage in the home and on parish property, and driving less and …
As the Amazon loses resilience, church and popular movements strive to intervene
… around six or seven times from the coast to the deeper parts of the forest. A reduction in trees on the edge of the forest breaks this cycle down as water is evaporated from leaves in this process," he explained. "Trees are getting less rain and so those that were already getting less water are going to be …
Chicago educator empowers students to make climate connections in their own communities
… in the Field Museum's programs interact with plant life native to the region, such as the oak tree — which produces wood for furniture and floors, but also yields acorns that are food for … being like, this is still very much so important to your everyday routine. Just like that oak tree that's giving oxygen, but also that you walk on. Some people still hunt and shoot squirrels that live in oak trees. So, it's talking about how all of this connects, how all these dots come together," …
A hospital chaplain reflects on the power of memory during COVID-19
… glitter-gold nail polish, Alba and Gonzalez where my own abuelas once grew from those family trees. I am haunted by the weight of names I have forgotten: anointings and international phone …
Another chance
… from the burning bush to lead the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt. The parable of the fig tree encourages us to let God work with us to make us more fruitful. In both stories, God chooses … life of Israel. The drama of the call of Moses may seem far away from the fate of a single fig tree, but the same divine compassion is at work in cultivating its destiny within God’s larger plans. The tree has produced nothing in three years. It is furthermore taking up valuable soil another tree …
A pastor finds joy through the Lenten practice of birdwatching
… up and down, his eyes bright, his head tilted to the side. We noticed turkey vultures in the tree across the street, two dozen of them sunning their wings in the early morning California … I began to see the incremental shifts of hour and season. The pink blossoms on the nectarine tree budded and then burst open. The crows began dragging sticks out of the neighbor's tree, preparing to build a nest. The angle of the sun slanted upward. The earth warmed. Birds are …
Third Sunday of Lent: Rethink ideas about God
… vision. With that, he launched into a parable about a landowner, a gardener and a barren fig tree. The owner who wanted his land to produce to its full potential told the gardener to destroy the sterile tree. The gardener, who apparently understood the life cycle of figs and the power of dung, asked … and Jesus as the gardener/savior who wants to offer a last-ditch opportunity for the indolent tree. That interpretation, seeing Jesus as God's final offer, fits a theology of a just but …
St. Brigid, Ireland's female patron saint, gets less recognition than St. Patrick
… replaced the food for her family. Later in life, she turned a wooden column into a living tree with one touch and hung her cloak on a sunbeam. After she founded her monastic community at …
CRS Rice Bowl highlights climate adaptation to major cyclones in Bangladesh
… the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Bangladesh and Caritas Bangladesh have promoted a tree-planting campaign to create a natural buffer from extreme weather and help mitigate rising …
Medical Mission Sisters in India create center for quiet and healing amid the wonder of God's creation
… made a once-barren hill in Pune, India, into a green "lung." With a variety of about 3,000 trees, we have tried to maintain the flora and fauna where all those who come in enjoy the …
Rome's famed pine trees may face extinction. What will the Vatican do to save theirs?
… Rome may be known as the Eternal City, but its famed umbrella pine trees could soon face extinction. Rome has been sacked by the Gauls, the Visigoths and the … told EarthBeat, explaining that the parasite feeds on the sap from young branches of the tree. This then leads to the spread of a black fungus, which makes the pine needles dry up, causing the tree's death within two to three years. Rome without its iconic umbrella pine trees is something …
Can religion and faith combat eco-despair?
… through their philosophies. For these spiritual traditions, religious practice integrates trees, flowers, sacred groves, sanctified terrains, rivers, mountains and elements of the entire …
8 Catholic indie artists you may have never heard of
… posting videos featuring her gorgeous voice, you'll be blessed by her daily snaps of flowers, trees and gorgeous skies that help you to remember to stay present and find God in nature. … he advocates the power of true rest with his new music on this debut record. His song " Giving Tree ," which he released initially as a single, is a nostalgic tune filled with imagery of childhood and love for his family as a blessing. The accompanying music video for "Giving Tree" is equally as beautiful, featuring candid moments with relatives and gorgeous natural …
Longevity of elderly a reminder to take things slow, pope says
… to his or her roots, which are the grandparents, does not receive the strength, like the tree, the strength of the roots, and grows up badly, grows up ailing, grows up without points of …