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… drive less miles, buy locally grown foods, eat organic natural food, start a small tree planting project on waste land wherever you live and support a group campaigning for a clean … feast fair-trade sales of dried mangos pay for the planting and protection of 200 fruit tree saplings 2 meters tall done with the indigenous people for the past 6 years. So eating the right food does justice, plants trees, saves the soil, provides shade, cools the earth, conserves water, and prevents landslides. …

… Christ still shines, a light no darkness can extinguish. The ritual is simple. Most Christmas tree lot owners are happy to sell inexpensive bundles of greenery for the wreath, and some owners …

… Is it just me, or do more people have their Christmas trees all decorated, their lights all up and their shopping all done this year? More and more of … Christmas spirit in our culture that precedes the actual Christmas season. We haven't bought a tree yet, haven't responded to any of the dozens of promotional emails to order photo cards, …

… It tracks energy savings and avoided emissions translates into how many cars off the road or trees planted for storytelling purposes. You can aggregate it with other parishes. It’s …

… and practiced in many different settings. The blog’s logo contains the leaf from a sycamore tree, reflecting the significance of a common tree that is renowned for its ability to absorb pollution, as well as its important place in the …

… Jesus. Definitely have an advent calendar for small children. Make decorating the Christmas tree something the family does on Christmas Eve and something the family does together. Keep your …

… delight is the law of the Lord; and who ponders God's law day and night. That person is like a tree that is planted beside flowing of waters, who yields its fruit in due season; whose leaves …

… develop fishing industries. In the last three years, they have planted more than 335,000 fruit trees in Haiti and Jamaica. The Gospel demands everything of us. We are to give alms and meet the …

… more about this book should be mentioned: its graceful linkage between the symbolism of the tree and motherhood with today’s ecological concerns; the meditation on Mary’s visit with …

… while it embraces it. The embrace of natural architectural motifs, the columns that look like trees and the moss-like stone of the facade, the use of natural light, and the strange oculi …

… people to kind of look on him with scorn. He gets out ahead of the crowd and he climbs up a tree -- this grown man climbs a tree and is sitting on the limb, waiting for Jesus to pass by. I can easily believe (and I think … would agree) when Jesus came there and looked up, he must have smiled at this man climbing a tree, opening himself to scorn and ridicule, but as Jesus smiled at Zacchaeus, he filled the …

… camp can just as easily spring up in the communities, so let's accelerate the process." In a tree-shaded clearing amid the tents, surrounded by clotheslines hung with paintings and … of a roulette-style game popular in Haiti. His wife, Marie-Michelle Similien, sits beside a tree, painting a silhouette on a colorful background, while three other painters work at canvases …

… and simple cause-and-effect were in charge of things, we wouldn't have autumn's colors. Trees are models of efficiency in most of their processes and activities -- the photosynthesis … is waste, sheer excess and leftover. It is created by substances revealed only when the tiring tree seals off the sap circulation and no longer charges up the chlorophyll in the leaves. The …

… world. What we have to do is stress that we’re so close to you, we’re fruits of the same tree. If we reach out to Muslims, then Muslims will see affinities with Christianity, instead of …

… McNiff, archdiocesan superintendent of schools, told Catholic News Service. "When you prune a tree, you're prepared for growth." McNiff said the short-term target is to reduce by half the …

… Lord replied, "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. Father began his homily by …

… nightmares of falling from high places, and he even tried to meet this fear by jumping out of trees. Did his deepest innards know even then he was destined to first solo the Atlantic? … and help older people. Each human life must be, after all, an organic thing, like an oak tree. That tree begins with a blueprint built into genetic material in the lowly acorn and, obedient to that …

… the candelabra of the city lights softly beyond him I asked him why he had planted so many trees and flowers throughout Chicago. “I can’t solve people’s personal problems or their other …

… want a nominee to be on learning of his appointment. But, indeed, it was while chopping down trees on a Monday off last year that Etienne got the call telling him that B16 had named him to … process: if you’re seeking a good fit for Wyoming, someone whose idea of relaxing is cutting trees (and who gave his priest-brothers hunting rifles as ordination gifts) would be hard to …

… canopies, city sidewalks everywhere begin to be decorated with colors in the plants, weeds and trees. "Autumn will soon be gemmed and jeweled beyond a rajah's wildest dreams," wrote Hal … of lapis lazuli and turquoise and aquamarine. God that will be heaped and drifted beneath the trees, new-minted gold and Roman gold and antique gold, more gold than the Incas and Aztecs ever …