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Second Sunday of Advent
… better not pout…” but the reward he promises for conversion is not at all like a tinseled tree surrounded by toys and electronics. John is indeed promising a reward, but it’s one that … then calls us to take all of those lofty ideals and make them as concrete as the fruits of the trees to which the world looks for nourishment. We don’t have to live like John the Baptist to be … mindset. He wasn’t saying that there was no good in his society. There were fruit-bearing trees, and there was wheat as well as chaff, but it was time for a major shakeup. John wanted …
Announcing the coming
… better not pout ..." but the reward he promises for conversion is not at all like a tinseled tree surrounded by toys and electronics. CEL_Dec042016.jpg John is indeed promising a reward, but … then calls us to take all of those lofty ideals and make them as concrete as the fruits of the trees to which the world looks for nourishment. We don't have to live like John the Baptist to be …
Store on busy road invigorates Nairobi women's peacemaking group
… of Nairobi, used to sit on a blanket and make their beaded handicrafts under the shade of a tree in the church courtyard. But with the arrival of a new store in a converted container, …
Trump and the 'War on Christmas'
… or to NCR ! Sing Advent hymns and make an Advent wreath and don't decorate your Christmas tree until Christmas Eve. Oh yes, and pray for the country. [Michael Sean Winters is NCR …
Louisville Catholic school partakes in Green for Good research project
… There's a lot there," Bhatnagar said. Once preliminary data had been collected, several large trees and shrubs were planted along the front of the school. Bhatnagar said the idea was to …
In some countries, St. Barbara's Day helps kick off Christmas season
… three weeks, the sprouts will be plentiful, accenting the Nativity scene under the Christmas tree. There are different versions of St. Barbara's story. Legend says she was the beautiful … of the Trinity. During her time of imprisonment, St. Barbara kept a branch from a cherry tree, which she watered from her cup. On Dec. 4, when her father decapitated her for refusing to … Trinity — are green, they are used to decorate the creche, usually placed under the Christmas tree. The French saying is "Quand le ble va bien, tout va bien." or "When the wheat goes well, …
St. Ignatius Fellowship invests in young adults
… where hiking through mountains and along rivers was easily accessible. He once planted 200 trees on a friend's property for an eighth-grade science project as a way to reduce carbon. "I …
Editorial: Are you ready? God is being born again
… us like a thief in the night. To resist needed change is to risk an ax to the root of the tree, a winnowing fan that separates the wheat from the chaff. A door has opened. The poor hear …
Kindness inspires parishioner's commitment to her Brooklyn church
… the Windsor Terrace section of Brooklyn in 1961, shortly before my second birthday. It was a tree-lined block located between Greenwood Cemetery and Prospect Park and my mother would often …
After Typhoon Haiyan, Mercy Sisters in Philippines rebuild school, hospital
… buildings of the school that had served 1,500 students in shambles under a thicket of fallen trees and debris. Damaged, too, was the adjacent 50-bed hospital the sisters ran. "Sisters had … gone,'" she remembers. "I went down and I couldn't see anything because it was covered with trees." She didn't recognize the school, she said, and was unable to even see the roads because of all the fallen trees. More frightening, "I really didn't know what to do," she said. "We had no money, no way to …