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… … Worcester, Mass. -- Bishop McManus spoke about nativity characters and children shared Jesse tree symbols … during a parish family retreat in English and Spanish … at St. Paul Cathedral …
Two new books tell story of Hildegard of Bingen, fourth woman doctor of the church
… fireball gives the greenness of the heart and veins and all the organs to the entire body as a tree gives sap and greenness to all the branches from its root.' " Today's science, Fox writes, … to visit him through the beauty of nature, "with its aliveness and greening power, its jasmine trees pouring forth their amazing scent, the birds singing their memorable songs, the waters … "Don't give up, Sharon," she spoke through them. Four months later, as the snow melted and the trees blossomed once again, finances resolved themselves and the locked door to the creation …
Afghanistan journal, part one: Learning a nonviolent lifestyle in Kabul
… it looks like a city of low brown buildings surrounded by brown walls and brown roads with no trees and no water. But as the plane approached the runway, the towering mountains around us …
Bopha survivors struggle to find shelter in storm-ravaged Philippines
… shelters were destroyed and, despite the howling wind, people could hear the sound of the trees in coconut groves snapping. "The scenery on the hillsides looks very similar to a forest fire in the United States west. The only things left standing is the trunk of a tree. If they are not broken off, then all the branches are gone," she said. In New Bataan, a …
What about the "Climate Cliff"?
… away at the evergreens, and whole hillsides were visibly brown, not green. Today, millions of trees have died on the mountains. And climate change is the culprit. These beetles are …
Early Christmas decorating reminds us God is always near
… the balcony since mid-November. On social media, people started tweeting about putting up the tree and sharing photos of holiday decorations on Facebook right after Thanksgiving. It was as if …
"To Hell With It" - the "War" on Christmas
… of Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee, who adorned his State Capitol building with a traditional tree but decided to call it a “Holiday Tree” not a “Christmas Tree.” And, of course Bill Donohue of the Catholic League is distressed …
Waiting in joyful hope this Advent season
… abstinence, consider our sins and prepare the way of the Lord. Where do the candy, the tree trimming, the lessons and carols, the teas and the sleigh rides fit into all of that? Even … it's easy to wonder at this time of year whether all this celebration is in vain. Our trees and lights will not bring about the second coming any earlier, nor will they stop the …
Letters from confirmation candidates enlighten Advent journey
… a real way to this shoot of David. He’s thinking of the line of David, the great king, as a tree and that a new shoot is going to spring from that tree. It will be the perfect Messiah. In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem too. The …
Paying attention to the season
… arguing with Gov. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island says it all. Chafee refuses to call the tree in his state house a "Christmas tree." He says it's a "holiday tree." Chafee's reasoning is perfectly strange: He says when he … Christian. At least the White House and New York's Rockefeller Center still have Christmas trees -- for now. But there are lots of other places -- schools, hospitals, public buildings -- …