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How we see and know daily holiness
… 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 …
Overdoing Advent
… Heidi Schlumpf … 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, …
The solar-powered, inner-city parish
… 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 …
Welcome to Eco Catholic
… 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 …
Advent: Time for Christian Resistance
… 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 …
This is not a time to give up
… 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 …
Don't forget 'Food For The Poor'
… 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 …
The mystery and beauty of God's mother
… 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 …
Benedict in Barcelona
… 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 …
'Come. I want to enter your house'
… 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 …