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Holy Week is time for spring cleaning, including spiritually, pope says
… instrument of torture," is the greatest sign of God's love, he said. "Having become the tree of life, that wood of death reminds us that God's beginnings often begin with our ends." "In …
Rebounding Pope Francis marks Palm Sunday in Vatican square
… other prelates and rank-and-file Catholics. Participants carried palm fronds or olive tree branches. Francis, 86, received antibiotics administered intravenously during his three-day …
Our eco-memories, and those of Jesus, connect us with creation and community
… season had peaked when I saw the Scott family bargain with neighbors to remove fallen trees from their yards. The Scotts recycled the trees to produce hardwood coal at their James Beard award-winning Scott's Bar-B-Q restaurant in … One of the most challenging eco-memories about Jesus is when he curses an unproductive fig tree ( Matthew 21:18-22 ). After his death and resurrection, Jesus' disciples linked his …
Pray for rain: Spanish farmers hold unique Mass amid drought
… resort. The government has restricted water usage, asking farmers to limit watering crops and trees as much as possible. All three reservoirs in the area are below a third of their capacity. …
South LA residents worry about a Catholic archdiocese-owned oil well in their midst
… an active oil drill site is hidden just behind a green fence and a row of carefully manicured trees. Two gates on either end display signs identifying the Murphy Site, operated by E&B Natural …
Be attentive to 'God's first sacred text' to experience the living God, says new book
… asked him if he saw anything, the man's response was: "I can see people, but they look like trees, walking." So Jesus touched the man's eyes again, at which point the man "looked intently … to do is misread what we're seeing, just as the man being healed saw what looked like walking trees. We need spiritual healing to be able to read God's original scripture, of which we're a …
St. Patrick and the Buddha: More alike than different?
… eschew human guidance and surrender themselves to the land. Siddhartha sat down under a Bodhi tree and vowed not to get up until attaining enlightenment. Patrick, for his part, prayed …
For Catholic Sisters Week, Green Bay Franciscans raise up their charism to care for creation
… anymore. … Where's the pollution worse? In the poor neighborhoods. Or where's the lack of trees and decent land? It's where the people of color are," Jochmann said. Conversations have …
Pope Francis' 'too Christian' outreach: 10 years of Vatican 'proactive diplomacy'
… Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for a time of joint prayer and the planting of an olive tree inside the Vatican gardens in an effort to promote peace in the Middle East. On another …
After the shock of winter, an instinct to survive
… bloom and the freeze expected to encrust the many pink blossoms of my town's magnolia and plum trees — is the earth's response to a high-grade fever. Climate change has punctured and … demonstrates the circle it so patiently and ploddingly draws around a fuchsia, a crabapple tree, cherry branches and that final fist relenting to palm. These instructions are a short … "Fine then, I'll take it," as the speaker of the poem intuits a voice for the tree. The tree's leaves don't just open to the world, which could happen timidly, rather they "unfurl" like …
Diocese and bank in Kenya partner to restore forests, mitigate and adapt to climate change
… bank in East Africa to increase forest cover as the country prepares to plant 15 billion trees in the next 10 years, part of newly elected President William Ruto's "ambitious pledge to … in the region, including the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi. During a tree-planting exercise on land owned by the Murang'a Diocese, Wainaina vowed to mobilize … with other organizations, like churches, has successfully planted about 21.1 million trees out of its target of 35 million seedlings . Each million seedlings represent a year that …