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Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
… it flows, life will abound." "Near the river on both banks there will be all kinds of fruit trees that will not wither and fruit that will never fail. The fruit will be good to eat and the …
Empty ground: The Obama presidency
… air.’ ” “Hmmf,” he grumped. … But in the second year, there came the faithful miracle. … Tiny trees began to appear in the fallow ground, trees so small that one would be tempted to tell children that these were lived in by elves. … tiniest sprigs of spruce, a delicate red-stemmed maple, and seven baby bays from a huge mother tree down the road. At the end of the third year, there were two maples four feet tall, fifteen …
Elections 08: Uses and misuses of bitterness
… soul-stealers, all. ...tWe are, after all, dependent on the sweetwater, like the flowering tree planted by streams of water... it is nourished by the water underground, and thereby yields …
Bill Callahan steps down as Quixote Center leader
… 10-mile race in Washington, D.C. He is also a gardener and especially enjoys caring for fruit trees. One of Callahan’s most notable accomplishments came with the publication in 1981 of Noisy …
Pius XII 'spared no effort' for Jews, Benedict XVI says
… World War II many Jews thanked Pius XII. Some, he said, even proposed that a forest of 860,000 trees be planted in Israel, reflecting one estimate that Pius XII was responsible for saving …
Jennifer Sekar, organizer of \"A Day of Rest\"
… school if you stand where they drop people off, it smells really gross. There are a lot less trees nowadays, too. … What should everyone do once in their life? … Get together with a lot of …
Mending the torn soul
… hears over time and space, brilliant cracking sounds as his body weight crushes the small trees as he falls. She hears her love’s labored breathing as he lies sprawled and broken at the …
Life and death at Ground Zero
… my best friend." I uttered a prayer and off he dashed, back up the Pile like a squirrel up a tree. For the rest of the day, workers accosted me -- desperate to talk, overwhelmed by grief, …
When women must rest: Come then the spirits in white
… were the sources of solace and nourishment for others: the flower and food bearing-plants and trees. Like us. Very like us after we’ve been through one sort of storm or another emotionally, … root cellars and walk out over the land, bending to see what help the crops, the flowers, the trees needed. The littlest children picked up the strewn boughs full of leaves and fruits. These … But, the handless maiden chooses instead to wander the wild roads where she is fed by fruit trees that bend down to nourish her. This orchard of living compassion belongs to a king who …
The greatest shows on earth?
… with capitalism, populist party or no populist party: The gathering of the faithful is a money tree for the cities that win the lottery to host the convention. The Democratic convention alone …
Experiencing the Divine in our Lives
… a lesson to be taught — to love oneself! … Marian Noll … Dark woods entangled deadfall aged trees endure. A sudden white amazement: radiance — white arms wide, held high surprising grace! …
In the Land of the Savior, 1985
… week was our visit to the Jesuit University of Central America, a graceful campus of palm trees, preened lawns, stucco buildings crowned with red-tile roofs, vast clusters of flowers -- a … day -- you are in a war zone. In the evening, after working the fields, we sat under the mango trees--at the beginning of my stay there were about a hundred of us--quietly eating our dinner … response to war as bombs rumbled in the distance. Salvadorans store their machetes high up in tree branches, out of the reach of children--but not quite high enough for me. Tom and I were …
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… before this experience that Elijah was discouraged. "He laid down, went to sleep under a broom tree; then an angel touched him and said, 'Get up and eat.' Elijah looked and saw at his head a …
The power of the exiled woman: The handless maiden
… Philemon who loves every son and daughter he has, including his mint plants and his fruiting trees as though they were his children. Imagine those figures as symbolic of a collective … essay about diminishment of women's gifts. Read in an ealier column the essay, " The Apple Tree ." It goes like this [In] my old country family's version of the tale "The Handless Maiden" …
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… and the people within it. Jesus is telling us that that tiny mustard seed becomes a tree, and that tiny bit of yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise, it transforms. In that …
The Apple Tree: Sexual Body Theology
… And then, just behind a buttress appeared one of the saddest sights. A magnificent old apple tree, but one so laden with apples, so fertile, so fecund, so heavy with thousands of enormous … a frail aunt in the back seat, not wanting her bones to clank together. But now that the apple tree's boughs could be lifted, I had nothing to wrap them with. All surfaces - road, sidewalk, … watch over. He would bring a small saw and carefully trim, not sever. He knew about mending trees; a fine old Italiano. Besides, after I told him about the unusual St. Joseph out back, I …
Art and Spirituality: In the name of the mother
… in the sky above, the earth below, in the animals, in our dreams. -- Art by Meinrad Craighead "Tree Mother," 1982 One critic called her art “vast landscapes of interconnectedness.” … where for the next 14 years she continued her work, publishing her first book, The Sign of the Tree , and becoming the subject of a number of television documentaries. "Stars," 1984 It …
Novena natus: Nine hymns for the souls of women
… elders who are creating the credentials that matter most: proof that a woman is like a great tree who, by its ability to move instead of remaining unmoved, can survive the strongest storms …
The only diet for a peacemaker is a vegetarian diet
… Genesis 1:29 says, "See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food." Biblical images and justice issues …