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UN wants faith groups to help work against plastic pollution
… from fossil fuel to challenging massive oil and gas projects, faith-based groups have led in tree planting and promoted better farming methods to conserve the environment. They also are key …
See me, hear me
… Pat Marrin … “For every tree is known by its own fruit” (Luke 6:44). … Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time … Sir 27:4-7 ; Ps … or foolish, and how actions expose character in the same way fruit reveals the health of a tree. In today’s Gospel, Luke offers a series of Jesus’ images about similar themes: The blind … teachers; If we don’t know our own flaws, we can’t help others deal with theirs; We know a tree by its fruit. These sayings reveal how perceptive Jesus was in dealing with both his …
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Speak less, listen more
… and disciples. The second part of this reading complements the first. Good teachers, like good trees, are recognizable not by their size or the noise they make, but by how the fruit of their … about where we look to find guidance about a life worth living — how to find and be fruitful trees. Looking at our own context, we might consider the implications of the following two …
After Batsirai, Madagascans terrified of next cyclone, says CRS official
… anything like it. He told me that night (Feb. 5) was the longest night of his life, watching trees fall one after another," she said. People's vanilla and cinnamon businesses were wiped out along with the trees, Fajardo said, noting that the vast majority of homesteads in Mandalay and surrounding … and other products. "The wind swept everything away," Fajardo said, noting that plots where trees and rice had grown are now bare. She said she saw beach sand nearly a mile inland from the …
I can see clearly now
… his eyes with spittle, then asks him if he can see anything. When the man says he sees “trees walking,” Jesus touches his eyes again, and the man clearly sees that they are people. …
For a greener Valentine's Day, skip the bouquet of roses
… gifts like a packet of seeds as a promise to garden with your beloved, or a donation to have a tree planted in a loved one's honor. Given that St. Valentine is the patron saint of beekeepers …
Ecospirituality is more than ecology and theology. It calls us to reconnect.
… of humans with the rest of creation. "In the Indigenous world, the relationship with a tree, a lake, the forest, the sky, the stars, the moon, the sun, is not a systematic, rational, … before the synod officially began, Francis marked his namesake's feast day, Oct. 4, with a tree-planting ceremony in the Vatican Gardens, accompanied by delegates to the synod, some of …
Stand together: Violence is every faith community's business
… not surprising. Such shows of support often take place in response to emergencies. After the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, Muslim groups were among those who raised tens of thousands of …
The enemy within
… the intentions of the heart. In Genesis, God gives Adam a tour of the garden with its luscious trees but warns him to stay away from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What we eat is less significant and dangerous than what … of love to happen. So, God tests Adam and Eve by telling them they must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan, God’s adversary, seduces them with the lie that if …
Re-Indigenize your faith by recognizing sweetgrass, all things as kin
… In the Potawatomi creation story, Sky Woman descends to this world with the foliage of the Tree of Life. In Catholic tradition, Mary, like the smoke of the medicine that bears her name, ascends to the heavens and the Tree of Life whose leaves will "serve as medicine for the nations" (Revelations 22:2). "Mary's …
Equality protections for all Americans are overdue, but we can right this wrong
… a Catholic, I strongly believe in my core that God makes no mistakes. Even when the leaf of a tree falls it's because of his will. God created all of us. As people of faith — conservative and …