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Storms tear through South amid pandemic; more than 30 dead
… said three people were killed in and around Chattanooga, and others died under falling trees or inside collapsed buildings in Arkansas and North Carolina. With a handful of tornadoes … in the good Lord," said Phillips. The National Weather Service tallied hundreds of reports of trees down across the region, including many that punctured roofs and downed power lines. … with his children in the bathtub of his mobile home, which was cut in two by a falling tree. "It got quiet and then the wind started coming in really fast," said Baggett, 33. To the …
Finding a new story amid the pandemic
… we dream of clean air, sustainable farming, a just economy, perhaps the glimpse of a hawk in a tree. This is time for reimagining a whole and holy Garden. -- Margaret Small is a mother, …
Practice Resurrection
… Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years… Go with your love to the fields. Lie easy in the shade. Rest your …
As coronavirus death rates multiply, these monks are giving away caskets
… want a business that creates unnecessary burdens for them," said Mulgrew. They grow their own trees on 1,600 acres of forest — the state's second-largest privately owned forest. They harvest …
Pope on Palm Sunday: Life, measured by love, is meant to serve others
… per pew; just eight people sang in the choir. The basilica was decorated with a potted olive tree and greenery. Also displayed were the "Salus Populi Romani" (health of the Roman people) …
Palm Sunday and Palm Oil
… John 12:12-13 … While the palms used in the gospel to welcome Jesus did not come from oil palm trees, this Palm Sunday we reflect on how conventional palm oil is hiding in many of the packaged …
Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion: 'Hosanna!'
… wouldn't be separated from her foal. Instead of flaunting imperial banners, the people waved tree branches, a burlesque of the feathered fans slaves had to keep in constant motion lest their …
History warns us: Crises like COVID-19 can give rise to great evil
… for whatever reasons, failed to deliver on that objective. They call these bills "Christmas tree bills" because everyone gets to ask for whatever they want and the willingness to swallow … one's own wishes that would, in normal times, be opposed by the party opposite. Christmas tree bills are always an exercise in fiscal irresponsibility. Now, however, they are … enforcement last week , citing the virus too. The less obvious reason these Christmas tree bills are irresponsible is that they necessarily rest on the claim, not usually stated, that …
D.C.'s quiet emphasizes value of community and consolation
… prayer. Many churches are putting services online. Many parishes have organized telephone trees and virtual communities. I'm reaching out to people by phone, not just texting and email. …
Pandemic fosters creativity as dioceses move through Lent into Holy Week
… is meant to be a reminder that people are not alone. Parishioners are taking part in phone trees, calling to check on vulnerable members of the parish. Others are donating grocery store … shared with families and elderly parishioners in need. Other volunteers are part of a phone tree, calling elderly and vulnerable parishioners, as well as delivering groceries and medicine …
Having the time of my life
… I will never break my commitment to her. All of my history is in that moment, just as a tree and all its branches and leaves are in the acorn. I could not, would not, cannot change …
From curse to blessing
… curse. In Galatians 3, St. Paul quotes Deuteronomy 21, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.” The journey to faith revealed the startling truth that from this curse came the blessing …
Children's Ode to Food
… skin Growing, Growing From a tropical place The banana Plucked From its mother Strong, sturdy tree The banana With brothers and sisters All in a bunch At the market Plucked from siblings From … Age 7 Oh broccoli, it smells like the beautiful nature. To me, I think of broccoli as little trees. Broccoli is delicious. Broccoli grows from the ground. You have to wash the broccoli to …
Links for 3/27/20
… thought during times of crisis and even then, more as a Madisonian budgetary Christmas tree than as something oriented to the common good. We Americans have been trying to wiggle …
What do we learn from this place where we don't want to be?
… of coronavirus — are all lifelines of normalcy in surreal days. On a park bench surrounded by trees on a bright afternoon, I open a book. The author quotes from David Wagoner's poem " Lost ." Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must …
NCR readers share acts of kindness amid coronavirus pandemic
… using some thoughts from Franciscan Fr. Richard Rohr to focus, along with contemplating the trees beyond my apartment window, now beginning to green out and flower. I also pray morning and …
A Future Not Our Own
… morning chores on the farm. Did you know that asparagus grows from the ground like tiny trees ? I was particularly moved when one morning Eric, a caretaker and director of the farm, …
Living water
… life wherever there was fresh water from rivers, watering holes and wells, producing fruit trees and lush foliage. Today’s Scripture readings invoke these images for us at a time when …
Is St. Corona the patron saint of pandemics?
… and killed for his Christian faith. Afterward, she, too, was martyred — tied between two palm trees that had been bent to the ground and torn apart when the trees were allowed to snap back to full height. She's not the patron saint of pandemics or …
Despite looming pandemic, intrepid pilgrims honor church foremothers
… texts are a bit misleading implying that this smallest of seeds grows into a large shrub or tree. But in ancient times, the mustard plant was considered a weed — ubiquitous and once rooted, …