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… brown Jesus who lived by fig and olive trees. As I continue to contemplate these moments in the light of Pope Francis' call and prayer …

… the pope is pictured on a background showing a dry landscape adorned with the local baobab tree and the native ravenala plant. It reflects in part how the nation has been a land of …

… holy, we must acknowledge that this warning is both serious and sacred. The parable of the fig tree that Jesus tells carries an important message. God is looking for fruitfulness from us in …

… the midday Angelus prayer. In his Angelus address, the pope focused on the parable of the fig tree from the day's Gospel reading. In the story, a landowner wants to chop down a fig tree that has borne no fruit in three years, but the gardener persuades him to allow him to fertilize it and give the tree another year. "The landowner symbolizes God the father and the gardener is the image of …

… House. He venerated the statue of Our Lady of Loreto, which in 1922 was carved out of cedar trees from the Vatican Gardens to copy the 14th-century figure destroyed in a fire. He then …

… wickedness. To follow up and reframe the theme, Jesus wove a parable about an unfruitful fig tree. Everyone in his audience knew the prodigious potential of fig trees: A new plant should bear fruit in two years, and then can often be harvested twice a year. … well calls us to conversion. If the Cycle C readings are used, the Gospel parable of the fig tree does the same. Build on whichever readings are utilized Sunday or perhaps use the opposite …

… airport and cut off access to the city by road. "People are stranded on roofs of houses and in trees, waiting for help," Dahl-Bredine said, noting that roads and bridges have been washed away. … that supplies are ready and airdrops are planned. Unrelenting rains, rockslides and fallen trees have destroyed roads and bridges in many places, making rescue efforts very difficult, she …

… the goal. If we are meant to see ourselves in the image of the chronically unproductive fig tree (mentioned in Luke's Gospel on the Third Sunday of Lent), we might note that the tree is given a reprieve, so to speak, because the gardener (unlike the owner who wants to cut it down) is willing to help the tree along — to work on it, cultivate it, and feed it — so that it might eventually produce …

… depictions of the Immaculate Conception, St. Luke the Evangelist, St. Anthony and the Tree of Life are also on view, and an 18th-century "Franciscan Allegory in Honor of the …

… being in the streets, (by) many people who prefer to continue making kindling out of a fallen tree, (for) spending winter on that bench," Rojas said with tears in his eyes. …

… many allusions to the nature of growth and decay. The definitive metaphor is that only healthy trees bear fruit; the rest are simply cast aside. Accordingly, Scripture says, "As you sow, so … a tie between quality of purpose and worth of yield. He also mysteriously curses a barren fig tree and uses the example of a man who was required to return a coin to his benefactor because he …

… survivor and French national hero Simone Veil, who is interred in the Pantheon. A grove of trees planted to honor the memory of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old French Jew who was kidnapped, …

… and just scraped the ground. There are slabs where homes formerly stood, debris everywhere, trees snapped, whole forested areas where trees are snapped and lying on the ground." …

… exposes the worthless husks and the smelting of oar reveals the dross. Just as the fruit of a tree indicates clearly how well it has been tended, so does speech reveal a person's mind, how it …

… then south and come home down Alamo Avenue. I watch my neighborhood through the seasons, the trees budding, then flowering, then bare, then frosted with snow. I watch the lawn ornaments as …

… today’s liturgical psalm claims that the just will flourish to become as elegant as the palm trees, as strong as the cedars. This is not the promise that nothing will ever happen to them, …

… bond between the people, as community, and the presence of God expressed in the land, the trees, the rivers," said Moema Miranda, a lay Franciscan who heads the Churches and Mining …

… we are more comfortable with Psalm 1 which declares that those who love God are like trees planted near streams that yield their fruit and whose leaves never wither. We want to … either, especially in the first reading and the psalm. The images of the barren bush and the tree planted by the water can be incorporated into the petitions as well as, perhaps into an …

… He and others point to seminarians' wide-ranging work histories that include pruning apple trees, filling prescriptions, teaching school, and working in real estate. For his part, Park …

… helping haul 400-lb. steel pipes up a mountain in the Honduran heat and humidity, using trees and 10 or 15 people to bend the pipes as needed, twisting giant pipe wrenches to thread …