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Kindness inspires parishioner's commitment to her Brooklyn church
… the Windsor Terrace section of Brooklyn in 1961, shortly before my second birthday. It was a tree-lined block located between Greenwood Cemetery and Prospect Park and my mother would often …
After Typhoon Haiyan, Mercy Sisters in Philippines rebuild school, hospital
… buildings of the school that had served 1,500 students in shambles under a thicket of fallen trees and debris. Damaged, too, was the adjacent 50-bed hospital the sisters ran. "Sisters had … gone,'" she remembers. "I went down and I couldn't see anything because it was covered with trees." She didn't recognize the school, she said, and was unable to even see the roads because of all the fallen trees. More frightening, "I really didn't know what to do," she said. "We had no money, no way to …
For Ursuline sister, every day is World Food Day
… site by planting a weeping willow, and have since begun filling the stream bank with native trees and shrubs. Wildlife has taken note. "We have tons of snakes that are adapting," Pratt told …
Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
… Zacchaeus means “righteous” or “pure.” And he was short. That is how he ended up in a sycamore tree. On … https://greattreasures.org … , where those of us who don’t read Greek can gain a bit …
Final resting place: Vatican releases instruction on burial, cremation
… of "forest burials," where people pay to have their ashes in urns interred at the base of a tree in a designated forest burial ground, Müller said the German bishops were not thrilled with the idea, but accepted it with the proviso that the tree be marked with the name of the person buried at its base. In the United States and other … the environment and seeing the body of the deceased primarily as fertilizer for plants and trees. …
Latin, immigration, science anchor memoirs
… essays about her own life with those describing plants, she discusses various vines, fungi, trees, leaves, roots, soil, grass, flowers and fruits. Writing up-close and with attention to …
Mother Teresa and the secular scribe
… one of the nation's wealthiest enclaves, with billionaires housed in gated mansions amid palm trees and seaside vistas. Is it possible, I wondered, that the servant of the poorest of the poor …
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… 11:5-8) and the gardener whose unremitting activity of cultivating and fertilizing the fig tree is described with the same vocabulary as our widow’s persistent “bothering” (Luke 13:6-8). …
A struggling Cleveland parish digs deep to help Haitian mission
… "All but one grower has lost their house; they have lost all their animals and most of their trees." Losing their animals, "every single one," is devastating, said Francois, because "this is …
An immersion into protected natural beauty
… about nesting flamingos and albatross (which we saw), not politics. But each bird and frog and tree is precious. Back home, we have to pay better attention, take better care. …
Guide offers ways to make life a little bit holier
… Other chapters walk readers through setting up the crèche and the practice of decorating the tree. Another fun fact: Christmas Eve is the feast day of Adam and Eve, and Germans in the 16th century first put up "paradise trees" to honor them. Musick suggests placing figures of the two on the tree and treating the trimming as a communal event, inviting single friends and others for the …
Catholic Charities agencies assess damage, begin helping storm victims
… … (Oct. 10, 2016) Kathleen Bagg, director of communications for the diocese, said downed trees littered the property of the Mission Nombre de Dios and the Shrine of Our Lady of Le Leche. A tree fell onto the roof of the Our Lady of Le Leche Chapel, she said, but did not cause damage to …
'Our faith can change our world'
… into reality and happen. Jesus says, "Faith as tiny as a mustard seed can move a deeply rooted tree from where it is out into the sea." Our faith can change our world, can bring about an end …
Philippine church marks anniversary amid typhoon recovery
… also helped establish livelihood projects, such as carpentry, woodcraft (using fallen coconut trees), pig and fish farms, and making hollow blocks for construction. Before the storm, this …
David Bentley Hart and the radicalness of the Gospel
… disciples, and us, that if we had faith the size of a mustard seed, we could tell the mulberry tree to be uprooted and plant itself in the sea, and it would do so. How many of us actually …
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
… us ever mindful of God’s abiding presence. Jesus’ images of the mustard seed and the mulberry tree graphically illustrate the power of faith to move the unmovable and accomplish what appears … that even the minutest amount of faith can have amazing consequences. The black mulberry tree had quite an extensive root system, and the effort needed to uproot such a tree could be described as herculean. Moreover, the idea of transplanting a tree into the sea …
Stir the flame of faith
… us ever mindful of God's abiding presence. Jesus' images of the mustard seed and the mulberry tree graphically illustrate the power of faith to move the unmovable and accomplish what appears …
A whole universe, but inside, not outside
… a couple times a year for some wilderness time, and each winter to cut down a Christmas tree. The air was crisp and clean -- especially in comparison to the smog in the San Fernando Valley where we lived -- and smelled of sage and pine. Scrubby Joshua trees studded the brown hills, we had to watch our feet for rattlesnake holes, and it was, to me, …
Shimon Peres, known for efforts to achieve peace, dies at 93
… month of his presidency. Along with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, he planted an olive tree at the invitation of Pope Francis. The evening of peace prayers and the tree planting had been initiated by the pope following his pilgrimage a month earlier to the Holy … Peres' belief in the power of people of faith, Pope Francis invited Peres to plant the olive tree in the Vatican Gardens, Shomali told Catholic News Service. "It was an interreligious …
Pope Francis to new bishops: Dispense mercy, don't be 'charming liars'
… by life and in need of a helping hand. Church leaders today often "ask too much fruit of trees that have not been sufficiently cultivated," and he said bishops should accompany their …