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… of Nairobi, used to sit on a blanket and make their beaded handicrafts under the shade of a tree in the church courtyard. But with the arrival of a new store in a converted container, …

… or to  NCR ! Sing Advent hymns and make an Advent wreath and don't decorate your Christmas tree until Christmas Eve. Oh yes, and pray for the country. [Michael Sean Winters is  NCR …

… There's a lot there," Bhatnagar said. Once preliminary data had been collected, several large trees and shrubs were planted along the front of the school. Bhatnagar said the idea was to …

… three weeks, the sprouts will be plentiful, accenting the Nativity scene under the Christmas tree. There are different versions of St. Barbara's story. Legend says she was the beautiful … of the Trinity. During her time of imprisonment, St. Barbara kept a branch from a cherry tree, which she watered from her cup. On Dec. 4, when her father decapitated her for refusing to … Trinity — are green, they are used to decorate the creche, usually placed under the Christmas tree. The French saying is "Quand le ble va bien, tout va bien." or "When the wheat goes well, …

… where hiking through mountains and along rivers was easily accessible. He once planted 200 trees on a friend's property for an eighth-grade science project as a way to reduce carbon. "I …

… us like a thief in the night. To resist needed change is to risk an ax to the root of the tree, a winnowing fan that separates the wheat from the chaff. A door has opened. The poor hear …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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). …

… "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 …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… … (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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …