Laudato Si

Plus PRAYER AND BLESSING FOR PETS AND OTHER CREATURES to prepare for feast of St Francis. October 3. FAMILIES WALK THE TALK.     (From BECOMING ECO-FRIENDLY FAMILIES)  To “walk the talk” means to actively live out what we believe, to “put your money where your mouth…

Full MARFAM updates for OCTOBER to follow. October 2. Guardian angels.  There is a very long tradition in the church of devotion to our guardian angels.   In recent years this seems to have faded with a greater interest in angels in general.   We often see pictures of…

September 30.  CLEANUP-TIME 2025.  .   (From BECOMING ECO-FRIENDLY FAMILIES)  The website https://www.worldcleanupday.org   reports that on September 20, 2024, World Cleanup Day, people in 211 countries, 10 000s of volunteers, stood…

September 29. Feast of the Archangels, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael.    There is a lot of interest in angels in popular culture nowadays. Fr James explained. “Angels and spirits are mentioned in various places in the Bible.  Angels are creatures of…

September 28.  26th Sunday C   GOD SAID “LET THERE BE LIGHT.”    (From BECOMING ECO-FRIENDLY FAMILIES)  God said, “Let there be light.”   Adam pushed the button on the wall of their cave.   Nothing happened. “No…

September 27.  ANIMAL FARMING.   (From BECOMING ECO-FRIENDLY FAMILIES)  Norah came home from her confirmation class full of fire.  She shared, “We had a sexy young speaker today, a climate activist and university student.  He spoke on…

September 26.   DISCERNMENT.  A Look at Life. The family had spent some weeks on an eco-safari, observing and absorbing the world around them.  The relaxed  atmosphere they had achieved had given them a different view of life. “Today people rush into everything, want…

September 25.   CHILDREN DESERVE A FUTURE. (From BECOMING ECO-FRIENDLY FAMILIES) The sodality leader stated, “The place of children – or let me say offspring – changes from time to time in our world of families. Who can remember the time, not too long ago,…