SEASON OF CREATION 2022 DAILY THOUGHTS
Introduction. The ecumenical Season of Creation begins on 1 September with World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation and ends on 4 October the feastday of St Francis. Supported by many churches including the Catholic Church it offers a range of resources and…
CREATION AND THE SEASON OF CREATION
The Tree of Life. It is the end of the month of August, Women’s month in South Africa, with MARFAM’s focus on Sexuality as a Family Gift. SA focused strongly on gender-based violence, a serious social problem, as well as women’s rights. From a social perspective…
THE SPIRIT OF GOD-LOVE
PENTECOST, CHRISTIAN UNITY AND WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY. It was a week and a day filled with possibilities one could say, as each of the commemorations could speak to the presence and the work of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus, the personification of love. The…
PENTECOST AND WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
June 5. Pentecost. Also World Environment Day. Jock said, “Pentecost has always and traditionally been celebrated as the birthday of the Church. It was the day on which in such a dramatic way, through the tongues of fire, the apostles received the gift of…
Ascension. Living Laudato Si in our lives.
Reflect, share and act. Scripture. May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called…
LAUDATO SI WEEK SATURDAY ECOLOGICAL SPIRITUALITY
May 28. Laudato Si week. Saturday theme: Ecological Spirituality. Festival at Assisi. Reflect, share, act and pray. Assisi will always be associated with St Francis, the 12th century saint, who Pope Francis continually uses as his…
LAUDATO SI WEEK FRIDAY. ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION
May 27. Reflect, share, act and pray. Ecological education can take place in a variety of settings: at school, in families, in the media, in catechesis and elsewhere. Good education plants seeds when we are young, and these continue to bear fruit throughout life….
LAUDATO SI WEEK. THURSDAY THEME: SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES
May 26. Reflect, share and act. CAFOD WITNESS. Travelling the livesimply journey. Brenda Underwood is livesimply co-ordinator at the Brentwood Cathedral parish of St Mary and St Helen’s. The parish was the first Cathedral in the UK to win this national award for…
LAUDATO SI WEEK. WEDNESDAY THEME: ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
May 25. Reflect, share and act. CAFOD witness. “The Lord gave me strength to swim. ”In November 2013, one of the most powerful cyclones ever to make landfall hit the Philippines. During Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, the wind gusted up to 235km…
LAUDATO SI WEEK, CARE OF CREATION AND OUR FAMILIES
Did you know that dark chocolate can actually repair blood vessels? And that green tea can help reduce inflammation and cut off the blood supply that feeds cancer cells? Also that eating the right foods could reduce the severity of long Covid? These questions are not…
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