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Live simply. Live prayerfully. Live in peace.

Living Like Francis Today puts you in touch with the God of love and mercy Pope Francis wants us to know.  Each of the six short chapters begins and ends with a simple prayer from scripture or from the writing of St. Francis.  Short reflections invite you to apply the themes in your own life. ReadContinue reading “Live simply. Live prayerfully. Live in peace.”

Evolution Revealing God’s Creative and Sustaining Love

Cosmos cards are a simple and touching way to tell the story to those near and dear to you. Each of the 25 postcards has a fact about one of God’s creative moves. And a message to us: You are loved. These are cards ready to mail as a postcard for someone who needs aContinue reading “Evolution Revealing God’s Creative and Sustaining Love”

Honor the Earth

Today is a world-wide day to honor and support Earth. We suggest three websites to help you and your family think about your responsibility for our common home. May Earth Day be a blessing to you and may you be a blessing to Earth. Catholic Climate Covenant: http://www.catholicclimatecovenant.orgEarth Day 2020: https://www.earthday.org/Laudato Si, exhortation of PopeContinue reading “Honor the Earth”

Tiny Retreat #2: Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen: Patron saint of green and growing Hildegard was only five years old in 1098 when her parents brought her, their tenth child, to the monastery of St. Disibode. A holy woman named Jutta took the little girl in and taught her Latin and music so she could sing the psalms with the monksContinue reading “Tiny Retreat #2: Hildegard of Bingen”

Honor the Earth

Today is a world-wide day to honor and support Earth. We suggest three websites to help you and your family think about your responsibility for our common home. May Earth Day be a blessing to you and may you be a blessing to Earth. Catholic Climate Covenant: http://www.catholicclimatecovenant.org
 Earth Day 2019: https://www.earthday.org/ Laudato Si, exhortation of PopeContinue reading “Honor the Earth”

Can You Make A Prairie?

Emily Dickinson could say it with a few words and rhythm. Memorize this poem and say it to yourself at odd times, when you have a break in the action. It may induce revery. Or a prairie. Or… To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee. AndContinue reading “Can You Make A Prairie?”

The Summer Day

The Summer Day by Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean– the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth insteadContinue reading “The Summer Day”