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- Season of Creation Part TwoThe celebration of the Season of Creation doesn’t end until October 4. How appropriate that it lands during autumn when trees burst into color. It was just announced that Pope Francis’s second letter on the environment is Laudate Deum (Praise God). Here is another post related to creation. First, here is a prayer from the…
- Season of CreationYou may already know that from September 1 through October 4 Christians are engaging in prayer and action for creation in a “Season of Creation.” October 4 happens to be the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and ecology. Pope Francis said, “In this Season of Creation, as followers of…
- Notre Dame Mission AppealThis weekend I will drive to West Virginia to speak at a parish about our Notre Dame missions. In preparing my talk, I learned more about our Sisters amazing work in foreign countries. Here is the bulk of my presentation . . . We Notre Dames began missionary efforts in 1949 in Jamalpur, India. We…
- Ten Ways to Love from the BibleRecently I came across a helpful post on Facebook. Someone found ten specific ways to love in Scripture. As I pass them on to you, I offer a comment or two about each one…. 2. Trust without wavering (1 Corinthians 13:7). Love means your reliance on someone is constant, not fickle. You believe that you…
- Love, Seen by All as the Chief Virtue: Christian LoveI’m writing this post on the feast of St. Augustine. Arguably his most famous words are the prayer “My heart is restless until it rests in you.” But he also said, “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”…