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Caring for Our Common Home: Taking Small Steps…

Caring for Our Common Home: Taking Small Steps…

Electronics, especially smart ones, are constantly draining power. This affects electric power plants’ use of renewable clean energy sources and their need for CO2 emission sources for energy generation to homes, offices and stores. Energy conservation is not complicated. By taking small steps towards living a more energy-conscious lifestyle, you

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Caring for Our Common Home: A Prayer for Our Earth

Caring for Our Common Home: A Prayer for Our Earth

All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect life and beauty. Fill us with peace, that we may live as brothers

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Caring for Our Common Home: Let Us Dream…

Caring for Our Common Home: Let Us Dream…

For many of us, the start of a New Year is a time of reflection and a call to action. This is especially true now as we face the dire consequences from COVID-19 and climate change. Both of these crises have revealed that all humanity is inextricably connected. They have

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Caring for Our Common Home: Be a Part of the Conversation

Caring for Our Common Home: Be a Part of the Conversation

We are now celebrating the 5th anniversary of the Encyclical Letter, Laudato Si’: Care of our Common Home. What could be more fitting than starting a dialogue on how to create our own version of a “common home” here in Wellesley? As Pope Francis stated before a Joint Session of

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Caring for Our Common Home: Time to Make a New Start…

Caring for Our Common Home: Time to Make a New Start…

Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also capable of rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start. (LS #205) It’s that time of year again… time to make a new start, time for New Year’s resolutions. How will you change your behavior this

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Caring for Our Common Home: The Object of Mercy

Caring for Our Common Home: The Object of Mercy

Christmas is here ~ CHRIST BE OUR LIGHT! We hope you are enjoying a spirit-filled Christmas! Gifts from the heart supporting those in need bring the light of Christ to all, giving joy to the world. We usually think of the works of mercy individually and in relation to a

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Caring for Our Common Home: Living in Gratitude and Harmony with Creation

Caring for Our Common Home: Living in Gratitude and Harmony with Creation

“Purchasing is always a moral – and not simply economic – act.” Pope Francis [L.S.146] Now that the season of giving is upon us, it is important that we take a moment to reflect on what it is we are purchasing and how our purchases impact our environment. Looking at

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Caring for Our Common Home: Help Protect Mother Earth

Caring for Our Common Home: Help Protect Mother Earth

Why Fuss About Idling? According to the US Department of Energy, idling for more than 10 seconds uses more fuel and produces more smog and climate changing emissions than does stopping and restarting your car’s engine. The good news is that reducing idling is one of the simplest ways you

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Laudato Si’: God’s Loving Plan

Laudato Si’: God’s Loving Plan

In the Judaeo-Christian tradition, the word “creation” has a broader meaning than “nature”, for it has to do with God’s loving plan in which every creature has its own value and significance. Nature is usually seen as a system which can be studied, understood and controlled, whereas creation can only

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Laudato Si’: Putting Our Love Into Action

Laudato Si’: Putting Our Love Into Action

We put our faith in action in the way we vote with an informed conscience of the principles in Laudato Si` and Catholic Social Teaching. Respecting Dignity of Human Life encompasses human rights in feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, visiting the sick, policies for health care, refugees, immigration, prison

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