Combating Food Waste – Pope Francis’s address to the European Food Banks Federation: “It is scandalous today not to notice how precious food is as a good, and how so much good ends up so badly.” (Food & Wine, Nov.
Caring for Our Common Home: Ponder the Wonders of God’s Creation…
Happy St. Valentine’s Day Ponder the wonders of God’s Creation: Laudato Si` invites us to see nature as a magnificent book in which God speaks to us and grants us a glimpse of His infinite beauty and goodness. ~ L.S.
Caring for Our Common Home: A Personal Experience
Here’s a personal experience of a parishioner in our Collaborative, who is thinking globally and acting locally, helping our environment. Laudato Si` invites us to look at ways we put into action Care of our Common Home simply by starting
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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