Since Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si (In Praise of Creation) was published in 2015, there has been renewed energy around the topic of our very real responsibility to take a vested interest in the welfare of our planet–and all who depend upon its resources. It has sparked more than a little controversy
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Opening Prayer If you like to use music in prayer, U2’s One might be an interesting spin on a musical reflection on the call to community, family & participation. Loving God, you have set before us the greatest commandment which is to ‘love God with our heart, soul and mind, while loving our neighbor as ourselves.’ In
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Opening Prayer: If you like to use music in prayer, I might suggest this song as a beautiful meditation on inviting God to work through our efforts: He Is Among Us, by the Porter’s Gate. *Based on Matthew 25: 31-46 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me
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Opening Prayer If you like to use music in prayer, I might suggest this virtual performance of We Are Called, by the St. Paul Young Adult Choir: https://youtu.be/TsQ_kANdM6U Loving God, Three in One, You created persons for one another; a reflection of Trinitarian relationship. So hungry for relationship are we, that ‘Our hearts are restless until we
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Opening Prayer For those wishing to begin with an opening song, I’d recommend this one. A good Scripture passage would be 1 Corinthians 6: 19-20 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been
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Opening Prayer: If you like to use music in prayer, I suggest this song as a beautiful meditation on inviting God to work through our efforts: He Is Among Us, by the Porter’s Gate. *Based on Matthew 25: 31-46 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink,
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This month, I get to celebrate a birthday, an anniversary, a funeral, and a Baptism. Four distinct snapshots of a life—my own and others’. Birthday It’s no secret that July is my favorite month: watermelon, sweet corn, sunflowers, bees, books, writing, hikes, pools—and very little structure on the calendar. What’s not to love?! In a
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There’s been a long radio silence on my end—not for any particular reason, just the ebb and flow of the end of the school year and change of seasons that make a gal’s creative juices available at all times to all people and my words don’t always make it out onto the keyboard. I hope
St. Joseph the Worker I wrote the reflection for the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker over on the Blessed Is She Blog this week and it provided some really interesting context for yesterday’s feast—and in light of the events in Paris yesterday, some helpful context. The Feast of St. Joseph the Worker was initiated in 1955
The season of Lent is often referred to as a journey or a desert—a place to be navigated as foreigners on the search. The Old Testament stories remind us that there is no preparing for the events that unfold, or how they unfold in our own hearts. I’ve mentioned it before, but if you need
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