Care for Creation

Concern for Mother Earth Then and Now

by Mary Deborah Carlin, SND on April 27, 2016

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Some people might consider concern and care for Mother Earth something new and trendy. Far from it!  As far back as 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins was deeply touched by the violence done to all creation by people.  This is clear in his most famous work, GOD’S GRANDEUR.

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The Vastness of Everything

by Mary Deborah Carlin, SND on February 16, 2016

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Recently a group of Sisters of Notre Dame  gathered at Bethany, the retreat center at the Provincial Center  in Chardon, OH  to reflect on LAUDATO SI’, Pope Francis’ Encylcical on Care for God’s Creation.   The discussion starters were taken from eminent scholars  commenting on the gift of creation and the care we must take of our common home, […]

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The Gaudete Miracle – Paris Summit on Climate Change

by Mary Deborah Carlin, SND on December 22, 2015

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On Gaudete Sunday the world awoke to good news which people may call  a miracle.  Approximately two hundred individual nations listened to one another.  They mirrored ever so surely or tenuously (only time will tell) Pope Francis’ call to listen to one another.  The Paris Summit on Climate Change  “recognized that we are compelled to heed” […]

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Is Nature Trying to Get Our Attention?

by Emilia Castelletti, SND on July 20, 2015

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Some years ago, a retreat director, in fact Sr. Melannie Svoboda, SND,introduced me to a children’s book entitled Grandad’s Prayers of the Earth.  I got a copy after the retreat and pull it out from time to time.  It includes passages about how nature prays: …trees reach for heaven in prayer, …rocks are still, silent […]

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