by Care for Creation - St Francis | Sep 26, 2021 | Care for Creation
“Towards an Ever Wider ‘We’ ” Catholics have been observing the World Day of Migrants and Refugees since 1914, each year recognizing the vulnerability of displaced persons, while embracing the opportunities that arise when migrants and refugees are supported in their...
by Care for Creation - St Francis | Sep 26, 2021 | Care for Creation
The Pan-Amazon nations, our South American neighbors, are home to the world’s largest rainforest and millions of indigenous persons. The importance of this region for both its immense biodiversity and climate stabilizing capacity, cannot be overstated. Yet, after...
by Care for Creation - St Francis | Sep 26, 2021 | Care for Creation
A first-ever joint statement by Christian leaders urging citizens and world leaders alike to address the moral and life issues underpinning the current ecological crisis, marked this second week of the 2021 Season of Creation. Pope Francis joined Ecumenical Patriarch...
by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Sep 24, 2021 | Friar Reflection
In today’s first reading we hear from the Prophet Haggai, who ministered in the post exilic period when the Jewish people, under a grant from King Cyrus of Persia, returned to Jerusalem. But it was not the Jerusalem remembered by their parents and grandparents. This...
by Fr. Jim Scullion OFM | Sep 23, 2021 | Friar Reflection
In today’s Gospel we hear that Herod the tetrarch was seeking to see Jesus: “Herod kept trying to see him.” Why? Herod had heard all the wondrous things that Jesus was doing. People were saying that “John has been raised from the dead.” After Herod had imprisoned...
