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Top Stories published by Journeying Through Lent with Laudato Si’ in February of 2018

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Drew Reynolds in Journeying Through Lent with Laudato Si’

2/28: Honeyguides and honeybadgers

What birds teaming up with badgers teach us about interdependence

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The universe as a whole, in all its manifold relationships, shows forth the inexhaustible riches of God... We understand better the…

Drew Reynolds in Journeying Through Lent with Laudato Si’

On (Not) Giving Up the Environment For Lent

Journeying through Lent with Pope Francis and Laudato Si’

Each year I find myself colliding into Lent. Most years I’m able to get my life together enough to show up at Mass and receive ashes…

Drew Reynolds in Journeying Through Lent with Laudato Si’

2/27: A Sabbath for the Environment

Sabbath, sabbatical, and jubilee as invitations to give nature a rest

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On the seventh day, God rested from all his work. He commanded Israel to set aside each seventh day as a day of rest, a Sabbath, (cf…

Drew Reynolds in Journeying Through Lent with Laudato Si’

2/14: St. Francis of Assisi

What wildflowers can teach us about prayer, fasting, and almsgiving

This is the first post of a 2018 Lenten reflection series on the environment drawing inspiration from Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’…

Drew Reynolds in Journeying Through Lent with Laudato Si’

2/19: The Power of Encounter

Hearing the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor

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Many professionals, opinion makers, communications media and centers of power, being located in affluent urban areas, are far…

Drew Reynolds in Journeying Through Lent with Laudato Si’

2/21: Into Great Silence

Carthusian Monks, the Interior Life, and the Environment

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When media and the digital world become omnipresent, their influence can stop people from learning how to live wisely, to think…

Drew Reynolds in Journeying Through Lent with Laudato Si’

2/26: What harvesting and gleaning teaches us about Lent

The gift of the earth belongs to everyone

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The gift of the earth with its fruits belongs to everyone. Those who tilled and kept the land were…

Drew Reynolds in Journeying Through Lent with Laudato Si’

2/22: Choosing Inaction

Cheerful Recklessness in the Face of Crisis

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At the same time we can note the rise of a false or superficial ecology which bolsters complacency and a cheerful recklessness. As often occurs in…

Drew Reynolds in Journeying Through Lent with Laudato Si’

2/23: Vida campesina

Farm Life, Aparecida, and “Tilling and Keeping”

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“[The Genesis creation narratives] suggest that human life is grounded in three fundamental and closely intertwined relationships: with God, with our…

Drew Reynolds in Journeying Through Lent with Laudato Si’

2/15: I Got Worms in the Mail

Vermicomposting and the Throwaway Culture

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It is hard for us to accept that the way natural ecosystems work is exemplary: plants synthesize nutrients which feed herbivores; these in turn…

These were the top 10 stories published by Journeying Through Lent with Laudato Si’ in February of 2018. You can also dive into daily archives for February of 2018 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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Journeying Through Lent with Laudato Si’

This publication is a collection of weekday Lenten reflections, questions, and prayers inspired by Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’.

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