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Volume 10.07 | April 25, 2022
In this Issue:

Assembly in Brazil

Menino Jesus Sisters Make Laudato Si Commitment

Earth Day at Canticle Farm

Franciscan Center Celebrates Earth Day

Assembly in Brazil
By: Margaret Magee OSF
The Congregational Leadership is currently in Brazil participating in the Regional Assembly. On the first day of the Assembly the leadership presented and facilitated the Conversations for Our Life Together, the first phase on the process of transformation and the work we will be doing with Ted Dunn. The other days of the Assembly focused on Regional planning, updates on the synodal process and how it is proceeding in each diocese and parish as well as presentations on financial matters and Canonical and Civil Law.

The Assembly weekend concluded on Sunday evening, April 24, with the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of Sr. Maria José Monteiro OSF and the Golden Jubilee of Sr. Neides de Lourdes Aparecida Cabral OSF. Jubilate Deo!
Menino Jesus Sisters Make Laudato Si Commitment
We, the Sisters of Menino Jesus Community, share our effort to work in harmony with our Chapter Statement, which challenges us every day in the face of the dangers and threats of our common home. This is the challenge of Integral Ecology.

Laudato Sí, warns us of the various points that we can experience in our daily lives in this care of the common home, especially the care for those who are most affected, mainly the poor, assuring them of their inalienable dignity. Pope Francis concludes by saying: “humanity still has the capacity to collaborate in the construction of our common home” (n.13).

This writing that brings hope, without, however, failing to point out the imbalances of the human race in the conservation of the planet, the unique home we inhabit. This imbalance is sickening the Earth, in a broad sense, and its inhabitants, all the more evident with the pandemic that has been introduced in the world. Pope Francis consoles us by saying that “the Creator does not abandon us, he never backs away from his plan of love, nor does he regret having created us”. (Gilberto Aurélio Bordini and Isadora Maria Souza)

Our mission at Santa Casa does not escape this care, because taking care of the poor, sick and vulnerable is to do Integral Ecology. It is to experience the mercy of God. All this is experienced by us and by everyone who works with us.

In addition, in our local planning, we propose to partner with the Comunidade do Mãe Admirável to continue the Sister and Mother Earth Project and promote formative and celebratory activities based on Church documents, in particular – Laudato Sí, on Integral Ecology .

We are grateful for our Chapter 2021 Statement that motivates us to live to promote peace and educate ourselves in the understanding of Integral Ecology!
Canticle Farm Celebrates Earth Day
By: Gina Anderson, Canticle Farm President


Canticle Farm's Earth Day Open House was a success! We had a wonderful community turnout. The weather could not have been nicer and it was wonderful to have the community back on the farm.

The day's events included children's yoga, a talk on sustainability by Dr. Karie Altman of St. Bonaventure University, farm tours, a scavenger hunt and eco-friendly craft stations.

A follow-up event is taking place on Saturday, May 7 for a community trash pick-up in Olean. Volunteers will meet behind Marshalls in Olean at 1 p.m. All are welcome and invited to participate!
Franciscan Center Celebrates Earth Day
By: Vicky McCarthy, Franciscan Center Community Relations Specialist


Thank you to the City of Tampa for blessing us with two new crape myrtle trees in honor of Earth Day 2022. Friars from Sacred Heart Church, Tampa, were on hand to say an Earth Day prayer and bless these two beautiful additions to our landscape.