Lorcan McDermott sent us this latest news:
We are planning to show and discuss the film The Letter which tells the story of Laudato Si’ and the impact of the climate crisis. It features Pope Francis, climate activists, refugees and scientists. Available on YouTube, it should provide very useful background to the UN Climate Change Conference later this year.
Book club members have just finished reading and discussing Every Bush Aflame: Science God and the Natural World. The author John Feehan, a scientist with wide ranging interests, examines the progress in scientific understanding of the natural world and how this facilitates the development of a new spiritual understanding of that world.
At one of our Masses for the Season of Creation we were amused by a quirky but insightful poem by Rob Bell entitled Walk Don’t Run. The following is an extract.
Efficiency is not God’s highest goal for your life,
neither is busyness,
or how many things you can get done in one day,
or speed, or even success.
But walking, which leads to seeing,
now that’s something.
That’s the invitation for every one of us today,
and every day, in every conversation, interaction, event,
and moment: to walk, not run.
And in doing so,
to see a whole world right here within this one