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Earth Literacy: What is it?

Earth Literacy To make ourselves worthy of the blessing by this continent is the task to which we dedicate ourselves…that all the children of Earth might walk serenely into the future as a single sacred community. Thomas Berry An inadequate understanding of our place and purpose as humans in the natural order of things has brought us to the current reality of Earth in severe crisis. Industrialized societies are unraveling Earth’s fabric of life. This unraveling is not simply due to a failure of religious or moral values. It is, rather, our framework for thinking and action that must change. Seeing our context as a continuously developing Universe suggests a radically different understanding: Earth is a living planet and our human species is a single thread in a seamless garment of life. Based on the insights of geologian Thomas Berry and mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme, Earth Literacy programs at Genesis Farm provide contemporary scientific understandings of the evolution of the Universe, Earth, life, and human consciousness as a single unfolding process. Through the perspective of this new cosmology, we can understand both why and how we must change direction to participate in the healing and flourishing of life. [Read More] Read more...

Emerging Spirituality

New Spirituality                           Our journey of the past twenty years has seen the original inspiration of Edmund Rice recaptured and reclaimed by the Christian Brothers both internationally and locally. This has been for our ministries an awakening to the Edmund Rice charism. Where were you twenty years ago? What have you learned from the past twenty years?   THE CONGREGATION STORY         The wisdom the Brothers gleaned from the last twenty years can be summed up as an awakening. It can be explained as a movement from: Church to Kingdom Law to Gospel a controlling and exclusive God to a liberating & larger God parochialism to internationality a predominantly clerical spirituality to an emerging fraternal/familial spirituality. The brothers theme for 2008 and beyond is: God has revealed a new face to us... In doing this they heard the Call to Discipleship - Come and share in my experience of God!  THE JESUS STORY                  Discipleship moved Jesus in 3... Read more...

Reflection:Introduction

Peace I Leave with You This page will link you to various reflective pieces submitted by our contributors. Sunday Readings Each Thursday Br Julian McDonald posts an insightful reflection on the Sunday Readings in the light of current events, attitudes and Challenges. Reflections From East Timor Richard Walsh shares with us his reflections on living the gospels in the East Timor setting.  His deep faith and... Read more...

Prayer Books and other...

Bruce Pewer Poems and Prayers Resources for Common Lectionary Australians at Prayer Australian Prayers Australian Psalms Additional Worship Resources Creeds of Life Poems for Pilgrims Prayers for Sojourners Prayers on the words of Jesus Heritage Prayers Sample Prayer by Bruce D Prewer TRUST AND OBEY I pass on to each of youthat we have first receivedfrom a friend of the Lord Jesus:  ... Read more...

Sunday Readings

All are Invited .... .[ Other Reflective writing ]   . .Reflections on the  . .Sunday Readings 2010  . .by Br Julian McDonald  .  This week: . .22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time    21th Sunday in Ordinary Time   20th Sunday in Ordinary Time   19th Sunday in Ordinary Time      18th Sunday in Ordinary Time... Read more...