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...

                          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...