2021 Calendar

2021 “Unfolding” by Nancy Earle CALENDAR WHISPERS OF WISDOM ... and HOPE What a privilege to share planet with its abundance of inhabitants. In Earth with an infinite variety of other hearing the whispers of wisdom, hope species! Blessed and privileged are and sense of purpose deepen. Hope all of us who call opens us to the beauty this beautiful planet waiting to be revealed. Earth our home! Our home is a communion We invite you to enter into of life, each aspect each month with a sense of inter-dependent with hope and anticipation for the all others. revelation each creature longs Hope leads us to anticipate “the more” to bestow. What are the people, longing to be revealed. Hope opens us This year through art and reflection, creatures, plants, mountains, beaches, to be grasped by the beauty and to we invite you, your friends, relatives etc. saying to us? What are the prepare for the augmentation of more and co-workers to listen to the whispers of Joy, Delight, Pleasure or beauty waiting to be revealed. Listen to whispers of wisdom ...and hope in Contentment swirling all around us? the whispers with hope. Notice the our home. Listening deeply opens our Hope for our beautiful Earth and for wisdom. hearts to love and our minds to know, a new sense of human and cosmic understand and celebrate our home purpose are in the whispers. Theologians and cosmologists tell us that beauty has not yet finished revealing itself. We are the ones whose hope and anticipation can provide the openness needed for the enhancement of beauty. We have little time left. This is the year to approach every aspect of our home with wonder, to listen profoundly to the whispers of hope and wisdom. Filled with hope, we will act more decisively for our common beautiful home, Earth! Invite your friends, relatives and co-workers into this adventure. The future will forever thank us! Meet the Artists Angela Chostner...... FEBRUARY and SEPTEMBER flow’ something better than what we had planned comes to life. The March image, “Trees”, Angela, a St Louis artist, has a background in graphic design and portrays the beautiful community that tree roots form – the care, communication and illustration. She notes that each painting she does starts with an nourishment they give in a gentle and quiet way could be a lesson for us. intention, prayer, and virtue focus – a process she calls “Paint dancing in Spirit”. In February, “Honor and Redemption” is featured – the artist Pat Willems, CSJ...... JUNE and DECEMBER Pat has taught watercolor painting at “The Well” spirituality center sees forgiveness as a bridge that brings us to a place of redemption and located in La Grange Park, IL since 2005. She is certified in art therapy restoration of honor. The second image, “Justice: Still She Sings”, used for September, is and spiritual direction. Sr. Pat loves to paint nature, people and about balance and the idea that most everything with Justice happens below the surface – landscapes and says “Self- expression is a privilege each of us has, and our thoughts, beliefs, internal influences. For there to be Justice, we must fix what is broken when used, unites us with the energy of God as Creator.” Her image for in ourselves, in our world. www.AngelaLChostnerArt.com June, depicts an urban garden with the city behind it. The December selection portrays a Sandy Bot-Miller...... AUGUST mother with two children and the need to provide food for her family- whether at home or Sandy is an artist-poet with a deep desire to address a personal and traveling to a new place to live. planetary search for peace, beauty and meaning. She strives to use imagery that expresses our human longing for connection and healing; Mary Southard, CSJ...... MAY and JULY Mary’s paintings and sculptures invite us to contemplate our sacred her love of fibers, and attention to archetypal images help to inform Universe, our sacred Earth and our sacred selves with all their mystery her creations. “Marigold Glow”, with it’s bold autumn colors, mirrors and passion, beauty and longing. Her works explore our intimate the need at any time in our lives to integrate within ourselves the colorful outer beauty Oneness with all that is, and the results of our human presence in the surrounding us before the inevitable loss of leaves unfolds and winter sets in. The figure, natural world. In May, the quiet beach and the expanse of the air and full of life, connects with the beauty of all the glowing oranges, yellows, and golds. atmosphere above breathes with and within us. The image “Bees”, in July, vibrates with www.sandybotmiller.com color and reminds us of our interdependence with all of creation. Flo Christiano...... MARCH www.MarySouthardArt.org Flo retired from the Ministry of the Arts three years ago and now enjoys exploring her own art interests. Favoring acrylic paints as Nancy Earle...... COVER and NOVEMBER Nancy Earle, SMIC, is a Franciscan and native of Vermont. The images a medium, she comments “I get completely ‘lost’ to myself when in her paintings connect cultures and spiritualities, depict images of painting and find it most enjoyable when done in a workshop setting wholeness revealing deeper meanings of life, suffering, celebration, with other painters.” Her image, “Rocks and Waves”, has energy and death and healing. “Full Moon with Herons”, the image for November, motion to it; Flo suggests we nurture the Waves of Love and Care which have the power to embodies the spirit and energy of these beautiful birds. For the Cover wash over the ‘hard rocks’ that can negatively impact daily living. of the calendar, we used “Unfolding” – a colorful, vibrant image that represents all forms of Susan Cohen Thompson...... JANUARY creation and our inter-connections. [email protected] Susan Cohen Thompson began life in New York where early perceptions of art and nature were developed by visiting museums Betsy Kinnick...... APRIL When I do art, Betsy says, I like to express what is alive in me. Creating in the City. Her art became her way to envision and connect with art is a way to touch the heart of things that matter most. To me, the the natural world. Thompson now lives in the Pacific Northwest; in act of painting itself is an act of discovery to uncover certain qualities addition to appearing on book covers, her art is shown in galleries, in ourselves and the world around us. When I look at Elephants I museum exhibitions and in collections throughout the U.S. Her image, “Nesting Together”, observe their beautiful qualities of love, joy, belonging, peace, strength, shows how –in our interconnected world – we all share the same nest. Cooperation is the intelligence, family, community, and a depth of remembering and caring. To draw them is key to what nature has to teach us. www.thompsonartstudio.com to honor them and all their beauty. Francis Dutil, CSJ...... OCTOBER “Frankie” has enjoyed art since childhood. After working with different media she has come to love water colors the best. Frankie says, “I like to think of watercolor as a lesson for living. Sometimes the water and the paint kind of take off on their own and we feel like we are not in control. However, if we just let it happen and ‘go with the “Nesting Together” by Susan Cohen Thompson

“In our interconnected world, we all share– Stheusan Cohen same Thompson nest.” SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Cooperation is the key to There is room for you in what nature has to teach me, for I am part of you us. and you are part of me. – K. Sherman, CSJ

New Year’s Day 1 2 To build a sustainable When we try to pick out Name 5 things, today, that We cannot live for … and along these A hidden connection is Nature is more than a and healthy nest together anything by itself, we find connect you to the same ourselves alone. Our sympathetic fibers, our stronger than an obvious resource for humans. with an open heart is an it hitched to everything nest – the same world. lives are connected by actions run as causes and one. – Heraclitus expression of love. else in the Universe. a thousand invisible return to us as effects. – S.C.Thompson – J.Muir threads, ... – Melville

3 St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 4 St. John Neumann 5 Epiphany 6 Orthodox Christmas 7 8 9 Forests are the lungs of our Rainforests cover less than What we are doing to the Learn how to see. Realize We cannot get to where we Can you change one The forest is a peculiar land, purifying the air and 2% of Earth’s total surface forests of the world is but that everything connects dream of being tomorrow behavior that will benefit organism of unlimited giving fresh strength to our area, they are home to a minor reflection of what to everything else. unless we change our the ‘nest’ and all within it? kindness and benevolence people. – F.D.Roosevelt 50% of Earth’s plants and we are doing to ourselves – Leonardo da Vinci thinking today. – Einstein that makes no demands animals. and one another. for its sustenance... – Gandhi

Baptism of the Lord 10 11 l New Moon 12 13 14 15 16 ... and extends generously No man is an island. If we all don’t row, the All things are connected ... we are merely a strand Technology can be part of Reflect on your shared the products of its life – John Donne boat won’t go. like the blood that unites in it. Whatever we do the solution to heal and place in nature; how and activity; it affords us. We do not weave the to the web, we do to protect Earth. How can I blessed are we! protection to all beings. web of life... ourselves. – Chief Seattle support this? – Buddhist Sutra

Martin Luther 17 King, Jr. Day 18 19 Inauguration Day 20 World Religion Day 21 22 23 The world will not be One of the first conditions Nest- any protected place There is no place like home Sticks in a bundle are Be conscious of your Honor life in all its destroyed by those who of happiness is that the used to rear young ;a – celebrate and cherish our unbreakable. connection to Nature; forms; your own will be do evil, but by those who link between man and retreat or refuge; a resting connectedness. – Kenyan proverb be conscious of your sustained. watch them without doing nature shall not be broken. place. Home. dis-connection, too. – Ojibway Wisdom anything. – Einstein – Tolstoy St. Francis de Sales Henri Nouwen 1932-199624 Holocaust Victims m Wolf Moon Our breath is one with the Remembrance Day St. Thomas Aquinas Breath of All Creation. 25 26 27 28 29 30 Thomas Merton 1915-1968 31 January 2021 It is the hope of the wise white haired women that whispered gratitudes and forgiveness are enough.

– L.Matonich

“Honor and Redemption” by Angela Chostner SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Her hair is like her ...see nobility in others, May this be the bridge: Where ever you go, go Be patient, God isn’t Read : A Visit From wings, and her eyes see even when it is hidden. I forgive you…of with all your heart. finished with us yet. Wisdom” by K. Gibran potential... – A.Chostner everything. Go, start – Confucius again. – A. Chostner

Presentation of Our Lord St. Blaise Black History Month 1 Groundhog Day 2 Simone Weil 1909-1943 3 Rosa Parks 1913-2005 4 5 6 The wiser mind mourns Age may wrinkle the face, Age is an issue of mind What the elders see while I live in that solitude Read the ‘Book of Joy’ by Take a nap; sometimes we less for what age takes but lack of enthusiasm over matter. If you don’t sitting, the young ones which is painful in youth, Dalai Lama and Desmond need to pause. away than what it leaves wrinkles the soul. mind, it doesn’t matter. standing on their toes but delicious in the years Tutu behind. – Wordsworth – Danish Proverb – Mark Twain won’t see. of maturity. – Einstein – African proverb

Abraham Lincoln l New Moon 1809-1865 7 8 9 St. Scholastica 10 Our Lady of Lourdes 11 Chinese New Year 12 13 Write it on your heart that Wisdom is with the aged, ...the gray hair of If you stumble, make it Spirit of Our Elders, What you see in yourself is Wisdom is a sacred every day is the best day of and understanding in experience is the splendor part of the dance. dance, Oh dance in me! what you see in the world. communion. the year. – Emerson length of days. of the old. – K.Sherman, CSJ – African Proverb. – Victor Hugo – Job12:12 – Proverbs 20:29

Susan B. Anthony World Day of Valentine’s Day 14 1820-1906 15 16 Ash Wednesday 17 18 19 Social Justice? 20 Do not regret growing Connect with an ‘elder’ in Explore the poetry of For most of history, Gray hairs are signs of Let us never know what The Harvest of old age older: It’s a privilege your life. Mary Oliver Anonymous was a wisdom if you hold your old age is. Let us know the is the recollection and denied to many. woman. – Virginia Woolf tongue. – Tagore happiness time brings, not abundance of blessing count the years. previously secured. – Ausonius – Cicero

George Washington I Lent 21 1732-1799 22 23 24 25 Purim 26 m Snow Moon 27 To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age. – T. H. Aldrich

II Lent 28 February 2021 “Rocks and Waves” by Flo Christiano

Listen to the sounds of the waves within you.– R umi SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Individually, we are one When you drink the water, Sometimes you just have Call on God but row away Nurture the Waves of Love How might you be a ‘wave’ drop. Together, we are an remember the spring. to go with the waves. from the rocks. – Indian and Care – they have the in the lives of others? ocean. – Chinese Proverb power to wash over the – Ryunosuke Satoro ‘rocks’ that negatively impact daily life. – F. Christiano St. Katharine Drexel Karl Rahner 1904-1984 Peace Corps 1961 1 Read Across America Day 2 World Wildlife Day 3 4 St John of the Cross 5 Michelangelo 1475-1564 6 ...and dip my hand into ... That far-resounding Water is the driving force Nothing is softer or more To me the sea is a He that will learn to pray, Have I cared enough the wave that meets me, roar is the Ocean’s voice of of all nature. flexible than water, yet continual miracle; the let him go to sea. about the water? and bathe my brow... welcome. His salt breath – Leonardo da Vinci nothing can resist it. fishes that swim, the rocks, – George Herbert brings a blessing along – Lao Tzu the motion of the waves... with it. what stranger miracles are – Nathaniel Hawthorne there? – Walt Whitman

III Lent 7 International Women’s Day 8 9 10 11 12 l New Moon 13 In one drop of water are Life in us is like the water When the wells dry, we May your joys be as deep ...and may you find sweet Pay attention to the waves Drop a word of... kindness, found all the secrets of the in a river. – Thoreau know the worth of water. as the ocean, your troubles peace of mind wherever moving in your heart and bearing hope and joy and oceans. – Gibran – Benjamin Franklin as light as its foam... you may roam. spirit today. comfort on each splashing – Irish saying dashing wave...

IV Lent Equinox Daylight Savings International Day Time begins 14 St. Louise de Marillac 15 16 St. Patrick’s Day 17 18 St. Joseph’s Day 19 of Happiness 20 ...Till you wouldn’t believe It is drops of water that The frog does not drink Envy sees only the sea – You can’t stop the waves, The waves fell; withdrew Imagine waves washing the volume of the one kind make a hole in the rock. up the pond in which he not the rocks in it. but you can learn to surf. and fell again, like the over you – cleansing your word you gave. – Greek saying lives. – Native American – Russian saying – Hawiian saying thud of a great beast spirit – washing away – J.W.Foley wisdom stamping. what is not wanted. – Virginia Woolf

Robert Frost 1874-1963 Oscar Romero Joseph Campbell Lent V 21 World Water Day 22 23 1917-1980 24 Annunciation 25 1904-1987 26 Passover Begins 27 Waves continually work The waves of change are Break, break, break, On ...And I would that my – breaking rock into sometimes welcomed, thy cold gray stones, O tongue could utter the boulders, pebbles and sometimes feared. sea... thoughts that arise in me. sand. – Tennyson

Holy Saturday/Passover m Worm Moon Mother St. John Palm Sunday 28 29 Van Gogh 1853-1890 30 1759-1843 31 March 2021 “Elephants” by Betsy Kinnick If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. – 1 Corinthians 12:26 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY One touch of nature I don’t like that man. I If one part suffers, every makes the whole world must get to know him part suffers with it; if one kin. – Shakespeare better. part is honored, every – Abraham Lincoln part rejoices with it. – 1 Corinthians 12:26

Holy Thursday 1 Good Friday 2 Holy Saturday 3 For I do not seek to There is no creature I believe a leaf of grass is Teachers who are not The good God loves very Nature always wears the We beg you, Lord Jesus, understand in order to among all the Beasts of the no less than the journey- actively involved in much to make something colors of the spirit. bind us with the love of believe, but I believe in world which hath so great work of the stars. the learning process out of nothing. – Emerson you and our neighbor order to understand. For I and ample demonstration – Walt Whitman themselves, force their – Julie Billiart so that we can love believe this: unless I believe, of the power and wisdom student to drink from you deeply with our stagnant water. I will not understand. of almighty God as the whole heart, and not be – Jean-Baptiste de la Salle – St. Anselm of Canterbury Elephant. separated from you. Easter Sunday – Edward Topsell Holocaust – Anthony of Padua Passover ends 4 5 Raphael 1483-1520 6 World Health Day 7 Remembrance Day 8 9 10 Nature’s great masterpiece, In all things of nature Throughout history Elephants have wisdom Prayer is a cure for a It is loving the Cross that Elephants can be deeply an Elephant; the only there is something of the elephants have been and power; they confused mind, a weary one finds one heart, for committed to other harmless great thing. marvelous. – Aristotle revered. They are most remember, support and soul, and a broken heart. Divine Love cannot live creatures they relate – John Donne intelligent creatures, and love each other. without suffering. to – being tough when honored by many cultures. – Bernadette Soubirous protecting and gentle when nurturing. l New Moon 11 Ramadan Begins 12 13 14 15 St. Bernadette 16 St. Kateri Tekakwitha 17 When we tug at a single The best way to predict All things are our relatives; A newborn elephant is Pay attention to this gift of Those who trust in ... They will run and not thing in nature, we find it your future is to create it. what we do to everything, born into a community of nurturing in your life. the Lord will find new grow weary. They will attached to the rest of the – Abraham Lincoln we do to ourselves. All is love; other elephants share strength. They will walk and not faint. world. – John Muir really One. – Black Elk in nurturing and guiding. soar high on wings – Isaiah 40:31 like Eagles...

18 19 20 21 Earth Day 22 23 24 Do not become a disciple Forget not that the earth The Elephant’s wisdom- Walk slowly but never Be who God meant you The clearest way into the of one who praises himself, delights to feel your bare living in community, backwards. to be and you will set the Universe is through a in case you learn pride feet and the winds long to nurturing the young-bless – Abraham Lincoln world on fire. forest wilderness. instead of humility. play with your hair. us with example. – Catherine of Sienna – John Muir – Mark the Evangelist – Gibran

m Pink Moon Arbor Day John James Audubon Oskar Schindler Orthodox St. Mark 25 1785-1851 26 27 1908-1974 28 29 Good Friday 30 April 2021 “Judy’s Beach” by Mary Southard, CSJ As the Earth breathes, so do we. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Smell the sea, feel the sky – breathe in.

St. Joseph the Worker Orthodox Holy Saturday 1 Breathe as one with the Keep a diary of the many Pause. Breathe. Repair the What can I do differently In the sky, there is no Sand lines my soul which Look up at the May sky – Breath-Sharer of the cloud types you see this Universe, then proceed. today to ease the labored distinction of east and is filled with the breath of breathe in the freshness Universe. month. breath of Earth? west. – Buddha the ocean. – A.D.Posey of a Spring day.

National Day of Prayer Lady Juliana of Norwich Orhodox Easter 2 Sts. Philip and James 3 4 Cinco de Mayo 5 National Day of Prayer 6 7 1342-1417 8 Home is where the heart I am the daughter of The WHO estimates that When we feel stuck, look Breathe out fear – breathe Water and air are The sky and the strong can bloom. earth and water, and the millions of people around at the sky. The clouds in trust. essentials that all of life wind have moved the – Charles Swain nursling of the sky. the world die each year remind us that everything depends on – learn to spirit inside me “til I am – Shelley “Clouds” from air pollution. We changes. protect them. carried away trembling can help change that. with joy. – Uvavnuk l St. Isadore the Farmer New Moon Ascension of the Lord International Day Mother’s Day 9 10 Ramadan ends 11 12 Eid al-Fitr 13 14 of Families 15 Breath. Believe. Receive. Every dewdrop and Whenever I feel blue, I Sometimes I go about Inhale the future; exhale The Divine Breath This is what the Sovereign raindrop had a whole start breathing again. pitying myself, and all the the past. contains all of Life; when Lord says: Look! I am heaven within it. – L Frank Baum while I am being carried do you feel separate/in going to put breath into – Longfellow across the sky by beautiful union with this Breath? you and make you live clouds. – Ojibway saying again. – Ezekiel 37:5

Shavout begins 16 17 Shavout ends 18 19 Pentecost 20 21 St. Rita of Cascia 22 To one who has been long ...To breathe a prayer Full I am the breath of change. Take a deep slow breath; And when I breathed, my The sky is the ultimate art Breathe out stress – in city pent, ‘tis very sweet in the smile of the blue allow Gratitude to well up breath was lightening. gallery just above us. breathe in the peace of to look into the fair and firmament. – Keats in you. – Black Elk – Emerson the Holy One. open face of heaven.23 24 Just because you can’t see As you breathe in, cherish m air doesn’t mean you stop yourself. As you breathe Flower Moon Rachel Carson John F. Kennedy’s breathing. Just because you out, cherish all Beings. St. Bede the Venerable 25 St. Philip Neri 26 1907-1964 27 28 birthday 29 can’t see God doesn’t mean – Dalai Lama you stop believing. Memorial Day St. Joan of Arc 30 Feast of the Visitation 31 May 2021 “Urban Gardening” by Pat Willems, CSJ To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. – Gandhi SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY In “ Laudato Si”, Pope To forget how to dig the Shall I not have The spirit cannot endure One cannot think well, Francis invites us to mend earth and to tend the soil intelligence with the earth? the body when overfed, love well, sleep well, if one our unjust relationships is to forget ourselves. Am I not partly leaves and but, if underfed, the body has not dined well. with one another and with – Gandhi vegetable mould myself. cannot endure the spirit. – Virginia Woolf our environment. – Thoreau – St. Francis de Sales

Global Day of Parents 1 2 3 4 5 In communities across The Urban garden – Grocery stores could The lack of fresh local An urban garden Urban farms, community Act on getting excess fresh the country, there are growing and producing provide affordable produce food impacts the diet and reconnects people with gardens, hydroponics, and food into the hands of Food Deserts and Food food in urban spaces. and fresh foods. health of a community. how to grow food, with a aquaponics programs can those in desperate need. Insecurities. What can be relationship to nature. impact our food supply. How? done?

World Day Against D-Day 6 7 World Oceans Day 8 9 l New Moon 10 St. Barnabas 11 Child Labor 12 Life begins the day you Urban gardens can Programs that target and Encourage one another We come from the earth, The glory of gardening: Gardens are not made start a garden. provide valuable habitats engage young people can and build one another we return to the earth, hands in the dirt, head in by singing ‘Oh, how – Chinese Proverb for wild bees and other provide multidimensional up... and in between we garden. the sun, heart with nature. beautiful’, and sitting in pollinators. levels of understanding. – 1 Thes. 5:11 – Alfred Austin To nurture a garden is to the shade. feed not just the body, but – Rudyard Kipling the soul. – Alfred Austin

St. Anthony of Padua 13 Flag Day, U.S. 14 15 16 Father’s Day 17 18 Juneteenth 19 And he gave it for his …and do more essential The best fertilizer is the Learn about agroecology In my life’s garden I’ve If you can’t garden Allowing people to opinion, that whoever could service to his country, gardener’s shadow. as a sustainable way to come to know, that in my yourself, provide support have more immediate make two ears of corn, or than the whole race of move forward in growing life’s garden I welcome for gardening in your connections to their two blades of grass, to grow politicians put together. and supplying food. whatever may grow. community. food can stimulate local upon a spot of ground where – Jonathan Swift – Kathy Sherman, CSJ economy and help in other only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind... economic and social ways. Father’s Day m Strawberry Moon World Refugee Day St. Thomas More Birth of St. John Solstice 20 21 22 23 the Baptist 24 25 26 Community gardens and In a gentle way, you can The greatest delight the ...I am not alone and green roofs help filter out shake the world. fields and woods minister unacknowledged. They local air pollution and – Gandhi is the suggestion of an nod to me and I to them. cool down cities in the occult relation between – Emerson summertime. man and the vegetable...

27 28 Sts. Peter and Paul 29 30 June 2021 “Bees” by Mary Southard, CSJ For bees, the flower is the fountain of life;

For flowers, the bee is the messenger of love.– Gibran SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY If you want to gather How blest to sit in the …To watch the bees at honey, don’t kick over the fragrant shade, In the their happy task, And beehive. hush of a summer listen their drowsy tune… – Abraham Lincoln noon, … – Elizabeth Allen

St. Maria Goretti Marcel Proust U.S. Independence Day 4 5 Dalai Lama b 1935 6 Marc Chagall 1887-1985 7 8 l New Moon 9 1871-1922 10 Think of your garden When the bee comes to Stop using harmful Gracious words are a The bee collects honey from A world without insects- Create a bee garden. as a feeding station and your house, let her have chemicals in your garden honeycomb, sweet to the flowers in such a way as crops can’t reproduce; safe haven for bees, other beer; you many want and window boxes. soul and healing to the to do the least damage or humans and animals lose insects and birds. to visit the bee’s house bones. – Proverbs 16:24 destruction to them, and key food sources. someday. – Congo proverb he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just (new moon) as he found them. H. D. Thoreau – St. Francis de Sales Our Lady of St. Benedict 11 1817-1862 12 13 St. Kateri Tekakwitha 14 St. Bonaventure 15 Mount Carmel 16 17 Creation vibrates in the Protect these creatures Can you change Our world without insects Reflect, pray and prepare No bees, no honey: no The hum of bees is the summer symphony of that bless our world with something in your own may no longer be our for a more just and work, no money. garden speaking to us. insect sounds – 24 hour food and beauty and gardening/lawn care world. sustainable tomorrow–for performances! health. routines that makes all of creation. ‘your space’ a safe and welcoming ‘shared space’?

Amelia Earhart Nelson Mandela Day 18 Degas 1834-1917 19 20 21 St. Mary Magdalene 22 m Buck Moon 23 1897-1937 24 For bees, the flower is Handle a book as a bee How many bites of food Words are like bees – some The bee is more honored …but because she labors The busy bee has no time the fountain of life; For does a flower, extract do we eat that depends create honey and others than other animals, not for others. for sorrow. flowers, the bee is the its sweetness, but do not entirely on bees? leave a sting. because she labors, … – St. John Chrysostom – William Blake messenger of love. damage it. – John Muir – Gibran

Gerard Manley World Day of St. James the Greater 25 Sts. Anne & Joachim 26 27 Hopkins 1844-1889 28 St. Martha 29 Friendship 30 St. Ignatius of Loyola 31 July 2021 “Marigold Glow” by Sandy Bot-Miller And then the flowers came covering the land; beauty everywhere! – Kathy Sherman, CSJ SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Open afresh your rounds Little flower, but if I could Marigold: some say the Other religions consider The Earth laughs in Flowers have an It is commonly thought of starry folds, Ye ardent understand what you are, name came from “Mary’s marigolds as protection flowers. – Emerson immediate impact on that flowers have a long marigolds. – John Keats root and all in all, I should Gold” which refers to the from evil spirits; for some happiness. term positive effect on know what God and man Virgin Mary. they are symbolic of good moods. is. – Tennyson fortune.

Flannery O’Connor 1 2 1925-1964 3 St. John Vianney 4 5 Transfiguration 6 7 Flowers rejoice when night …Sweetest looks and The Earth will not continue All the flowers of all the Flowers purify the air. Flowers provide healing Flowers invite pollinators; is done, Lift their heads to odours raise, In a silent to offer its harvest, except tomorrows are in the seeds for both mental and without pollinators what greet the sun; … hymn of praise. with faithful stewardship. of today. – Indian proverb physical ailments. would our world look like? – Henry Van Dyke We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future l generations. New Moon St. Clare St. Dominic World Indigenous – John Paul II International St. Mary McKillop 8 People’s Day 9 St. Lawrence 10 11 Youth Day 12 13 St. Maximilian Kolbe 14 The marigold is known Plant seeds, grow Flowers help us make The marigold is also The Amen of nature is I do not think I have The marigolds seemed to to repel insects, including blessings! intimate connections; called the ‘herb of the always a flower. ever seen anything more glow in the late summer mosquitoes. express emotions. sun’, perhaps representing – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. beautiful than the bluebell sun; to rejoice! passion and creativity? I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it. – Gerald Manley World Humanitarian Hopkins Assumption of Mary 15 16 17 . 18 Day 19 20 Senior Citizens Day 21 Their ruffled heads In the colors of the sun, Invite a child into your Walk barefoot outside; Honeybees love yellow Flowers are a gift of Smile like the marigold- nodding and bobbing in they greet us with their flower garden; introduce soak in some sun. flowers, including nature. radiant in the August sun. the hot summer breeze. cheerful resilience. them to your favorites. marigolds.

m Sturgeon Moon Queenship of Mary 22 St Rose of Lima 23 St. Bartholomew 24 25 Women’s Equality Day 26 St. Monica 27 St. Augustine of Hippo 28 Gardens are a form of The actual flower is the Savor the warmth and life autobiography. plant’s highest fulfillment, of the August blossoms; – Sydney Eddison …they are here first of all store it away for a day for delight. – John Ruskin when you need it.

Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist 29 30 31 August 2021 “Justice: Still She Sings” by Angela Chostner Most everything with justice happens below the surface – our thoughts, beliefs, internal influences; the starfish and the seahorse are about balance. –Angela Chostner SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY I love you when you bow Climb the mountains and Justice and power must be Don’t be anxious about in your mosque, kneel in get their good tidings. brought together, so that what you have , but about your temple, pray in your Nature’s peace will flow whatever is just may be what you are. church. For you and I are into you as sunshine flows powerful, and whatever is – Gregory the Great people of one religion, and into the trees. – J. Muir powerful may be just. it is the spirit. – Gibran – Blaise Pascal

1 2 St. Gregory the Great 3 4 When you do things from Perhaps there is a soul The purity of a person’s There is a higher court This being human is All of the animals except A private soldier has as your soul, you feel a river hidden in everything and it heart can be quickly than the courts of justice a guest house. Every for people know that the much right to justice as a moving in you, a joy. can always speak, without measured by how they and that is the court of morning a new arrival. principle business of life is major general. – Rumi even making a sound, to regard animals. conscience. It supercedes – Rumi to enjoy it. – Abraham Lincoln another soul. all other courts. – Gandhi – Samuel Butler – Frances Hodgson Burnett Mother Teresa l New Moon International Day Jane Addams 1860-1945 Grandma Moses 1860-1961 of Charity 5 Labor Day 6 Rosh Hashana 7 Mary’s Birthday 8 9 10 Patriot Day 11 To find the pearls in life’s Whoever finds God finds Pursue some path, Our prayer is public and Pray to God: You are the Say not, “I have found the …For the soul walks upon ocean, you have to venture everything; whoever loses however narrow and common; and when we Spirit, and I am only the truth, “ but rather, “I have all paths. The soul walks out far past the shore. God loses everything. crooked, in which you pray, we pray not for one, trumpet, and without found a truth”. Say not, “I not upon a line, neither – Robert Bellarmine can walk with love and but for the whole people, Your breath, I can give no have found the path of the does it grow like a reed. reverence. – Thoreau because we the whole sound. soul” Say rather, “I have The soul unfolds itself, like people are one... met the soul walking upon – Joseph of Cupertino my path.”… a lotus of countless petals. – Cyprian – Gibran Our Lady of Sorrows Hildegard of Bingen Grandparent’s day 12 St. John Chrysostom 13 14 Yom Kippur 15 Yom Kippur 16 1098-1179 17 18 If you want God to hear The least movement is of I alone cannot change Charity is no substitute for Whenever a separation It is not what a lawyer For God commands the your prayers, hear the importance to all nature. the world but I can cast a justice withheld. is made between liberty tells me I may do; but angels over you to guard voice of the poor. If you The entire ocean is stone across the waters to – St. Augustine and justice, neither, in my what humanity, reason, you in all your ways. wish God to anticipate affected by a pebble. create many ripples. opinion, is safe. and justice tell me I ought – Psalm 91:11 your wants, provide those – Blaise Pascal – Mother Teresa – Edmund Burke to do. of the needy without – Edmund Burke waiting for them to m Harvest Moon ask you… St. Andrew Kim and International Day – Thomas of Villanova19 the Korean Martyrs 20 of Peace 21 Equinox 22 23 Native American Day 24 25 Nature is doing her best Life in us is like the water Pure water is the world’s Let us continue to offer To do something, however each moment to make us in a river. – Thoreau first and foremost one another to God and small, to make others well. Why, nature is but medicine. to love each other in our happier and better, is the another name for health. – Slovakian proverb Lord, as God has loved us. highest ambition, the most – Thoreau – Vincent de Paul elevating hope, which can inspire a human being. – John Lubbock World Day Against St. Michael, St. Gabriel, Human Trafficking 26 St. Vincent de Paul 27 28 St. Raphael 29 30 September 2021 “Trees” by Frances Dutil, CSJ Tree roots form a beautiful community. Quietly and gently, they care for, communicate with and nourish each other.

We could learn from them.– Frances Dutil, CSJ SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY To dwellers in a wood, Trees are poems that earth almost every species of writes upon the skies. tree has a voice. – Gibron – Thomas Hardy

Guardian Angels St. Therese of Lisieux 1 Mohandas Gandhi 2 Listen to the wind in the ...Bright leaves sink The creation of a thousand The forest is a social Hold on to what you With roots connecting tree Through our whispers leaves. noiseless in the hush forests is in one acorn. network. Read “The believe, even if it is a tree to tree, We nourish Earth on the wind we help you of woods, for winter – Emerson Hidden Life of Trees” that stands by itself. and also thee. breathe, cool your air, ... waiting... by P. Wohlleben. – Pueblo Prayer – L. Matonich – Helen Hunt Jackson

Our Lady of the Rosary 3 St. Francis of Assisi 4 World Teachers’ Day 5 l New Moon 6 Desmond Tutu b. 1931 7 8 9 ...bring you beauty, and I see a time of Seven …and the whole Earth The clearest way into the Volunteer at an Hear the crunching, A tree with strong roots cycle hope with our Generations when all the will become one circle Universe is through a arboretum. rustling, feel the Autumn laughs at storms. seasons. colors of mankind will again. – Crazy Horse forest wilderness. energy, as you walk – Malay proverb gather under the Sacred – J. Muir through the leaves in the Tree of Life... October woods.

World Mental CSJ Founders’ Day Health Day 10 St. John XXIII 11 12 13 14 St. Teresa of Avila 15 World Food Day 16 Branch out a little and He who leans against a The leaves may dry and Don’t make Trees rare, Give fools their gold, and Love is flower like; We are the Trees, our dark browse thru “Advice From big tree will always find blow away, but if the roots keep them with care. knaves their power; let Friendship is like a and leafy glade Bands the a Tree” by Ilam Shamire. shade... are strong the tree can fortune’s bubbles rise and sheltering tree. bright Earth with softer – Albanian Proverb grow them again. fall;…who plants a tree is – Coleridge mysteries. more than all. – Mary Colborne-Veel – Whittier

International Day St. Isaac Jogues and for Poverty Eradication 17 St. Luke 18 St. John de Brebeuf 19 m Hunter’s Moon 20 21 22 23 Let’s take our hearts for Watch the film “The Talk to your trees; they Find out about a colony Every leaf speaks bliss to Trees are the longest living Be like a tree and let the a walk in the woods and Call of the Forest: The will listen. of quaking aspen called me, Fluttering from the organisms on earth. dead leaves drop. listen to the magic whispers Forgotten Wisdom of Pando, or “The Trembling autumn tree. – E.Bronte – Rumi of old trees. Trees” with visionary Giant,” in Utah; you will United Nations Day scientist Diana Beresford- be amazed! 24 Kroeger. Stones have been known Karen Klimczak, SSJ to move and trees to 1943-2006 Sts. Simon and Jude speak! – Shakespeare 25 26 27 28 29 30 Halloween 31 October 2021 Tell me and I will forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me and I’ll understand. – Native American

“Herons with Full Moon” by Nancy Earle SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Act as if what you do Faith is the bird that feels Tell me, and I’ll forget. In order to see birds it is Be still and the earth will The bird is generally makes a difference. It the light when the dawn is Show me, and I may not necessary to become a part speak to you. thought to symbolize does. – William James still dark. – Tagore remember. Involve me of the silence. – Native American freedom, they can walk and I’ll understand. – Robert Lynd proverb on the earth and swim in – Native American saying the sea as humans do but they also have the ability to soar into the sky. All Souls’ Day All Saints’ Day 1 Election Day (US) 2 St. Martin de Porres 3 l New Moon 4 5 6 No bird soars too high if he The reason birds can fly Many cultures believe that Success is full of promise Many people agree November: brown and How many birds have you soars with his own wings. and we can’t is simply birds symbolize eternal till one gets it, and then, that birds were the curling leaves rustling and seen today? How many – William Blake because they have perfect life; the link between it seems like a nest from primary inspiration crunching underfoot. have flown to warmer faith, for to have faith is to heaven and earth. which the bird has flown. for human flight. climates? have wings. – J.M.Barrie – Henry Ward Beecher (new moon) Marie Curie 1867-1934 Veterans Day, U.S. St. Frances Daylight Savings Time ends 7 Dorothy Day 1897-1980 8 Thomas Berry 1914-2009 9 St. Leo the Great 10 St. Martin of Tours 11 12 Xavier Cabrini 13 …No shade, no shine, no ... No fruits, no flowers, If the trees look stark Stalking along from log …but occupied themselves And he beholds the A beautiful blue heron, butterflies, no bees, ... no leaves, no birds, against the sky, and a to log, two large herons with their own fishing moon; like a rounded flying over the November November! cold rain is falling, make paid no attention to my arrangements, as if their fragment of ice filled tree tops – a sight to – Thomas Hood yourself cozy inside. presence, … wilderness were their own. with motionless light. treasure. – William Cowper Prime – Gustave Flaubert

Claude Monet Georgia O’Keefe St. Elizabeth Universal 1840-1926 14 1887-1986 15 St. Margaret of Scotland16 of Hungary 17 18 m Beaver Moon 19 Children’s Day 20 Gratitude is the memory No act of kindness, no Name 5 things that fill Gratitude is the fairest Gratitude turns what we Not what we have, but The soul that gives of the heart. matter how small, is ever you with gratitude. blossom which springs have into enough. what we enjoy, constitutes thanks can find comfort – Jean Baptiste Massieu wasted. – Cicero from the soul. – Aesop our abundance. in everything; the soul – Epicurus that complains can find comfort in nothing. – Hannah Whitall Smith

Presentation of Mary Sojourner Truth Christ the King 21 St. Cecilia 22 23 24 Thanksgiving Day 25 1797-1893 26 27 Looking behind, I am ... looking upwards I Put out seed and suet for filled with gratitude, am filled with strength, the hardy birds that looking forward, I am looking within, I discover winter over with you. filled with vision, ... peace. – Quero Apache prayer

I Advent Hanukkuh Begins 28 29 St. Andrew 30 November 2021 Close the door of hate and open the door of love all

over the world. – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Mother and Children” by Pat Willems, CSJ SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY I had always hoped that Since the beginning of an Close the door of hate and Food shortages and this land might become inhabited Earth, animals open the door of love all changes in the climate and a safe and agreeable and humankind have over the world. environment have pushed asylum to the virtuous migrated to new homes. – Robert Louis Stevenson. animals and humankind and persecuted part of to seek new lands. mankind, to whatever nation they might belong. – George Washington El Salvador Martyrs l World Aids Day 1 of 1980 2 St. Francis Xavier 3 New Moon 4 Give me your tired, your ... send those, the Freedom from war, from There is a special magic Extend a helping hand Pray that all of God’s Ye shall find the babe poor, your huddled masses homeless, tempest-tossed, overbearing taxes and and holiness about to those on a journey; children may know the wrapped in swaddling yearning to breathe free, to me: I lift my lamp politics, and religious women. They are the feed the hungry, show a blessings of Peace on Earth clothes, lying in a manger. the wretched refuse of beside the Golden Door. freedom have pulled bringers of life to the kindness to the weary. this holy season. – Luke 2:8-12 your teeming shore, ... – Emma Lazarus migrants to seek new people and the teachers of homes. children. – Cheyenne II Advent International St. Nicholas Day Pearl Harbor Volunteer Day 5 Hanukkah ends 6 Remembrance Day 7 Immaculate Conception 8 St. Juan Diego 9 Human Rights Day 10 11 God gave us memory so Whenever Christ- O Radiant Dawn, Look for ways to give The pine tree seems to In the winter stillness- the Embrace the Advent that we may have roses in Love- is born anew, Joy Splendor of Eternal Light, to those in need in your listen, the fir tree to whisper of peace. Journey as you move December. – J.M.Barrie resounds in all Creation. Sun of Justice: Come, community. wait; and both without toward the light. shine on those who dwell impatience. in darkness... – Friedrich Nietzche – O Antiphon III Advent Our Lady of m Guadalupe 12 St. Lucy 13 St. John of the Cross 14 15 16 17 Cold Moon 18 May the Joy of Christmas Jesus is Light for those in ...Hope for those who ...Now it’s our turn The Dream of God shall Silent night, Holy night ... May you have the shine through you and, darkness... search, Peace for those to bring these gifts to be carried in strong hearts Gladness of Christmas like the Star, guide you to who hurt... others…do we? and gentle hands. which is hope; The Spirit a place of Peace and Love. – Frankie Dutil, CSJ of Christmas which is peace; the heart of Christmas which is love. – Ada V. Hendricks IV Advent 19 20 Solstice 21 22 23 Christmas Eve 24 Christmas 25 And wild and sweet the A good conscience is a May you be the Presence The best way to cheer By being yourself, you put For auld lang syne, for words repeat of Peace on continual Christmas. of Love in our world yourself up is to try to something beautiful into auld lang syne. Earth, Good Will to Men. – Benjamin Franklin throughout the coming cheer somebody else up. the world that was not – Longfellow New Year. – Mark Twain there before. – Edwin Elliott

Kwanzaa Begins Holy Family 26 St. John the Apostle 27 Holy Innocents 28 29 30 New Year’s Eve 31 December 2021 It is the hope of the wise white haired women that whispered gratitudes and forgiveness “Rocks and Waves” by Flo Christiano

“Nesting Together” by Susan Cohen Thompson are enough. – L.Matonich Listen to the sounds of the waves within you.– Rumi

“Honor and Redemption” by Angela Chostner “In our interconnected world, we all share the– Susan same Cohen Thompson nest.”

“Bees” by Mary Southard, CSJ January February March For bees, the flower is the fountain of life; For flowers, the bee

is the messenger of love.SUNDAY – Gibran

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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY If you want to gather How blest to sit in the …To watch the bees at honey, don’t kick over the fragrant shade, In the their happy task, And TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY beehive. hush of a summer listen their drowsy tune… – Abraham Lincoln noon, … – Elizabeth Allen

Canada Day 1 2 St. Thomas the Apostle 3 A bumblebee can visit, Keeping of bees is like the Honeybees are clearly Beeswax can be used as Listen to the whisper of Insects are the most Celebrate the diversity and help pollinate, 3,000 direction of sunbeams. among the most important a base for ointments, the Spirit in the hum of diverse creatures on earth; with joy and gladness and flowers a day. – Thoreau of pollinators, and their polishes, cosmetics and the bee, in the thrum of at least a million species awe! – Nat Geo 5-2020 efforts result in a large candle making. the insects around you. named and millions more percent of all pollination to discover. If you want to gather in the United States. – Nat Geo 5-2020 A bumblebee can visit, honey, don’t kick over the and help pollinate, 3,000 “Urban Gardening” by Pat Willems, CSJ beehive. “Judy’s Beach” by Mary Southard, CSJ St. Maria Goretti Marcel Proust U.S. Independence Day Dalai Lama b 1935 Marc Chagall 1887-1985 l New Moon 1871-1922 4 5 flowers6 a day. 7 8 9 10 – Abraham Lincoln“Elephants” by Betsy Kinnick How blest to sit in the Think of your garden When the bee comes to Stop using harmful Gracious words are a The bee collects honey A world without insects- Create a bee garden. To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil as a feeding station and your house, let her have chemicals in your– gardenNat honeycomb,Geo 5-2020 sweet to the from flowers in such a way cropsKeeping can’t reproduce; of bees is like the fragrant shade, In the safe haven for bees, other beer; you many want and window boxes. soul and healing to the as to do the least damage humans and animals lose As the Earth breathes, so do we. insects and birds. to visit the bee’s house bones. – Proverbs 16:24 or destruction to them, key food sources. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is direction of sunbeams. is to forget ourselves. – Gandhi someday. and he leaves them whole, hush of a summer – Congo proverb undamaged and fresh, just – Thoreau as he found them. honored, every part rejoices with– 1it. Corinthians 12:26 noon, … …To watch the bees at – St. Francis de Sales Honeybees are clearly their happy task, And (new moon) H. D. Thoreau Our Lady of among the most important St. Benedict 11 1817-1862 12 13 St. Kateri Tekakwitha 14 St. Bonaventure 15 Mount Carmel 16 17 listen their drowsy tune… Creation vibrates in the Protect these creatures Can you change something Our world without insects Reflect, pray and prepare No bees, no honey: no The hum of bees is the of pollinators, and their pril ay une summer symphony of that bless our world with in your own gardening/ may no longer be our for a more just and work, no money. garden speaking to us. A – Elizabeth Allen M J insect sounds – 24 hour food and beauty and lawn care routines that world. sustainable tomorrow–for Beeswax can be used as performances! health. makes ‘your space’ a safe all of creation. efforts result in a large and welcoming ‘shared space’? percent of all pollination a base for ointments, Canada Day U.S. Independence Day in the United States. polishes, cosmetics and

Amelia Earhart candle making. Listen to the whisper of Nelson Mandela Day 18 Degas 1834-1917 19Think of 20your garden21 St. Mary Magdalene 22 m Buck Moon 23 1897-1937 24 the Spirit in the hum of For bees, the flower is Handle a book as a bee How many bites of food Words are like bees – some The bee is more honored …but because she labors The busy bee has no time 1 the fountain of life; For does a flower, extract as doa we feeding eat that depends stationcreate honey andand others 4than other animals, not for others. for sorrow. flowers, the bee is the its sweetness, but do not entirely on bees? leave a sting. because she labors, … – St. John Chrysostom – William Blake the bee, in the thrum of messenger of love. damage it. – John Muir – Gibran safe haven for bees, other the insects around you. Insects are the most When the bee comes to insects and birds. St. Maria Goretti diverse creatures on earth;2 St. Thomas the Apostle your house, let her have 5 Dalai Lama b 1935 at least a million species Gerard Manley World Day of St. James the Greater 25 Sts. Anne & Joachim 26 27 Hopkins 1844-1889 28 St. Marthabeer; you29 manyFriendship want30 St. Ignatius of Loyola 31 named and millions more Celebrate the diversity to visit the bee’s house Stop using harmful to discover. with joy and gladness and3 July 2021someday. chemicals in your garden6 Marc Chagall 1887-1985 – Nat Geo 5-2020 awe! – Congo proverb and window boxes. Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the 7 St. Benedict soul and healing to the (new moon) bones. – Proverbs 16:24 The bee collects honey Creation vibrates in the “Justice: Still She Sings” by Angela Chostner H. D. Thoreau from flowers in such a way8 l “Bees” by Mary Southard, CSJ New Moon summer symphony of11 1817-1862 as to do the least damage insect sounds – 24 hour or destruction to them, A world without insects- “Marigold Glow” by Sandy Bot-Miller Most everything with justice happens below the surface – Protect these creatures For bees, the flower is the fountain of life; For flowers, the bee Marcel Proust performances! 12 and he leaves them whole, crops can’t reproduce; 9 1871-1922 our thoughts, beliefs, internal influences; the starfish and the that bless our world with undamagedis and the messengerfresh, just of love.humans –and Gibran animals lose And then the flowers came covering the land; food and beauty and seahorse are about balance. –Angela Chostner as he found them. key food sources. Create a bee garden. beauty everywhere! – Kathy Sherman, CSJ Can you change something 10 health. 13 – St. Francis de Sales in your own gardening/ St. Kateri Tekakwitha lawn care routines that July August September makes ‘your space’ a safe Our world without insects14 Vision Statement for the Artsand in welcoming the ‘shared World may no longer be our St. Bonaventure Nelson Mandela Day space’? world. Reflect, pray and prepare For bees, the flower is 15 Our Lady of 18 for a more just and Mount Carmel The Congtheregation fountain of life; For of St.Degas Joseph1834-1917 affirms the power of the sustainable tomorrow–for flowers, the bee is the all of creation. No bees, no honey: no messenger of love. Handle a book as a bee work, no money. 16 arts to heal,– Gibran bring beauty,does a flower, transform extract19 consciousness, and its sweetness, but do not The hum of bees is the serve as an agent fordamage justice it. – John Muir andHow systemic many bites of food change. We garden speaking to us.17 do we eat that depends20 believe the arts express the universalentirely on human bees? experience Words are like bees –21 some create honey and others St. Mary Magdalene and rSt.ecognize James the Greater that the arts comfort us, amplifyleave a sting. our The bee is more honored than other animals, not22 m 25 Buck Moon voices, and call usSts. Anneto &contemplation Joachim and action. because she labors,“Trees” by Frances Dutil, CSJ… …but because she labors Amelia Earhart Tree roots form a beautiful community. Quietly23 and gently, “Herons with Full Moon” by Nancy Earle “Mother and Children” by Pat Willems, CSJ 26 for others. 1897-1937 they care for, communicate– St. John with, Chrysostom and nourish each other. Tell me and I will forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Close the door of hate and open the We could learn from them. The busy bee has no time Therefore, on behalf of the Congregation’s mission – Frances Dutil, CSJ 24 door of love all over the world. 27 Gerard Manley for sorrow. Involve me and I’ll understand. – Native American – Robert Louis Stevenson of unity, which recognizes the sacrednessHopkins 1844-1889 of all – William Blake 28 October November December creation, we offer our gifts of music, art,July and 2021 word toSt. Martha World Day of the world. It is our hope they will serve as a catalyst 29 Friendship Congregation of St. Joseph – La Grange Park Center for the rising up of greater love, unity, justice, and 30 St. Ignatius of Loyola community wherever they find a home. 151531 W. Ogden Avenue – La Grange Park, IL, 60526-1721