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Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.
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We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond…
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Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an…
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We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't…
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The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute…
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Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity.…
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Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is…
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The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human…
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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the…
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We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the…
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The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world of beauty.…
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If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished…
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact…
— Wendell Berry
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This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies…
— Pope John Paul II
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Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques…
— Richard J. Foster
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That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations…
— Pope Gregory XVI
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For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it…
— Pope Leo XIII
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They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,'…
— Pope Leo XIII
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Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the…
— Pope Pius XII
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We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
— Dorothy Day
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Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a…
— Thomas Merton
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Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The…
— Thomas Merton
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