Care of Earth
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Seeding A Land Legacy
April 18, 2024
“Our 34-acre Marywood Campus has the potential to transform some of its spacious lawns into beautiful woods or a tiny forest. Trees are critical to the overall quality of our environment. They offset development impacts, significantly diminish noise pollution, lower air temperature, remove pollutants from the air, and decrease topsoil erosion. Trees are a critical […]
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Stroll through the St. Francis Sculpture Garden this Earth Month
April 12, 2024
As we celebrate the beauty and wonder of our planet in April, take a moment to reconnect with the very essence of Earth itself. Stroll through the St. Francis Sculpture Garden. This path meanders through 11 acres of woodland and Coldbrook Creek also flows through this corner of the Dominican Sisters~Grand Rapids Marywood Campus. Bronze […]
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2023 Season of Creation Prayer: Let Justice and Peace Flow
September 8, 2023
Sustaining Creator God, Help us steward the resources for the use of all people. Bless us as we go forth from this place – to North, East, South, and West….. Preaching with our lives. Across the lands and waters of the world, Let Justice and Peace Flow Rippling through the Great Lakes region, Let Justice […]
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Creation Canticle ~ Bear Heart’s Prayer of Praise, Lamentation, and Hope
April 24, 2023
Bear Heart’s Prayer of Praise, Lamentation, and Hope Majestic Forest, Peace, Tranquility and Beauty Diversity and Oneness; We all belong We call this Mountain our Land, our Home We praise and thank you, Creator God. Timber, Timber, Timber, they shout Profit, Profit, Profit, all is free Greed, Greed, Greed, take all, no one is responsible […]
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Join the Challenge: Refuse to Use or Buy Single-Use Plastic Bottles March 8-14
March 3, 2023
The Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids, Michigan are one of many congregations of Catholic Sisters taking up the “Refuse to Use” challenge to abstain from using single-use plastic beverage bottles during Catholic Sisters Week March 8-14, 2023. Learning about the damage caused by plastic pollution. The production of polluting waste is only one part of […]
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Introducing “Our Common Home One Human Family” Laudato Si Video Series
January 24, 2022
“Our Common Home & One Human Family” video series offers thoughtful exploration of some of the basic themes, principles, and values expressed in the book Laudato Si’© (On the Care of Our Common Home). “There is a nobility in the duty to care for creation through little daily actions, and it is wonderful how education […]
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Reflections on Laudato Si’, the Encyclical by Pope Francis
September 28, 2021
Laudato Si’ – Encyclical on Ecology and Care for God’s Creation September 2015 “LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord.” These are the words Pope Francis used to open his encyclical on ecology and care for God’s creation. These words are originally from the first line of Saint Francis of Assisi’s […]
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Creation Care as an Act of Radical Hospitality, Season of Creation 2021
September 1, 2021
Today, September 1, begins the Season of Creation, a month-long ecumenical call to practice creation care as an act of radical hospitality, safeguarding a place for all creatures, human and more human, in our common home. Today is the World Day of Prayer for Creation, a “feast day” established by Pope Francis in 2015 to […]
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Earth Day 2021
April 23, 2021
“What kind of world do we want to leave to those who come after us, to children who are now growing up? This question not only concerns the environment in isolation; the issue cannot be approached piecemeal. When we ask ourselves what kind of world we want to leave behind, we think in the first […]
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Sister Inspiration: Ann Mason, OP
August 30, 2019
Growing up on a farm, Sister Ann Mason learned to love and care for the Earth, especially by reducing and reusing materials. “We didn’t call it recycling; you just reused everything.” It’s no surprise that this consciousness for stewarding Earth’s resources remains engrained in many aspects of Sister Ann’s daily life. She actively cared for […]