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“Unfolding” by Nancy Earle
2021
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
We invite you to enter into
home is a communion
each month with a sense of
of life, each aspect
hope and anticipation for the
inter-dependent with
revelation each creature longs Hope leads us to anticipate “the more”
all others.
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. crowmother@earthlink.net
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 the same nest.”
– Susan Cohen Thompson
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
17 Martin Luther
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
St. Francis de Sales 24 – Tolstoy
25 26 27 m 28 29 30
Henri Nouwen 1932-1996
Holocaust Victims Wolf Moon
Our breath is one with the Remembrance Day St. Thomas Aquinas
Breath of All Creation.
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
Black History Month 1 Presentation of Our Lord
Groundhog Day 2 St. Blaise
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
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Abraham Lincoln
l New Moon 1809-1865
St. Scholastica Our Lady of Lourdes Chinese New Year
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
Valentine’s Day 14 Susan B. Anthony
1820-1906 15 16 Ash Wednesday 17 18 19 World Day of
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
I Lent 21 George Washington
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.
– Rumi
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
Peace Corps 1961 1 Read Across America Day 2 St. Katharine Drexel
World Wildlife Day 3 4 Karl Rahner 1904-1984
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...
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
IV Lent Equinox
Daylight Savings International Day
Time begins St. Louise de Marillac St. Patrick’s Day St. Joseph’s Day of Happiness
...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
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Robert Frost 1874-1963
Oscar Romero Joseph Campbell
Lent V World Water Day 1917-1980 Annunciation 1904-1987 Passover Begins
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
28 29 30 31
Holy Saturday/Passover
m Worm Moon Mother St. John
Palm Sunday Van Gogh 1853-1890 1759-1843
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 12:26SUNDAY 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
I will not understand. stagnant water.
of almighty God as the whole heart, and not be
– Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
6 8 9 10
– St. Anselm of Canterbury
4 5 7
Elephant. separated from you.
Easter Sunday – Edward Topsell Holocaust – Anthony of Padua
Passover ends Raphael 1483-1520 World Health Day Remembrance Day
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
25 26 27 28 29 30
m Pink Moon Arbor Day
John James Audubon Oskar Schindler Orthodox
St. Mark 1785-1851 1908-1974 Good Friday
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.
Orhodox Easter 2 National Day of Prayer
Sts. Philip and James 3 4 Cinco de Mayo 5 National Day of Prayer 6 7 Lady Juliana of Norwich
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
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
St. Isadore the Farmer
l New Moon Ascension of the Lord International Day
Mother’s Day Ramadan ends Eid al-Fitr of Families
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
25 m 26 27 28 29
Just because you can’t see As you breathe in, cherish
Flower Moon
air doesn’t mean you stop yourself. As you breathe Rachel Carson John F. Kennedy’s
St. Bede the Venerable St. Philip Neri 1907-1964 birthday
breathing. Just because you out, cherish all Beings.
May 2021
can’t see God doesn’t mean – Dalai Lama
you stop believing.
St. Joan of Arc 30 Memorial Day
Feast of the Visitation 31“Urban Gardening” by Pat Willems, CSJ
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil
is to forget ourselves. – GandhiSUNDAY 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?
D-Day 6 7 World Oceans Day 8 9l New Moon 10 St. Barnabas 11 World Day Against
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 economic and social ways.
deserve better of mankind...
Father’s Day
World Refugee Day
Solstice
20 21 St. Thomas More 22 23 m Strawberry Moon
Birth of St. John
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.
– GibranSUNDAY 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
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.
in the United States. – Nat Geo 5-2020
U.S. Independence Day 4 5 St. Maria Goretti
Dalai Lama b 1935 6 Marc Chagall 1887-1985 7 8l New Moon 9 Marcel Proust
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
as he found them.
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
(new moon)
H. D. Thoreau – St. Francis de Sales Our Lady of
St. Benedict 1817-1862 St. Kateri Tekakwitha St. Bonaventure Mount Carmel
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’?
Nelson Mandela Day 18 Degas 1834-1917 19 20 21 St. Mary Magdalene 22 m Buck Moon 23 Amelia Earhart
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
St. James the Greater 25 Sts. Anne & Joachim 26 27 Gerard Manley
Hopkins 1844-1889 28 St. Martha 29 World Day of
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, CSJSUNDAY 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.
1 2 Flannery O’Connor
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.
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
New Moon St. Clare
St. Dominic World Indigenous – John Paul II International
St. Mary McKillop People’s Day St. Lawrence Youth Day St. Maximilian Kolbe
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.
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
– Gerald Manley
World Humanitarian Hopkins
Assumption of Mary . Day Senior Citizens Day
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 ChostnerSUNDAY 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
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Mother Teresa l New Moon
Grandma Moses 1860-1961
International Day Jane Addams 1860-1945
of Charity Labor Day Rosh Hashana Mary’s Birthday Patriot Day
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... – Joseph of Cupertino met the soul walking upon a lotus of countless petals.
my path.”…
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
– Cyprian – Gibran
Our Lady of Sorrows Hildegard of Bingen
Grandparent’s day St. John Chrysostom Yom Kippur Yom Kippur 1098-1179
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
19 m
waiting for them to
20 21 22 23 24 25
Harvest Moon
ask you… St. Andrew Kim and International Day
– Thomas of Villanova the Korean Martyrs of Peace Equinox Native American Day
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.
26 27 28 29 30
– John Lubbock
World Day Against St. Michael, St. Gabriel,
Human Trafficking St. Vincent de Paul St. Raphael
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, CSJSUNDAY 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
St. Therese of Lisieux 1 Guardian Angels
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
3 St. Francis of Assisi 4 World Teachers’ Day 5l New Moon 6 Our Lady of the Rosary
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
Health Day 10 St. John XXIII 11 12 13 14 CSJ Founders’ Day
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
for Poverty Eradication 17 St. Luke 18 St. Isaac Jogues and
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.
United Nations Day 24 Trees” with visionary
scientist Diana Beresford-
Kroeger.
Giant,” in Utah; you will
be amazed!
Stones have been known
to move and trees to
speak! – Shakespeare
25 26 Karen Klimczak, SSJ
1943-2006 27 Sts. Simon and Jude 28 29 30
Halloween 31 October 2021Tell 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 EarleSUNDAY 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
1 2 3 4 5 6
to soar into the sky.
All Souls’ Day
All Saints’ Day Election Day (US) St. Martin de Porres l New Moon
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
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
(new moon)
Marie Curie 1867-1934 Veterans Day, U.S. St. Frances
Daylight Savings Time ends Dorothy Day 1897-1980 Thomas Berry 1914-2009 St. Leo the Great St. Martin of Tours Xavier Cabrini
…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
1840-1926 14 Georgia O’Keefe
1887-1986 15 16
St. Margaret of Scotland
St. Elizabeth
of Hungary 17 18 m Beaver Moon 19 Universal
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
Christ the King 21 St. Cecilia 22 23 24 Thanksgiving Day 25 Sojourner Truth
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 2021Close the door of hate and
open the door of love all
over the world.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Mother and Children” by Pat Willems, CSJSUNDAY 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
World Aids Day 1 El Salvador Martyrs
of 1980 2 St. Francis Xavier 3l 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
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
II Advent
International St. Nicholas Day Pearl Harbor
Volunteer Day Hanukkah ends Remembrance Day Immaculate Conception St. Juan Diego Human Rights Day
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
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III Advent
Our Lady of
Guadalupe St. Lucy St. John of the Cross Cold Moon
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.
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
– Ada V. Hendricks
IV Advent Solstice Christmas Eve Christmas
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 2021It 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. Listen to the sounds of the waves within you.
– L.Matonich – Rumi
“In our interconnected world, we all share the same nest.” “Honor and Redemption” by Angela Chostner
– Susan Cohen Thompson
January February March
“Bees” by Mary Southard, CSJ
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flowers a day.
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