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March Blog 2023

3/5/2023

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I acknowledge and thank the Lkwungen People for allowing me to live, pray, work, and play on their lands. I am deeply sorry for the injustices inflicted upon the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in Turtle Island by the complicity of Governments & settlers, including the Catholic Church, in the colonialism inherent in the Indian Act and Residential Schools including racism, neglect, many forms of abuse & cultural genocide. I commit to work for truth, healing and reconciliation.
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1. LENT
Fasting
Isaiah 58:6-7 “Is this not, rather, the fast that I choose: releasing those bound unjustly,
untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, breaking off every yoke?


Is it not sharing your bread with the hungry, bringing the afflicted and the homeless into your house; Clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own flesh?”

Two suggestions on how to live Lent day by day.
Both are very worthwhile:

1. See the Caritas Canada/Development & Peace Share Lent Calendar:
https://www.devp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023_Calendar_Lent_EN2.pdf

2. See the Laudato Si’ Movement Lent 2023 Calendar:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16TxTW9oCnykqgdjP0kB6ogRxmpWOsljU/view


Two Ways of the Cross for Lent 2023
1. Caritas Canada/ Development & Peace
https://www.devp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023_Way_of_the_Cross_EN.pdf
Each station has a Scripture passage, a Meditation, a Quote and a prayer.


2. Laudato si’ Movementhttps://laudatosilent.org scroll down to Way of the Cross
This one is much shorter. Each station just has a prayer, each one is right on!                   

                                                                                ....Read more at Andrew's Blog


2. A GREAT RESOURCE
LAUDATO SI’ MOVEMENT PRAYER BOOK
https://mail.laudatosimovement.org/landing/prayerbook
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....Read more at Andrew's Blog

3. TOMÁS INSUA  to step down
as executive director of Laudato si’ Movement










Read Tomas Insula's letter HERE
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“I’ll end my service as Executive Director in mid-2023 to then keep working towards LSM’s mission from a new place"...

... The Argentine-born Insua said he plans to exit as executive director in mid-2023, and will remain in the movement but in new ways. That includes work on establishing its new Laudato Si' Center in Assisi — the birthplace of St. Francis of Assisi...                    ....Read more at Andrew's Blog


4. UKRAINE
сла́ва Украї́ні!
 (sláva Ukrajíni!) Glory to Ukraine!
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Pope Francis greets a group of Ukrainian children at the end of his weekly general audience Feb. 22, 2023, in the Vatican audience hall. During the audience, the pope noted that the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is Feb. 24 and prayed for an end to the war. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)                                                                             ....Read more at Andrew's Blog

5. SYNOD
https://bccatholic.ca/news/catholic-van/vancouver-synod-delegate-helping-to-paint-the-church-in-all-its-colours
Barb Dowding, the special assistant to Archbishop Miller was part of an 18-person synod writing team of individuals appointed by the Canadian and U.S. bishops conferences to work on a “continental synthesis” of the Church in North America, capturing the “resonances, tensions, and themes” taking place among Canadian and American Catholics...                 ....Read more at Andrew's Blog

Pax et bonum, Andrew Conradi, ofs

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    Homeless Jesus - Jesuits.ca

    Andrew Conradi, ofs

    ​What makes me tick is Catholic Social Teaching, now encapsulated in Laudato Si’ and Fratelli Tutti. My view is that while the OFS Rule & Constitutions call us to courageous action in JPIC it seems to me our infrastructure, while saying the right things, is not always acting with the required urgency and forcefulness. It seems at times to be more self-sustaining and self-perpetuating and about the status quo. This risks being seen as irrelevant in the eyes of some, especially youth.

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    ​In encouraging us to be aware and act with urgency and forcefulness I can be seen to be a bit of a joyful nuisance. Forgive me for not apologising. “Jesus himself warns us that the path he proposes goes against the flow, even making us challenge society by the way we live and, as a result, becoming a nuisance.”
    (Pope Francis, 2018, Gaudete et exultate – Rejoice & be glad, n 90)
    After all, Our Seraphic Father Francis was a rebel (check out the 2018 book Francesco il ribelle by Enzo Fortunato, OFM Conv)
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    ​(Poster from Canadian Jesuits)
    BTW I am a Brit immigrant, ex Canadian high school geography and history teacher and Cold War armoured reconnaissance soldier. Other accomplishments include OFM JPIC Animators course 2014, Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome; JPIC Animator; Provocateur (Challenger); Enfant Terrible and sometimes definitely a deliberate NUISANCE! I am open to correction, chastisement, and/or teaching by email!
     apconradi@telus.net

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