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Poscript: 2026 Season of Creation October 29th, 2026
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The Season of Creation has ended but here is an additional reflection that carries the message and is an invitation that the care for creation continues.
A HUGE thank you to Maurice Lange for sharing these spiritually enriching reflections with us.
IMAGE 1 CAPTION: Author (Maurice Lange, left) with Fr. Larry ‘Lorenzo’ Rosebaugh, OMI, (right) in a photograph from many years ago.
“I was blessed through friendship with Fr. Larry Rosebaugh, OMI. Lorenzo was prophet, oddball and martyr.” – Maurice Lange
(Reflection by Maurice Lange, Justice & Peace Director at Presentation Sisters & founder of the Oblate Ecological Initiative)
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks” — (Isaiah 2:4)
REFLECTION: “We will move…” Remember a time when you moved. Moving is rarely easy: it involves sorting, packing…and letting go. Pope Leo has called us throughout his Message to be “collaborators in God’s work of renewal”. Renewal requires movement, thus a letting go. A releasing of former perceptions, habits, understandings – so that the new in “renewal” may emerge.
During this very recent Season of Creation: where did you move from and to?
ACTION: This Season of Creation has been completed, and, our work continues.
> What swords and which spears within our own perspectives need ongoing transformation into that which is lifegiving?
> Why not become the change you wish to see in the world?
> Your moving on animates others in ways you’ll never know.
>Your walking courageously along such a path of renewal fosters Christ’s peace becoming more evident in all of Creation.
“We lack an awareness of our common origin, of our mutual belonging, and of a future to be shared with everyone… A great cultural, spiritual and educational challenge stands before us, and it will demand that we set out on the long path of renewal.” (Laudato Si #202)
FULL REFLECTION: https://bit.ly/4jzTDD8
Visit the Presentation Sisters, US Province’s WEBSITE: https://bit.ly/4yVPDAN
ARTICLE about Fr. Lorenzo: https://bit.ly/4ivDhJx
Three Part Harmony Farm’s (3PH) Fall Open House is Saturday, Nov 7 October 27th, 2026
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If you are local to Washington, DC and its surrounding areas, please join us: https://bit.ly/4yy6KZ5
THREE PART HARMONY FARM FALL FEST
DATE: November 7 | 10 AM–1 PM
LOCATION: 3122 4th St NE , Washington, DC 20017
Come for the fall foraging, seed saving, art, food, and music!
- 11 AM: Wonderful Weeds of Fall
- Foraging with Candise Jordan
- &Seed Saving Station
- &Potluck Corner
- &Dandelions Drawing & Painting Workshop
- With Sasha + Edith
Featuring DJ Underdog
Can’t attend but want to support 3PH’s work, DONATIONS are also appreciated: https://bit.ly/4smE1oX
VIDEO: Hear from some CSA members and attendees at last year’s gathering: https://bit.ly/4ibR0EX
Fr. Séamus Finn, OMI, Offers a Faith Perspective at Responsible Mining Leadership Forum October 21st, 2026
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“I am participating in the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) Responsible Mining Leadership Forum, being held in London, England, October 19–21, 2026, as a representative of the Mining and Faith Reflections Initiative (MFRI).”
“The Mining and Faith Reflections Initiative (MFRI) looks to a global mining sector that contributes to a just, dignified and flourishing life for all people and ecology. It supports global faith communities and convenes courageous, trusted dialogue encouraging continued transformation in the mining sector to ensure it serves the needs of humanity and ecology now and into the future.”
(Fr. Séamus Finn, OMI)
PROGRAM REPORT: https://bit.ly/4iwISQM
WEBSITE – Mining and Faith Reflections Initiative: https://mfri-global.org/
WEBSITE – International Council on Mining and Metals: https://www.icmm.com
GLOBAL MAP CAPTION: Global mine locations mapped onto vulnerability of biodiversity
Wise Builders: A Prayer with Magnifica Humanitas October 14th, 2026
Wise Builders: A Prayer with Magnifica Humanitas
Prepared by Fr. Rohan Dominic, CMF — Coordinator, Claretian Missionaries Team @ the United Nations
Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity), invites us to reflect on human dignity and the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence, from its effects on work and relationships, to questions about who controls data and whose interests technology serves.
As technology advances, how can we ensure that it protects human dignity and serves the common good?
🙏 Explore this resource with us and take a moment to pray and reflect that AI’s development and use are guided by human dignity, moral responsibility, and the common good
DOWNLOAD PRAYER: https://bit.ly/4zy5qXk
2026 Season of Creation Final Reflection October 2nd, 2026
(Reflections by Maurice Lange, Justice & Peace Director at Presentation Sisters & founder of the Oblate Ecological Initiative)
We are ending the Season of Creation with this last Reflection inspired by Pope Leo’s letter and theme for the observance:
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks” — (Isaiah 2:4)
REFLECTION: “…God does not leave us without the means of healing and transformation.” Along with this assurance, Pope Leo encourages us in our call to safeguard ecosystems…and, he also challenges us to imagine.
Safeguarding and imagining. Safeguarding requires God’s gift of strength. Imagining is plainly counter-cultural.
As we near the end of this Season of Creation:
-What “ecosystem” are you actively safeguarding?
-Devote at least twice as much time to imagining as you currently do!
ACTION: Leo links the imagining of a world beyond war with our faith in the coming of God’s kingdom. Author Philip José Farmer once said “Imagination is like a muscle”. Strengthen your ability to imagine & envision! Here are some exercises! (https://www.thedailymeditation.com/imagination-exercises)
“Because Christ’s promises appeal to our imagination: they help us to imagine in a new way our lives, our history and the future of humanity.” – Pope Francis in an Audience, 5/27/23
FULL REFLECTION: https://bit.ly/3TeImgQ
Visit the Presentation Sisters, US Province’s WEBSITE: https://pbvmunion.org/…/laudato-si-action-platform…/
