The Good News
Keepers of the Wild
Keepers of the Wild is an internationally recognized exotic animal sanctuary founded in 1995 by one of the world’s most unique animal behaviorists, Jonathan Kraft. Known as the Dutch Doctor Doolittle, Jonathan comes with an astonishing story of transformation, whereby a lion named Sampson changed his life’s path. Jonathan and his sanctuary have been featured on The Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel. Jonathon has today made it his life’s mission to give sanctuary to an incredible number of exotics from abused large cats and wolves to iguanas and emus. His utmost desire is to educate the public worldwide to the plight of these great animals who suffer abuse and brutality by human hands while in captivity. He seeks to have new high standards set in the United States and around the world for the humane treatment of exotic animals living in captivity. CLICK HERE to view one of their website pages which is highly educational and deserves your immediate attention!
I recently received a letter from Tina Matejek, the Assistant Director of Keepers of the Wild with a plea for support as they are faced with many new animal arrivals and they don’t want to turn any of them away.
Please consider supporting Keepers of the Wild and the fantastic work they are doing for so many of the beautiful creatures that fill the earth.
Steward Alerts
Our Sunday Visitor“Bringing your Catholic Faith to life”
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John Salsa and his new book, The Biblical Basis for the Eucharist
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Steward Activities
The World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
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How about being a Volun-tourist?
Father Ron’s Column
Teach Us to Pray
Father Ron’s column this week is TEACH US TO PRAY. He shares with us a reflection from The Liturgy of the Hours, From the Imitation of Christ where he reflects on the verse Turn to the Lord with your whole heart and leave behind this wretched world. Then your soul shall find rest. Father Ron asks us to allow ourselves to be better listeners, something he himself has been wrestling with of late, thereby allowing God to come into our hearts and initiate conversation with us in an intimate way.
Inspiration Blooms: by Sister Marie Rene, SSJ
“Just for a Minute”
Sister Marie Rene kept a pamphlet she found in the pew of St. Mary’s Church in Pittsburgh, PA, years ago. She happened to bring it out this past week and re-read it. She said it so reminded her of her own mother who always did as this poetic verse asks.
Susi’s Commentary
It’s Not a Symbol
Father Ron’s and Sister Marie Rene’s articles of visitation to the Blessed Sacrament opened a floodgate of exhortation for Susi as she shares the beauty behind the act of adoration.
Wellness & Nutrition
You Are What You Eat
When we think of organic we think of natural, pure, wholesome and expensive. But few of us think of organic in terms of sewage sludge.
What?
Here is perhaps the biggest if not the best reason to buy organic. 8 million tons of bio-solids, better known as sewage sludge, is marketed to American farmers and gardeners to aid in growing our food. Only the food that is labeled USDA certified organic is regulated to guard against it being grown on land treated with this sludge.
Just take a moment to think what you put down the garbage disposal, sink or toilet. If you live where you receive city and/or county utility services, the items you send to the sewage plant and the human solid waste bring with them a multitude of toxic compounds. Once the water is removed from the waste, you have a solid by-product called sludge. The EPA requires testing for 9 chemical elements and 2 bacteria before passing on the use of sewage sludge on land. But, that testing could be once or month or once a year. Pharmaceuticals, pathogens and even heavy metals could be absorbed by food crops, grazing animals and edible botanicals thus ending up in our bodies.
That’s a pretty ugly visual.
So, to better educate yourself on whether or not you might be eating sewage, we recommend checking in at the United Sludge-Free Alliance and become informed.
Stargazing
Our Good News this week focuses on the loving sanctuary that is given to big cats. And in the sky, the biggest cat is honored with a constellation, the constellation of Leo which in Latin means Lion.
To find Leo look for the two stars of the Big Dipper’s scoop closest to the handle, which actually point to Leo’s brightest star, Regulus. Regulus spins much faster than our sun, is 350 times more luminous than our sun and is egg-shaped to boot.
Here, in the northern hemisphere, we see Leo best during the Spring, a crouching lion facing west with a very distinctive head and mane…a sickle of stars that flow looking like a backwards question mark.
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Christian the Lion: A Love Story
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