Religion & Spirituality
This is the end of the third week of this Advent season where we are linking bible passages for the day with the Sustainable Development Goals that 193 countries adopted to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda to be achieved by 2030.Today's quotation is from Psalms 33:3 "Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise. The hymn may then be defined as a metrical or rhythmical praise of God; and the psalm, accompanied sacred song or canticle, either taken from the Psalms or from some less authoritative source (St. Augustine declaring that a canticle may be without a psalm but not a psalm without a canticle).From The Canticle of Creation Center (CoCC) is a new pilot endeavor of the Sisters of St. Francis of Dubuque initiated in 2017 as one way to share our Franciscan legacy of striving to live in right relationship with all creation.OUR VISION:Canticle of Creation Center:An Earth Sanctuary of Solitude and StudyOUR MISSION:Honoring our Franciscan heritage that All is Gift and in a spirit of gratitude, we are committed to live in right relationship with all creation, by:Cherishing and caring for the land entrusted to usInspiring a deepening awareness and appreciation of the natural beauty of Earth, our Common HomeStrengthening awareness of the interconnectedness of all lifeFostering learning, reflection, respite and healing through individual and shared experiences with creationCollaborating wherever possible, modeling nature’s web of interrelationshipsFrom