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The World We Have, by Thich Nhat Hanh. Parallax Press, 2008. This is the first book by this author that I have read, even though
his name is widely known. My first impression was that he must be related to Pope Francis because the style and content of both authors seem to be so much alike. Consider these topics: Diet for a Mindful Planet, Nature and Nonviolence, Caring for the Environmentalist, Breathing Exercise, Deep Relaxation, Touching the Earth, and Earth Peace Treaty. The moral of this book is: If we don’t consume with mindfulness and compassion, we will in
effect be eating our children. What would happen to our earth, if humans were suddenly extracted? How long would it take the rest of nature to obliterate our deep tracks, undo our damage and soften our scars? All the carbon we have exhumed and redeposited in the atmosphere would take much longer to reabsorb. And yet the Budha says that nothing we do is permanent. Nanh says that all over the Earth we are experiencing floods,
droughts, and massive wildfires. Sea ice is melting in the Arctic, and hurricanes and heat waves are killing thousands. Forests are fast disappearing, deserts are growing, species are becoming extinct every day, and yet we continue to consume, ignoring the ringing bells. It seems that this ringing of the bells is the theme of this book, and it sounds so much like Pope Francis speaking. Read either author and note the similarity in tone. Both authors merit deep
reading and prayerful contemplation.
Thanks to Sr. Irene
Hartman, OP for this review.
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St. Hildegard of Bingen: (1098-1179): September 17.
Hildegard of Bingen,
O.S.B., also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath. She is considered to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.
Hildegard was elected magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136; she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and
Eibingen in 1165. One of her works as a composer, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play. She wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, and poems, while supervising miniature illuminations in the Rupertsberg manuscript of her first work, Scivias. She is also noted for the invention of a constructed language known as Lingua Ignota.
Although the history of her formal
consideration is complicated, she has been recognized as a saint by branches of the Roman Catholic Church for centuries. On 7 October 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named her a Doctor of the Church.
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