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RARE BUTTERFLIES IN OUR ISLANDS
In 1998, the ISLAND MARBLE (Euchloe ausonides insulanus), thought to be extinct since 1908, was discovered during a prairie butterfly survey at American Camp on San JuanIsland. The only known...
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PEACE FOR ALL
Painting- Yahon Wang, age 17 Pope Francis’ Prayer for PeaceLord God of peace, hear our prayer!We have tried so many times and over so many years to resolve our conflicts by our own powers and by the...
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ANOTHER PRAYER
PRAYER FOR PEACE IN THE HOLYLAND Mary Queen of Peace Icon written by Father Richard G. Cannuli, OSA, MFA Queen of peace, Chosen daughter of a land still devastated by wars, hatred and...
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VALIANT WOMEN IN WAR
The Deluge - Winifred Margaret Knights- British (d.1947) Months ago, when addressing of the mess in the Ukraine, Pope Francis spoke of the plight of the women who carry so...
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CATHOLIC NOBLE PRIZE WINNER- 2023
This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature goes to a Norwegian novelist and playwright who became a Catholic later in life (2012). JON FOSSE, while unknown outside Europe, was selected for his wealth of...
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FAVORITE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
The other Norwegian Catholic to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is our monastery’s much loved author, SIGRID UNDSET. Here is a book I highly recommend. The information here is taken from the...
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SIGRID UNDSET
Although her father was Norwegian, SIGRID UNDSETwas born in 1882 in the small town of Kalundborg in Denmark, at the childhood home of her mother, Charlotte. She was the eldest of three daughters....
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WORLD PEACE
A Prayer for World Peace We pray for the power to be gentle; the strength to be forgiving; the patience to be understanding; and the endurance to...
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PRAYER FOR OUR WORLD
O God, Creator of the universe, who extends your paternal concern over every creature and guides the events of history to goals of salvation, we acknowledge your Fatherly love when you break the...
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FORGIVE US WAR
Prayer for peace Pope Francis recited at his weekly general audience March 16, 2022Composed by Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples Though written for the war in Ukraine, please pray also for peace...
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INSTRUMENTS OF PEACE
PEACE PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS of ASSISI Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is...
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CHANGE OUR HEARTS
We are only a few weeks away from Advent- one asks how did the time fly? It seems our focus for the past two years has been on war and its effects on our world. People are losing hope, especially the...
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CEASE WAR! FROM THE HOLY FATHER
8 nuns in Chapel- Alfredo Ramos MartinezNovember 5, Pope Francis begged for an end to war. “I continue to think about the serious situation in Palestine and in Israel...
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AMERICAN MARTYR IN KOREA
As today we face a world with such hatred and loss of life, we find another American who is being considered for canonization, who knew in his lifetime persecution.SERVANT of GOD PATRICK BRENNANwas...
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SERVANT OF GOD WILLI GRAF was a German member of the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany. The Catholic Church in Germany included Willi in their list of martyrs of the 20th century. In 2017,...
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JOYOUS ART- IN THE UKRAINE
We have not forgotten the Ukraine in our thoughts and prayers, in the midst of another war, in the Holy Land. So many people right now are asking for prayers. We are all effected by what is happening,...
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UKRAINIAN FRIEND OF KLIMT
Another Ukrainian artist, who has had a great influence on the younger generation, is the early modernist painter, FEDIR KRYCHEVSKY. He was born in 1879 in Lebedyn, in the Kharkov Governorate of the...
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GREAT GRANDFATHER OF THE CHANT
Tomorrow is the feast of St. Cecilia, Virgin and martyr and the patroness of the Abbey in France founded by Mere Cecile Bruyere, OSB (See Blog 9/21/2023) with the help of SERVANT OF GOD DOM PROSPER...
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ANOTHER FAVORITE FROM THE UKRAINE
VIKTOR ZARETSKY was born in Bilopillya, Ukraine in 1925. A graduate of the Kyiv State Art Institute, he taught there and worked as a graphic artist.He and his wife Alla Horska (Next Blog) were part...
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HISTORY REPEATED- ARTIST/ACTIVIST IN UKRAINE
ALLA HORSKAborn in 1929 in Yalta (on the Crimea) was a Ukrainian artist of the 1960s, monumentalist painter, one of the first representatives of the underground art movement, dissident, and human...
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