10/02/2026
Blessing of the Animals This Saturday, Dane Street Beach at 4pm in Beverly, MA!
A celebration of St Francis, and the blessing of our animals.
More October happenings on our news page. link in bio
CARE FOR THE EARTH AND SAINT FRANCIS
“I thought that environmental problems were the loss of biodiversity, the destruction of ecosystems and climate change.I thought that with thirty years of good scientific progress, these problems could be halted. But I was wrong. The main environmental problems are egoism, greed, and apathy, and to face them we need a spiritual and cultural transformation. And we, as scientists, do not know what to do.”—James Gustave Speth
This was the candid confession of James Gustave Speth, who served for more than a decade as the dean of Yale University’s prestigious School of the Environment. Speth was influential in shaping environmental policy both in the United States and around the world. He was head of the United Nations Environment Program…
I am convinced that our current environmental degradation has much deeper roots than is generally assumed. The ecological crisis is, in fact, symptomatic of a deeper spiritual, cultural, and ultimately relational crisis. The crisis is a reflection of the deep disharmony within us that results from the rupture of the basic relationships that weave and sustain our existence…- Catholic Theologian Joshtrom Kureethadam, from the Introduction to Ecological Sin: Rupture of Relationships
