by Jennie Murphy | Sep 12, 2025 | Blog Articles
Eight hundred years ago, in 1225, St. Francis of Assisi wrote the Canticle of the Creatures: a prayer of praise that many Italian students still learn by heart in school today. Ten years ago, in 2015, Pope Francis published the encyclical Laudato Si’: one of the...
by Jennie Murphy | Sep 5, 2025 | Blog Articles
Jesus tells us not to worry about our lives. This is easier said than done, so he gives us the example of the birds for reassurance: “they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them” (Matthew 6:26). It is good to be...
by Jennie Murphy | Sep 3, 2025 | Blog Articles
At the end of July 2025, former director, Fr. Joe Laramie, SJ, our new Assistant National Director, Grace Mazza Urbanski, and part of the USA team headed to Paray-le-Monial, France. They traveled there on pilgrimage to attend a gathering hosted by the international...
by Jennie Murphy | Sep 2, 2025 | Blog Articles, Pope Video
This month, Pope Leo XIV invites us to pray “for our relationship with all of creation.” Inspired by Saint Francis of Assis, he invites us to experience our interdependence with all creatures loved by God and worthy of respect and love. His prayer...
by Jennie Murphy | Sep 1, 2025 | Blog Articles
Lord, who loves all beings and hates nothing you have made (Wisdom 11:24). Every creature, Father, is an object of your tenderness, and you give each one a place in the world. I am amazed to see that the fleeting life of the smallest being is the object of your love,...
by Jennie Murphy | Aug 22, 2025 | Blog Articles
In the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius offers us the image of God looking at the world and deciding to become incarnate in order to save humanity. “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have...
