From this weeks church bulletin:
OLPH has gone green with eco-palms! Eco-palms help us celebrate Palm Sunday by guaranteeing economic justice for farmers and stewardship of God's Creation in Guatemala and Mexico. Eco-palms are harvested in such a way that rewards workers for the quality of the palms they harvest rather than the quantity, which helps limit the amount of palms taken from a forest.
The Eco-Palm Project is a project endorsed by Catholic Relief Services. By having purchased Eco-Palms, all of us here at OLPH are playing an important role in protecting forests, local jobs and sustainable livelihoods in the harvesting of communities.
Eco-palms may look a little different from what we traditionally expect, but with the People of Jerusalem in the time of Christ, let us wave our branches of palm proudly, knowing that we are heralding the presence of Christ in our midst and Christ's presence in the farm worker as we preserve our Planet for the future generations!
As Father Lipnicki said,
"It may fly in the face of tradition but it's the right thing do!"
From Time Magazine's Numbers Section - Thursday, March 14, 2008
RELIGION
2,130 Number of U.S. congregations using environmentally friendly "eco-palms" in their Palm Sunday services. Traditional palm-harvesting wastes more than 50% of the fronds
$47.50 Average cost of 200 eco-palms, compared with about $22 for traditional palms
2,130 Number of U.S. congregations using environmentally friendly "eco-palms" in their Palm Sunday services. Traditional palm-harvesting wastes more than 50% of the fronds
$47.50 Average cost of 200 eco-palms, compared with about $22 for traditional palms
One of the things I enjoy most about church is the music and they did one of my favorites today!
I Danced in the Morning...
I found this version the Web and it's beautiful (scroll down past the lyrics and click on the box to hear the song), but I think there is something very moving about hearing it sung by the children's choir in church.
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