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The Good News
Keepers of the Wild www.keepersofthewild.orgKeepers of the Wild is an
internationally recognized exotic animal sanctuary founded in 1995 by
one of the world's most unique animal behaviorists, Jonathan Kraft.
Known as the Dutch Doctor Doolittle, Jonathan comes with an astonishing
story of transformation, whereby a lion named Sampson changed his life's
path. Jonathan and his sanctuary have been featured on The Discovery
Channel and the National Geographic Channel. Jonathon has today made it
his life's mission to give sanctuary to an incredible number of exotics
from abused large cats and wolves to iguanas and emus. His utmost desire
is to educate the public worldwide to the plight of these great animals
who suffer abuse and brutality by human hands while in captivity. He
seeks to have new high standards set in the United States and around the
world for the humane treatment of exotic animals living in captivity. CLICK HERE to view one of their
website pages which is highly educational and deserves your immediate
attention! I recently received a letter from Tina
Matejek, the Assistant Director of Keepers of the Wild with a plea for
support as they are faced with many new animal arrivals and they don't
want to turn any of them away. Please consider supporting Keepers of the Wild and the
fantastic work they are doing for so many of the beautiful creatures
that fill the earth.
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Steward Alerts
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Father Ron's Column
Teach
Us to Pray
 Father Ron's column this week is TEACH US TO PRAY. He shares with
us a reflection from The Liturgy of the Hours, From the Imitation of
Christ where he reflects on the verse Turn to the Lord with
your whole heart and leave behind this wretched world. Then your soul
shall find rest. Father Ron asks us to allow ourselves to be better
listeners, something he himself has been wrestling with of late,
thereby allowing God to come into our hearts and initiate conversation
with us in an intimate way. READ MORE...
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Inspiration Blooms by Sister Marie Rene, SSJ
"Just for a Minute"
Sister Marie Rene kept a pamphlet she found
in the pew of St. Mary's Church in Pittsburgh, PA, years ago. She
happened to bring it out this past week and re-read it. She said it so
reminded her of her own mother who always did as this poetic verse asks. READ MORE...
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Susi's Commentary
It's Not a Symbol Father Ron's and Sister Marie Rene's
articles of visitation to the Blessed Sacrament opened a floodgate of
exhortation for Susi as she shares the beauty behind the act of
adoration. READ MORE...
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Wellness & Nutrition
You Are What You Eat www.usludgefree.orgWhen we think of organic we think
of natural, pure, wholesome and expensive. But few of us think of organic
in terms of sewage sludge. What? Here is perhaps the biggest if not the best
reason to buy organic. 8 million tons of bio-solids, better
known as sewage sludge, is marketed to American farmers and gardeners to
aid in growing our food. Only the food that is labeled USDA certified
organic is regulated to guard against it being grown on land treated
with this sludge. Just take a moment to think what you put
down the garbage disposal, sink or toilet. If you live where you receive
city and/or county utility services, the items you send to the sewage
plant and the human solid waste bring with them a multitude of toxic
compounds. Once the water is removed from the waste, you have a solid
by-product called sludge. The EPA requires testing for 9 chemical
elements and 2 bacteria before passing on the use of sewage sludge on
land. But, that testing could be once or month or once a year.
Pharmaceuticals, pathogens and even heavy metals could be absorbed by
food crops, grazing animals and edible botanicals thus ending up in our
bodies. That's a pretty ugly visual. So, to better educate yourself on whether
or not you might be eating sewage, we recommend checking in at the United Sludge-Free Alliance and
become informed.
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Stargazing
 Our Good News this week focuses on the loving sanctuary that is given
to big cats. And in the sky, the biggest cat is honored with a
constellation, the constellation of Leo which in Latin means Lion. To find Leo look for the two stars of the
Big Dipper's scoop closest to the handle, which actually point to Leo's
brightest star, Regulus. Regulus spins much faster than our sun, is 350
times more luminous than our sun and is egg-shaped to boot. Here, in the northern hemisphere, we see Leo best during the Spring, a
crouching lion facing west with a very distinctive head and mane...a
sickle of stars that flow looking like a backwards question mark.
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Christian the Lion: A Love Story
CLICK HERE to watch the tear-jerking reunion of Christian with his adoptive parents.
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PET OF THE WEEK
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CLICK HERE to read about
Guillermo, a rabbit that keeps everyone "on their toes."
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| FYI
Lions have been celebrated throughout
history for their courage and strength. They once roamed most of Africa
and parts of Asia and Europe. Today they are found only in parts of
sub-Saharan Africa, except for one very small population of Asian lions
that survives in India's Gir Forest.
~National Geographic
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FROM THE HOLY FATHER THIS WEEK
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| BUD'S BARKS!
I don't like using the computer. It's too messy "marking" every website I
visit. And besides, Windows 7 isn't even a window to hang my head out
of.
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