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Lighting a Candle in Remembrance of Saint Francis

October 4th 2022

Pope Francis: “Saint Francis of Assisi, who saw himself as brother of the sun, the sea and the wind, sowed seeds of peace everywhere, and walked alongside the poor, the abandoned, the infirm, the outcast, the least. Let us follow his example!”

SJS: and remembering a day back in the late 1980s, before traveling to live in Santa Fe.

Here's an iPhone pic of a Rosary that Pope John Paul II handed to your GreenPolicy360 siterunner in Los Angeles, 1987 ...

Remembering our conversation as I spoke to him of my thoughts re his decision to announce St. Francis as Patron Saint of Ecology in 1979.

I said after, as I described my time with Pope John "back stage" in a small room after the Mass ceremony we held, where I stood near the Pope and looked out at 'Angelinos' filling the aisles of St Vibiana's church... and now am still smiling at the memory of how the Pope prior to mass greeted my parents as he walked up the center aisle, stopping at their row and how he reached out to my mother and then reached out to shake my father's hand...

An interfaith day, an eco day, a very special day in a city called Los Angeles

• https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/why-francis-assisi-patron-saint-ecology

• https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-09-13-me-7638-story.html

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment

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