Earth Day and Homecoming Farm May 5, 2016

In honor of Earth Day, we planted an Ornamental Kwanzan Cherry tree near St. Dominic’s Chapel on our Queen of the Rosary Motherhouse grounds.

In a special gathering before the planting we viewed and discussed two beautiful videos: “The Canticle of Creation” which can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpPSZkmr_Js and “Why a tree? Find out more from the video “Trees for the Earth – Earth Day 2016 at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP7It6xqBNI&feature-youtu.be.

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