A Catholic Land Movement: "There Was a Boy Went Forth"

Friday, June 14, 2013

"There Was a Boy Went Forth"

Riding four wheelers...

Jumping off hay bales in the dairy barn...

Babies in slings while doing cow chores...

"These became part of that child who went forth every day,

and who now goes, and will always go forth every day."

-Walt Whitman, There Was a Child Went Forth

1 comment:

LauraJune 17, 2013 at 3:02 PM
Hi,
My name is Laura and I live in a little house on the Colorado prairie. I just found your blog, as I was referred here by a friend... both the blog and your endeavors look awesome... blessings...
I'll be reading more later, but I just wanted to say hi...
I think it's especially awesome how you talk about having the little ones with you. We've been married five years and I'm pregnant with Baby5, so I get it.
I blog about our homesteading at homesteadfailure.blogspot.com
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"It is essential to cultivate and spread a clear ethic that is up to the task of addressing current challenges: Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which are based on perennial values, such as hospitality, solidarity, and the sharing of the toil of labor. More than a few young people have already chosen this path; also many professionals are returning to dedicate themselves to the agricultural enterprise, feeling that they are responding not only to a personal and family need, but also to a 'sign of the times,' to a concrete sensibility for the 'common good.'

"Let us pray to the Virgin Mary that these reflections can serve as a stimulus to the international community, while we give our thanks to God for the fruits of the earth and the work of man."

Pope Benedict XVI

NOV. 14, 2010
From an address titled:
On Agricultural Work