We’re working to:
build a permacultural homestead, striving to work with and not against the land to feed ourselves and our neighbors.
foster organic community. We strive strove to work with other intentional communities like Cherith Brook Catholic Worker, where we help maintain their holistic orchard and donate our surplus produce to their food pantry.
study, disseminate, and practice Catholic Social Teaching.
For example, Pope Francis wrote in Laudato Si (# 111 & 206-208) that “The way humanity treats the environment influences the way it treats itself, and vice versa. This invites contemporary society to a serious review of its life-style, which, in many parts of the world, is prone to hedonism and consumerism, regardless of their harmful consequences. What is needed is an effective shift in mentality which can lead to the adoption of new life-styles ‘in which the quest for truth, beauty, goodness and communion with others for the sake of common growth are the factors which determine consumer choices, savings and investments.’” This theme is repeatedly echoed through many social encyclicals:
Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate (#51)
JPII’s Centesimus annus (#36 & 52), Sollicitudo rei socialis (Section IV. Authentic Human Development), and Redemptor hominis #59
Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio (#19-21 & 41-42)
to pursue a life of holiness, because what is life for if not to struggle towards sainthood?