Julian:

Disciple & Scientist

© Mary Cresp RSJ

“Ministers of religion were notable among the educated group of

19th century Australia andit was proper for educated

people to be well read in whatwas called natural history.

Also at that time a closer relationship was perceived between science and religion than would be understood today. Then there was a search for harmony in all that is. Science was part of the understanding of creation … and the development of science was all part of the missionary work.” (Peter Anderson, “Julian Tenison Woods”)

Julian the Scientist

Reading: Sirach 42: 15-16, 18-23

‘Just as all things reflect the light of the sun,

so all the works of creationreflect the light of God’s glory.’

Julian the Scientist

Reading: Sirach 42: 15-16, 18-23

‘God has given an order to allthe great works of Wisdom,

and is their Sourcefor ages and untold ages.’

Julian the Scientist

Reading: Sirach 42: 15-16, 18-23

‘God’s works endureeach of them activeand each of them

fulfilling many purposes.’

Touch the Earth with gentlenessTouch the Earth with love,Touch her with a futureBy the way you live today.God has given us the powerTo create the world anewIf we touch the Earth togetherMe and you.

Touch the Earth Kathy Sherman CSJ

The time is here, the time is now,

we can change things.Give the Earth your dream for harmony; she is waiting,waiting for love, waiting for you, waiting for me. …

..to touch the Earth with gentleness.Touch the Earth with love.Touch her with a futureby the way you live today.God has given us the powerto create the world anew,if we touch the Earth togetherme and you.

Show the Earth you care about her future, melt the walls of hate and fear that keep us apart. Believe we can live togetheras friends of the Earth.

So touch the Earth with gentlenesstouch the Earth with love,touch her with a futureby the way you live today.God has given us the powerto create the world anewif we touch the Earth togetherme and you.

So be the reason, be the hope for others to believe that the Earth is meant for beauty, goodness and peace, and that our God of love is God of the Earth’s one family.

So touch the Earth with gentlenessTouch the Earth with love,Touch her with a futureBy the way you live today.God has given us the powerTo create the world anewIf we touch the Earth togetherMe and you.

Our LegacyA Shared Vision

In a musical instrument we see if some, or if only one, of the chords go wrong, the rest are in some way suffering from it. We know at once what is wrong by the sound these suffering chords make, until it is repaired and harmony restored

again. … So, all pull together, and all be of one mind and one spirit.

Instruction to Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, 30 Nov., 1880.

God, we thank youfor the legacy given us

by Father Julian Woods.We share the vision he left us,of peoples living in harmony

with your creation.Be with us, as we ponder today what that vision requires of us

in an age when scientific knowledge is often set against faith.

We ask this invoking the Spirit, and in the name of your Son,

Jesus. Amen.