Project News
The Peace Pole Project
What better and more appropriate welcome to those at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre than the message of a Peace Pole. Each of the more than 200,000 Peace Poles worldwide carry the message “May Peace Prevail On Earth” in a variety of languages and dedicate the surrounding space as a place of peace.
The Ignatius Jesuit Centre of Guelph, known as “A Place of Peace” to its many friends, supporters and visitors could not be a more fitting place for a Peace Pole. We would like to add a Peace Pole, with 12 languages specially chosen to reflect the diversity of visitors to our centre, to our newly constructed outdoor prayer and meditation area but we need your help.
The cost of a Peace Pole and its installation is $2000 and we are asking each one of our friends to support this visual reminder of peace and our ministry.
The time to give is now. We would like to have this monument in place by the time we do our annual land blessing and our special Stations of the Cosmos Opening on May 31st. So please call our office if you want to contribute. If each person were able to give $20, $50 or more then we could achieve this target quickly. Please contact Miriam Koopman at 519-824-1250 ext 250 to donate.
With thanks for your generosity.
Contributing to a Common Good
Marianne Karsh, Coordinator of the Ecology Project, co-authors and authors recent publications:
- Co-authors with D.C. MacIver and N. Comer: ‘Gaps in Climate Change and Biodiversity - Implications for Monitoring, Science and Adaptive Planning’.
An Environment Canada Publication - Co-authors with D.C. MacIver, A. French, and H. Auld: ‘Climate-Based Predictions of Forest Biodiversity Using Smithsonian’s Global Earth Observing Network’
Featured in Climate Change and Biodiversity; edited by Prabha Shastri Rande. (Published by The Icfai University Press) - Two short articles in the July 2008 issue of the Environment Canada publication Adaptation Science: ‘Climate Change and Biodiversity Symposium: Opening Ceremonies’, and ‘Road Map: Outcomes of the Climate Change and Biodiversity Symposium’.
Ecology Project Research Associate John McCarthy S.J. completes an essay on the theological foundations of care for creation for the Belgian-based theological journal Nouvelle Revue Theologique. The piece reveals and celebrates the rich ecological promise of the classic Christian tradition. Fr. McCarthy is currently conducting a study of rare epiphytic lichens in Newfoundland.
Ecology Project founder James Profit, S.J. gave a talk on how Ignatian spirituality can address the ecological crisis at the 2007 Ignatian Spirituality Conference in Montreal. During the fall of 2008, he traveled to Spain to follow in the footsteps of St. Ignatius, co-leading a guided tour throughout Spain with Dr. Vicky Chen.