We had scheduled a Volunteer Search Meeting at the Main Branch Boone County Library on KY 18 in Burlington, Ky. on August 2nd from 11:00am till 3pm. We had hoped to get atleast 25 potential volunteers to attend. The meeting results were very unsettling! We had 3 people show up. All of which are already volunteers. So we still have no new volunteers. We still need someone to head our fundraising dept. and someone to organize adopt-a-thons. We have information for those of you who would like to host Home Parties to raise funds for our cause. Home Parties can be very fun and rewarding! Some of you may qualify to make some additional income selling at Home Parties! Please pass the word along. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!!!!!!
We have found a suitable property for our Rescue/Reserve! Just click the link below to see the details of the property.
http://www.realtor.com/realestate/1094557512/#Detail
If everything goes as planned with our current fundraisers, we should be able to purchase this property within the next few months. Please help make this possible by participating in a fundraiser or donating funds now! Please hurry while the property is still available!
St. Francis was in awe of the swallow, the cricket and the wolf. “Where the modern cynic sees something ‘buglike’ in everything that exists,” observed the German writer-philosopher Max Scheler, “St. Francis saw even in a bug the sacredness of life.”
The very animals found in Francis a tender friend and protector; thus we find him pleading with the people of Gubbio to feed the fierce wolf that had ravished their flocks, because through hunger "Brother Wolf" had done this wrong. And the early legends have left us many an idyllic picture of how beasts and birds alike susceptible to the charm of Francis's gentle ways, entered into loving companionship with him; how the hunted leveret sought to attract his notice; how the half-frozen bees crawled towards him in the winter to be fed; how the wild falcon fluttered around him; how the nightingale sang with him in sweetest content in the ilex grove at the Carceri, and how his "little brethren the birds" listened so devoutly to his sermon by the roadside near Bevagna that Francis chided himself for not having thought of preaching to them before. Francis's love of nature also stands out in bold relief in the world he moved in. He delighted to commune with the wild flowers, the crystal spring, and the friendly fire, and to greet the sun as it rose upon the fair Umbrian vale. In this respect, indeed, St. Francis's "gift of sympathy" seems to have been wider even than St. Paul's, for we find no evidence in the great Apostle of a love for nature or for animals.
Through his example, St. Francis reminds us that we are called to bring about justice and peace in our world, to end violence and war, poverty and oppression and to protect our fragile planet.
