Love your incentive and business and look forward to future posts. I have always thought it would be great if we had a sort of Florarly/Vulnerary/bestiary of Our Lady in the same manner as we have been given by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay in his ‘Bestiary of Christ’ and Vulnerary of Christ’. All the best to your endeavour! God Bless
Someday I will share my ‘testimony’ on how I was inspired to come to this. It is all Mary’s idea and a lifetime of experience, road’s taken, conversations that were suddenly triggering’ me where that wasn’t happening before, and a wonderful talent that God gave me that I just never used. Thank you. I looked at your work and I saw you are a wealth of knowledge. The poetry would be wonderful in a homeschool unit study handwriting and memorizing with children. My hope with this seed business is to baptize the ‘earth day’ movement that is leading so many of young people to New Age and the sister cults. The Catholic Church has saints for that from the Middle Ages. Let’s stay in touch.
I would love to hear it ! Although like you say I’m sure a lot of it is the work of Our Lady, as it was for me and my journey, how wonderful it is to see Christ in his creation and of course she who “The Lord possessed at the beginning of his ways.” Who “existed before he formed any creature” Prov:8.
I love that you have managed to materialise your love for Our Lord and Lady and to go beyond and bring further into being our beautiful Sacramental religion with your seeds ! Thank you! You’re most welcome to use anything you find for something like that.
I very much like the idea of baptising “Earth Day” also, the Catholic Churches social teaching on Stewardship is under-developed especially in regard to the Marian nature of how it should be understood, @rossarlentieken on here and Sebastian Morello at other places, are certainly doing complimentary work to yours in these areas of Viriditas and Cosmic Mariology.
That is fascinating about Lupines and St. Mark, I look forward to seeing the seed bundles and furthers posts for certainly you are a wealth of knowledge and not me, God Bless!
Not sure if you’ve ever come across the archives of John Stokes, I never had but was pleasantly surprised to find such a treasure of Marian plants, flowers and symbols, very much aligned with your work!
I heard of him back in 2005. I even called the Marian library in Ohio to find more information about the Mary Gardens. Sadly, i did find out he passed on. I hope the business bears fruit from all of his hard work researching without the internet at that! He felt Mary Gardens would be what saved the world. He had that theme in some of his writings.
I figured you must have ! It seems that he helped create and inspired many other Americans to create Mary Gardens, it seems there is quite a few there. I endeavour to plant my own and find some other people’s gardens down here in the antipodes. May he Rest in Peace!
Btw, I am currently working on putting together a seed bundle (flora) of the plants with the Marian titles in recognition of the apostles in a tetramorph form. I had to wait for the Lupines to go to seed for this year’s crop. It’s been in the wings for a year. The lupine is St. Marks plant. I happen to have the book that you were referring to above. I’ll have to post the seed packet cover for you. It has the watchful lion on the cover.
Love your incentive and business and look forward to future posts. I have always thought it would be great if we had a sort of Florarly/Vulnerary/bestiary of Our Lady in the same manner as we have been given by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay in his ‘Bestiary of Christ’ and Vulnerary of Christ’. All the best to your endeavour! God Bless
Someday I will share my ‘testimony’ on how I was inspired to come to this. It is all Mary’s idea and a lifetime of experience, road’s taken, conversations that were suddenly triggering’ me where that wasn’t happening before, and a wonderful talent that God gave me that I just never used. Thank you. I looked at your work and I saw you are a wealth of knowledge. The poetry would be wonderful in a homeschool unit study handwriting and memorizing with children. My hope with this seed business is to baptize the ‘earth day’ movement that is leading so many of young people to New Age and the sister cults. The Catholic Church has saints for that from the Middle Ages. Let’s stay in touch.
I would love to hear it ! Although like you say I’m sure a lot of it is the work of Our Lady, as it was for me and my journey, how wonderful it is to see Christ in his creation and of course she who “The Lord possessed at the beginning of his ways.” Who “existed before he formed any creature” Prov:8.
I love that you have managed to materialise your love for Our Lord and Lady and to go beyond and bring further into being our beautiful Sacramental religion with your seeds ! Thank you! You’re most welcome to use anything you find for something like that.
I very much like the idea of baptising “Earth Day” also, the Catholic Churches social teaching on Stewardship is under-developed especially in regard to the Marian nature of how it should be understood, @rossarlentieken on here and Sebastian Morello at other places, are certainly doing complimentary work to yours in these areas of Viriditas and Cosmic Mariology.
That is fascinating about Lupines and St. Mark, I look forward to seeing the seed bundles and furthers posts for certainly you are a wealth of knowledge and not me, God Bless!
Thanks for the kind words. I will check the people you suggested
Not sure if you’ve ever come across the archives of John Stokes, I never had but was pleasantly surprised to find such a treasure of Marian plants, flowers and symbols, very much aligned with your work!
https://udayton.edu/marianlibrary/marysgardens/archive.php
I heard of him back in 2005. I even called the Marian library in Ohio to find more information about the Mary Gardens. Sadly, i did find out he passed on. I hope the business bears fruit from all of his hard work researching without the internet at that! He felt Mary Gardens would be what saved the world. He had that theme in some of his writings.
I figured you must have ! It seems that he helped create and inspired many other Americans to create Mary Gardens, it seems there is quite a few there. I endeavour to plant my own and find some other people’s gardens down here in the antipodes. May he Rest in Peace!
Btw, I am currently working on putting together a seed bundle (flora) of the plants with the Marian titles in recognition of the apostles in a tetramorph form. I had to wait for the Lupines to go to seed for this year’s crop. It’s been in the wings for a year. The lupine is St. Marks plant. I happen to have the book that you were referring to above. I’ll have to post the seed packet cover for you. It has the watchful lion on the cover.
Thanks, I am touched that you like this mission. I will take this as a ‘signal grace.’