"Heavenly Father, You gave Your servant Francis great love for each of Your creatures. Teach us to see Your design in all of creation. We ask this in Jesus Name. Amen. "

St Francis

..A long, long, time ago I watched my friend as he studied in the Franciscan Order in Loretto Seminary...I then asked St. Francis to teach me all about God's Creatures so that they can teach me about God's love......This morning as I sat a top my Morgan horse mare, looking down in the valley at our house below this is what I saw:

...A little white house with a little barn and sheep shed; there were sheep in our meadow, horses in our stalls, and many other of God's (rescued) creatures in our warm barn...to the North, to the South, to the East and to the West...in the distances were Amish farm steads......Our homestead was surrounded by the plain people...andall of God's creatures..and I was living in a town called Churchtown....now I felt what it was like to be rescued........I fingered the rosary beads in my pocket...asked my mare to cantor down the hill...and she galloped me home...to my loving wife and our world filled with all of God's loving creatures...

"...The new movements, instead are oriented, before all else, toward the renewal of the individual....he himself must be renewed in Christ....these movements are made up for the most part of lay people who are married and have professions..."

Crossing the Threshold of Hope Page 168 John Paul II, soon to be St. John Paul the Great.

The Pope's plane is named Shepherd One. Our home and web site are named Shepherd Too in His Honor.