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Article: Glenairley Centre for earth and spirit opens in British Columbia.
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- Catholic New Times
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- February 29, 2004
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"Long before' the Sisters of St. Ann (SSA) had heard of creation spirituality or knew the names of Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, Diarmuid O'Murchu, those serving in leadership in the late 1950s, early 1960s recognized the potential healing value of the natural environment." So writes Sheila Moss of the Sisters of Saint Anne. The nuns purchased a piece of property in the wilds of East Sooke, just west of Victoria on Vancouver Island a place which would, in the contemporary words of the Earth Charter provide "a natural and social environment supportive of human dignity, bodily health and spiritual well-being."
Glenairley became for the Sisters a place of rest, ...