Hilfield’s solar installation has now been generating for a couple of months, in the period when the days are shortest.
This pictures shows the west roof of Francis House, with the south roof of Leo House in the background, giving a spread of power throughout the day. Note how the Francis House panels now replace an earlier piece of technology, the 2 brick chimneys built in 1888 and removed in c. 2011.
The graph shows daily power being produced since the beginning on 8th December on these roofs.
This picture shows panels on the much flatter chip store roof, to power the boiler house and workshops.
This timely book brings together the stories of Saint Francis – his rejection of wealth, caring for lepers, befriending animals and living simply, his poetry and hymnody in praise of creation that is still sung today – and the influential writings and examples of inspiring Franciscans who have followed him, such as Clare, Bonaventure, Duns Scotus and Angela of Foligno, drawing them into conversation with contemporary concerns for our planet.
It gathers 800 years of accumulated wisdom and practical examples of how Franciscans have found ways to live at home and at peace with creation. It explores that long tradition and experience to ask what lessons can be drawn for today to challenge and enable readers to re-visit their own relationship with creation.
Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
ISBN: 9781786223005
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 30/01/2021
After Laudato Si, this is the best Franciscan reflection on the crisis of our planet that I have read, and I very much hope many others will read it, take it to heart and join the growing movement of those who are trying to listen, before it is too late, to the voice of our suffering Sister Mother Earth.
Sr Frances Teresa Downing osc
Learning to see differently is the beginning of a new social order, a new planetary community, where love of God, love of neighbor and love of all creatures creates a new house, a new church, built on the foundation of a new heart. This wonderful new book is a helpful guide toward creating a new world.
Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF
Connelly Chair in Theology, Villanova University
Copies are available from the Hilfield Friary bookshop:
£16.99 plus £2 P&P (UK postage)
