Fr Michael prays with us from the garden of the Oblate community home in Darndale-Belcamp parish in Dublin's northside. Quoting from St Columbanus, Michael says: "If you want to know the Creator, get to know creation." In the wake of Pope Francis' second encyclical, "Laudato si'" Michael reminds us of how nature comes together in the flowers and the plants in this, the season of growing and flowering. May we all grow and flower as God wants.