Down to Earth

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Celebrating a Blessed Life on the Land

by Curt Arens

Curt Arens is a farmer. He works the Arens family farm along Bow Creek in Crofton, Nebraska, near the Nebraska-South Dakota border. The farm has been in the Arens family since 1916, when his grandparents, John and Caroline Arens, first moved onto it and began farming.

Curt Arens is also a Catholic. He was baptized at St. Rose Catholic Church in Crofton, where he attended the Catholic school, received his first communion and confirmation and served as an altar boy. As an adult, he is active layperson in the parish and is sending his own three children to the school.

In Down to Earth, Arens traces his own development as both a farmer and a Catholic from his student years at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, to his taking on the responsibility of the family farm after graduation, to his marriage to his wife, Donna, and the births of their three children. He reflects on his experience with the Cursillo movement, the changes in the Church brought about by Vatican II, and the spirituality of rural living, as well as the challenges found in contemporary family farming.

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