Season of Creation

This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her. (2.)

Authentic human development has a moral character.  It presumes full respect for the human person, but it must also be concerned for the world around us and ‘take into account the nature of each being and of its mutual connection in an ordered system’”. (5.)

The misuse of creation beings when we no longer recognize any higher instance than ourselves, when we see nothing else but ourselves.”  (6.)

For the human beings to contaminate the earth’s waters, its land, its air, and its life – these are sins.” (8.)

As Christians, we are called ‘to accept the world as a sacrament of communion, as a way of sharing with God and our neighbors on a global scene.’ (9.)

I believe that Saint Francis is the example par excellence of care for the vulnerable and of an integral ecology lived our joyfully and authentically. (10.)

If we feel intimately united with all that exists, then sobriety and care will well up spontaneously. (11.)

Saint Francis, faithful to Scripture, invites us to see nature as a magnificent book in which God speaks to us and grants us a glimpse of his infinite beauty and goodness.” (12.)

Rather than a problem to be solved, the world is a joyful mystery to be contemplated with gladness and praise. (12.)

Humanity has the ability to work together in building our common home. (13.)  All of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creation. (14.)

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. (21.) These problems are closely inked to a throwaway culture which affects the excluded just as it quickly reduces things to rubbish. (22.)

The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all. (23.)

The great majority (of plant and animal species) become extinct for reasons related to human activity.  Because of us, thousands of species will no longer give glory to God by their very existence, nor convey their message to us. (33.)

…a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. (49.)  Environmental deterioration and human and ethical degradation are closely linked. (56.)

Human life is grounded in three fundamental and closely intertwined relationships: with God, with our neighbor and with the earth itself. (66.)

In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the word “creation” has a broader meaning than “nature,” for it has to do with God’s loving plan in which every creature has its own value and significance….Creation can only be understood as a gift from the outstretched hand of the Father of all, and as a reality illuminated by the love which calls us together into universal communion. (76.) Creation is the order of love.  God’s love is the fundamental moving force in all created things.” (77.)

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