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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
A Christian Earth-Conscious Spirituality
All the delegates have gone home from the COP21 Climate Summit in Paris. And our Earth and all her inhabitants await our action.
I am interested in how such a [Christian] spirituality can motivate us to a more passionate concern for the protection of our world.
– Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ 216
God presented us with planet earth in all its
pristine beauty. Justice and love demand that
we refrain from causing it harm. Just as we
care for a loved one and refrain from causing
pain, so it is that to desecrate God’s gift to us
paints a picture of indifference and unconcern.
With indifference and neglect, earth will no longer
resemble the pristine gift we have been given.
As Christians, we are called to love all
that is good and beautiful, and by definition,
that must include our earth. Christian values
demand that we nurture and respect this gift,
freely given to us by a loving Creator.
We are blest indeed!
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