When I summon him, he shall approach me;
how else should one take the deadly risk
of approaching me? …Indy has grown quite comfortable approaching me…
R. (17) The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory.
The nations shall revere your name, O LORD, when we allow St. Francis to help us see that an integral ecology calls for openness to categories which transcend the language of mathematics and biology, and take us to the heart of what it is to be human.
R. (17) The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory.
Let this be written for the generation to come, that just as happens when we fall in love with someone, whenever St. Francis would gaze at the sun, the moon or the smallest of animals, he burst into song, drawing all other creatures into his praise.
R. (17) The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory.
The children of your servants shall abide, just as St. Francis communed with all creation, even preaching to the flowers, inviting them “to praise the Lord, just as if they were endowed with reason”.
R. (17) The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
A lot of times I approach the Son of God as a consumer, unable to set limits on my immediate needs for rain, instead of with awe and wonder, repenting of my sins against our common home which have caused the drought.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Peter said to him in reply, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.”
MT 14: 28
If we approach nature and the environment without this openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and beauty in our relationship with the world, our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters, unable to set limits on their immediate needs.
this quote as well as sections in italics above are from paragraph 11 of Laudato Si