See, days are coming—oracle of the LORD—when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah…Dad walked untold miles behind this plow, tilling the soil for decades of gardens. After his last tilling he hung it on this fence, where it remains to this day…today I have a new covenant with the soil, “no till“…
R. Create a clean heart in me, O God, one that recognizes the need to protect employment
Cast me not out from you presence, for taking any approach to an integral ecology that excludes human beings and takes no account of the value of labor.
R. Create a clean heart in me, O God, one that recognizes the need to protect employment
Give me back the joy of your salvation, as I recognize that laborers and craftsmen thus “maintain the fabric of the world”
R. Create a clean heart in me, O God, one that recognizes the need to protect employment
I will teach transgressors your ways, of developing the created world in a prudent way; which is the best way of caring for it, as this means that we ourselves become the instrument used by God to bring out the potential which he himself inscribed in things: “The Lord created medicines out of the earth, and a sensible man will not despise them”
R. Create a clean heart in me, O God, one that recognizes the need to protect employment
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church,
and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it; for just as Saint Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae aroused much opposition over fifty years ago, so is Pope Francis’s Laudato Si today; making the salient doctrines of both encyclicals authoritative and controversial but prophetic.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Relatives and friends carry the coffin containing the body of Pascual Melvin Guachiac, 13, during his funeral in the small village of Tzucubal in Nahuala, Guatemala, July 16, 2022 The teen died June 27 when he suffocated while being smuggled in a semitrailer in San Antonio. He was one of 53 migrants found dead in the truck’s cargo area. (CNS photo/Sandra Sebastian, Reuters)
“Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me.
You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”
MT 16: 23
According to the biblical account of creation, God placed man and woman in the garden he had created (cf. Gen 2:15) not only to preserve it (“keep”) but also to make it fruitful (“till”).
this quote as well as sections in italics above are from paragraph 124 of Laudato Si
