As the visions during the night continued, I saw coming with the clouds of heaven One like a son of man…the rain we received a little over a week ago has certainly transfigured this pasture…
R. The Lord is king, the Most High over all the earth; discover His beauty through sacramental signs and the celebration of rest.
The LORD is king; let the earth rejoice; by way of the Sacraments which are a privileged way in which nature is taken up by God to become a means of mediating supernatural life
R. The Lord is king, the Most High over all the earth; discover His beauty through sacramental signs and the celebration of rest.
Clouds and darkness are round about him, yet through our worship of God, we are invited to embrace the world on a different plane.
R. The Lord is king, the Most High over all the earth; discover His beauty through sacramental signs and the celebration of rest.
The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, and water, oil, fire and colors are taken up in all their symbolic power and incorporated in our act of praise.
R. The Lord is king, the Most High over all the earth; discover His beauty through sacramental signs and the celebration of rest.
The heavens proclaim his justice, and the hand that blesses is an instrument of God’s love and a reflection of the closeness of Jesus Christ, who came to accompany us on the journey of life.
R. The Lord is king, the Most High over all the earth; discover His beauty through sacramental signs and the celebration of rest.
Because you, O LORD, are the Most High over all the earth, water poured over the body of a child in Baptism is a sign of new life.
The top five highest scoring dioceses and archdioceses in the report were: Diocese of Memphis, Tennessee, 95%; Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas, 92%; Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania, 83%; the Archdiocese of Atlanta, 80%; and the Diocese of Cheyenne, Wyoming, 80%.
The two lowest scoring dioceses were Crookston, Minnesota, and Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, which each scored zero. Thirty dioceses scored 7% and another 26 scored 10%.
Beloved:
We did not follow cleverly devised myths
when we made known to you…
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased;
listen to him. ..”Okay, but to do so I need to flee from this world and turn my back on nature!”
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
But he did not know what he was saying.
LK 9: 33
“Beauty, which in the (Christian) East is one of the best loved names expressing the divine harmony and the model of humanity transfigured, appears everywhere: in the shape of a church, in the sounds, in the colors, in the lights, in the scents”.
this quote as well as sections in italics above are from paragraph 235 of Laudato Si