As I looked, a stormwind came from the North, a huge cloud with flashing fire enveloped in brightness, from the midst of which (the midst of the fire) something gleamed like electrum…although it is often difficult to convince myself of it while lying in bed early in the morning; the reality is that it is the best time of the day to get out and experience “Peace, justice and the preservation of creation”…
R. Heaven and earth are filled with your glory, and this leads us to a universal communion.
Praise the LORD from the heavens; when our hearts are authentically open to universal communion, this sense of fraternity excludes nothing and no one.
R. Heaven and earth are filled with your glory, and this leads us to a universal communion.
Let the kings of the earth and all peoples, know that It follows that our indifference or cruelty towards fellow creatures of this world sooner or later affects the treatment we mete out to other human beings.
R. Heaven and earth are filled with your glory, and this leads us to a universal communion.
Young men too, and maidens, remember that We have only one heart, and the same wretchedness which leads us to mistreat an animal will not be long in showing itself in our relationships with other people. t follows that our indifference or cruelty towards fellow creatures of this world sooner or later affects the treatment we mete out to other human beings.
R. Heaven and earth are filled with your glory, and this leads us to a universal communion.
Be this his praise from all his faithful ones, that Every act of cruelty towards any creature is “contrary to human dignity”.
R. Heaven and earth are filled with your glory, and this leads us to a universal communion.
A person in New York City holds up a flag Oct. 24, 2018, to protest a policy by the then-Trump administration to define sex as an individual’s status as male or female based on traits identified at birth. (CNS photo/Brendan McDermid, Reuters)
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
God has called you through the Gospel
To possess the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ; how can we face the reality that Everything is related, and we human beings are united as brothers and sisters on a wonderful pilgrimage, woven together by the love God has for each of his creatures and which also unites us in fond affection with brother sun, sister moon, brother river and mother earth?
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
A man at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., lights a candle May 16, 2022, for the victims of a May 14 mass shooting that authorities said was motivated by racism. (CNS photo/Brendan McDermid, Reuters)
“But that we may not offend them, go to the sea, drop in a hook,
and take the first fish that comes up.”
MT 17: 27
Bishop John Walter Yanta, who ushered the Diocese of Amarillo into the Third Millennium, passed away Aug. 6 after years of dealing with a number of serious health ailments.
We can hardly consider ourselves to be fully loving if we disregard any aspect of reality: “Peace, justice and the preservation of creation are three absolutely interconnected themes, which cannot be separated and treated individually without once again falling into reductionism”.
CONFERENCE OF DOMINICAN BISHOPS, Pastoral Letter Sobre la relación del hombre con la naturaleza (21 January 1987), cited in paragraph 92 of Laudato Si,
The name Dominican in the Dominican Republic originates from Santo Domingo de Guzmán (Saint Dominic), the patron saint of astronomers, and founder of the Dominican Order; and whose Memorial we commemorate today.
