Care for Creation
December 31, 2023
A New Year’s Resolution to Care for Creation
“We show our respect for the Creator by our stewardship of creation.”
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
What will you do in the New Year to demonstrate your care for creation, especially for the blameless who are suffering from the effects of degradation now? What will you do to live out your gratitude for God’s great gift?
December 31, 2023
A New Year’s Resolution to Care for Creation
“We show our respect for the Creator by our stewardship of creation.”
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
- Laudato Si’, is a text of landmark significance in Catholic Social Teaching, in it Pope Francis challenges us to rethink our relationship with nature and responsibility for neighbors.
- Pope Francis changes the environmental dialogue into a language of faith. All creatures, human and otherwise, are a precious gift from God to be reverenced by all.
- The Holy Father invites us to become aware and reflect deeply on the unsustainable environmental degradation around us and its consequences.
- Pope Francis extends an “urgent challenge to protect our common home…to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development together, for we know that things can change.” (LS 13)
- The Pope asks us to examine our lifestyles through sound ecological virtues, strive for greater simplicity and focus less on material things.
What will you do in the New Year to demonstrate your care for creation, especially for the blameless who are suffering from the effects of degradation now? What will you do to live out your gratitude for God’s great gift?