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“Let Justice and Peace Flow” -- Praise God in All Things

9/17/2023

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September 17, 2023
Season of Creation – September 1 – October 4
“Let Justice and Peace Flow” -- Praise God in All Things

​As we have recently experienced during our parish 40 Hours devotion, Eucharistic Adoration is one of the most meaningful ways we give thanks as Christians.  Eucharist means “thanksgiving” and through the sacrament of the Eucharist “the whole cosmos gives thanks to God” (LS 236).
In Laudato Si’ Pope Francis draws the integral connection between the physical and spiritual aspects of being, he asserts that “The Lord, in the culmination of the mystery of the Incarnation, chose to reach our intimate depths through a fragment of matter….he comes that we might find him in this world of ours.” (LS 236)
Pope Francis goes on to say that by using the products of creation shaped by the hands of people, the “Eucharist joins heaven and earth, it embraces and penetrates all creation” and is “a source of light and motivation for our concerns for the environment, directing us to be stewards of all creation.” (LS 236)
During the Season of Creation, as we continue our focus on Eucharist, let us observe the tradition of rest on Sunday, spending time in contemplation and opening ourselves to the enduring connections among all beings. Pope Francis reminds us that the purpose of observing the Sabbath is “so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your maidservant, and the stranger may be refreshed” (Ex 23:12). “Rest opens our eyes to the larger picture and gives us renewed sensitivity to the rights of others. And so, the day of rest, centered on the Eucharist, sheds its light on the whole week, and motivates us to greater concern for nature and the poor.” (LS 237)
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