LAUDATO SI ! ( Praise be! )
We welcome September. We give praise and thanks to God for creation and we reflect on how better to care for our common home.
Thanks is not an easy word for some people to say. For us it translates as eucharist so it should be easy. Sadly we are often distracted, looking at our problems and discontents first, instead of focussing on the beauty God has given us in God’s creation and saying thanks.
At this time every year it’s good to reflect on creation, to thank God for all of it and to play our part collectively and individually to care for all that we have been given. We also need to recommit to work together to build something better for the future. We need to make an effort to challenge the waste and devastation caused by our sometimes “ throw away culture” which is cluttering up this little corner of the planet.
Pope Francis is challenging me and you every day to be more grateful, more caring and more active in caring for our common home. By building positive relationships and engaging in selfless acts of service we can make the difference in a sometimes chaotic world. God inspires us to work with generosity and tenderness to protect the world which God has entrusted to us. For us as Christians that means every moment becomes a eucharistic moment, a moment of thanks and gratitude. Impossible? Only if we keep looking at the negatives - the prejudices, grudges, rivalries, envy and our superfluous material goods, and never see the traces of God’s Spirit right in front of us and all around us. Open our eyes Lord, to the wonders of creation.
Praise be to God. LAUDATO SI ! Lets welcome September together as a parish community committed to living out what we preach.
We welcome September. We give praise and thanks to God for creation and we reflect on how better to care for our common home.
Thanks is not an easy word for some people to say. For us it translates as eucharist so it should be easy. Sadly we are often distracted, looking at our problems and discontents first, instead of focussing on the beauty God has given us in God’s creation and saying thanks.
At this time every year it’s good to reflect on creation, to thank God for all of it and to play our part collectively and individually to care for all that we have been given. We also need to recommit to work together to build something better for the future. We need to make an effort to challenge the waste and devastation caused by our sometimes “ throw away culture” which is cluttering up this little corner of the planet.
Pope Francis is challenging me and you every day to be more grateful, more caring and more active in caring for our common home. By building positive relationships and engaging in selfless acts of service we can make the difference in a sometimes chaotic world. God inspires us to work with generosity and tenderness to protect the world which God has entrusted to us. For us as Christians that means every moment becomes a eucharistic moment, a moment of thanks and gratitude. Impossible? Only if we keep looking at the negatives - the prejudices, grudges, rivalries, envy and our superfluous material goods, and never see the traces of God’s Spirit right in front of us and all around us. Open our eyes Lord, to the wonders of creation.
Praise be to God. LAUDATO SI ! Lets welcome September together as a parish community committed to living out what we preach.