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Caring for His kingdom

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Post date November 25, 2018

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

Today, the last Sunday of the liturgical year, we celebrate the Solemnity of Christ, the King of the Universe. Each time we say the “Our Father”, we pray “Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done…”

It is you and I, His instruments here on earth, who have to act as servant-leaders to ensure that His Kingdom of justice, peace, truth, love and forgiveness become a reality. We have our mandate in Luke 4: 18–19. We are the ones He has sent to “bring the good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives and to the blind new sight, to set the downtrodden free, to proclaim the Lord’s year of favour.”

The downtrodden are all around us. Do we have eyes to see and ears to hear their cries?

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Dare to care for Creation

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Post date October 21, 2018

“In today’s world, hunger, violence and poverty cannot be understood apart from the changes and degradation affecting the environment.” Pope Francis.

During this Justice, Peace and Community Week (October 20–27), let’s dare to truly care for one of God’s greatest gifts to us: Creation. Our theme of this year is linked to Pope Francis’ declaration on September 1, 2016 of Caring for our Common Home as the 8th Work of Mercy—to be added to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

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Observing Justice, Peace and Community Week

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Post date October 14, 2018

The archdiocesan observance of ‘Justice, Peace and Community Week’ on the theme: Caring for Creation: 8th Work of Mercy, commences on Saturday, October 20, and ends on Saturday 27. See Calendar of Events

In his message for World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation in 2016, entitled ‘Show mercy to our common home’, Pope Francis declared ‘Caring for Creation’ as the 8th Work of Mercy. Here are extracts from his message:

Tags environment, Justice Peace and Community Week (JPCW).

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Caring for Creation

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Post date August 19, 2018

“The ecological crisis is also a summons to profound interior conversion…Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience. (n 217, Laudato Si, On Care for our Common Home).

If we are committed to ecological conversion/healing our wounded creation, we must demonstrate that, as Pope Francis said, the effects of our encounter with Christ become evident in our relationship with the world around us.

Tags environment, Laudato Si

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Let’s save our swamps

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Post date July 22, 2018

“In some coastal areas the disappearance of ecosystems sustained by mangrove swamps is a source of serious concern.” (Laudato Si, Pope Francis)

On Thursday, July 26, the world will mark International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem. Mangroves, these beautiful, resilient, evergreen trees, referred to as the roots of the sea, are nature’s gift to us.

Tags environment, swamps