The Season of Creation is a global ecumenical celebration of prayer and action to protect our common home, starting each year on 1 September and finishing on the feast of St Francis, 4 October.
Sunday 2nd October week 27
This Sunday we stress the importance of prayer and how it is important to constantly repeat the word of God, “be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage – with great patience and careful instruction” (2 Timothy 4:2). The Pope assumed the name Francis, as the Saint that most inspired him. Tuesday is the feast of St Francis of Assisi and let us remind ourselves why the Pope chose him.
Laudato Si’ Care for our common home Para 10 ……. I believe that St Francis is the example par excellence of care for the vulnerable and of an integral ecology lived out joyfully and authentically. He is the patron saint of all who study and work in the area of ecology, and he is also much loved by non-Christians. He was particularly concerned with God’s creation and for the poor and outcast. He loved, and was deeply loved for this joy, his generous self-giving, his openheartedness. He was a mystic and a pilgrim who lived in simplicity and in wonderful harmony with God, with others, with nature and with himself. He shows us just how inseparable the bond between concern for nature, justice for the poor, commitment to society, and interior peace is.
Para 11 Francis helps us to see that an integral ecology calls for openness to categories which transcend the language of mathematics and biology, and take us to the heart of what it is to be human ……. The poverty and austerity of Saint Francis were no mere veneer of asceticism, but something much more radical: a refusal to turn reality into an object simply to be used and controlled.
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