“On this 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical, Laudato Si’, we write to you to encourage your profound hope despite challenging times. Pope Francis’ ministry was marked by a closeness to young people. He often celebrated the ways that young people like you help the world to remove the scales from our eyes, and we thank you for your witness. We, too, want to accompany you as your faith enkindles a desire to respond to the “cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” (Laudato Si’, no. 49).”
USCB Letter to Young People on the 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si
“Liberation from the dominant technocratic paradigm does in fact happen sometimes, for example when cooperatives of small producers adopt less polluting means of production, and opt for a non-consumerist style of life, recreation and community.”
Laudato Si 112
“Whether believers or not, we are agreed today that the earth is essentially a shared inheritance, whose fruits are meant to benefit everyone… Hence every ecological approach needs to incorporate a social perspective which takes into account the fundamental rights of the poor and the underprivileged.
The subordination of private property to the universal destination of goods, and thus the right of everyone to their use, is a golden rule of social conduct and “the first principle of the whole ethical and social order.”
Laudato Si 93
“Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, everything in the universe, cry out: “To the one who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor, glory and might, forever and ever.”
Rev5: 13
“What an expansive sense of the loving Creator would result if at the start of every gathering for Christian prayer or liturgy the people called upon the ongoing praise of all creation which we humans now join…. We humans do not pray alone but form a chorus with a world of singers sharing the journey of life together.”
“Come Have Breakfast” Elizabeth Johnson
“We come together to take charge of this home which has been entrusted to us, knowing that all the good which exists here will be taken up into the heavenly feast. In union with all creatures, we journey through this land seeking God, for if the world has a beginning and if it has been created, we must enquire who gave it this beginning and who was its Creator.
Let us sing as we go! May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope!”
Laudato Si 244
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