Cardinal Parolin’s brief but trenchant suggestions for a conference on climate change led me to reflect on the question of how we develop a “culture of care” in liturgy.
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Category: Environment and Ecology
Reclaiming Collective Repentance: What Can We Learn from Lost “Disaster Prayers”?
Through ritual actions and prayers of repentance in times of disaster, the church is invited to offer itself in service to those most afflicted by natural calamities and to denounce, through the act of repentance, the collective sin that exacerbates those afflictions.
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Creation, Day Seven: For God and Creation, a Day of Rest
What we need to live into, not least in this time of ecological emergency, is the reality of a larger, universal, planetary communion: by reason of our createdness, we are kin with everything that is created. Maybe keeping Sabbath is one way to begin to live into this vision.
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Creation, Day Six: Creativity, Hope, and Goodness
God chose not to stop with pterodactyls and turtles. God insisted on creating a mammal that not only had a mouth to feed, but a mouth that could talk back.
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Creation, Day Five: In the Name of Every Creature Under Heaven
What is happening is a sin against creation, not because we are passively threatening our own existence, but because creation has its own redemptive journey that intersects and is co-terminus with the human species.
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Creation, Day Four: The Rhythms of Life
Perhaps it is time to realize that we are truly made in the image of God the Organizer, and God the Rhythm-Giver.
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Creation, Day Three: Soil Underneath Our Fingernails
The Genesis verses that depict Day Three of Creation invite us to plumb unexpected sacramental depths.
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Creation, Day Two: Waters and the Sky
We rely upon that second day of Creation more than we admit.
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Creation, Day One: Let There Be Light
“The universe from the outset is saturated with light because it is saturated with divine activity, holding it in existence at every moment and leading us to knowledge of our Creator.”
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Liturgical Resources for Natural Disasters
Liturgical resources for praying in a time when wildfires are raging
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