The Genesis verses that depict Day Three of Creation invite us to plumb unexpected sacramental depths.
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Category: Environment and Ecology
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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Prayers of Intercession for the Season of Creation
“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last 200 years.” How, therefore, shall we pray?
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Season of Creation: What Are You Doing to Celebrate? [updated]
Our communities may awaken to a deeper appreciation of the gift of creation and the call to care for our common home, precisely by “praying our way” into this awareness.
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Entering the Season of Creation 2019 Early, as Fires Ravage the Amazon
The Season of Creation begins September 1. The issue is important every day.
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Young Scholars Bring New Questions and Multiple Disciplines to Bear on Sacramental Theology
Drone warfare, consumer culture, guilt-driven obedience, faith amidst a pluralistic world are among topics six fresh voices address in a growing collection of articles on sacramental-liturgical theology.
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“All You Have Created Rightly Gives You Praise” – and Today, Laments and Groans
…may one not have to acknowledge that the human-made acceleration of species extinction…is…also a decimation of a communion of worshippers that has been sounding God’s praises since long before humans joined in?
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September 1st, Day of Prayer for Creation
What does sacramental liturgy have to say about the Christian mandate to care for creation?
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March 22: World Water Day
In honor of World Water Day – marked inter alia by the Vatican – here is a meditative prayer on water that I wrote in preparation for the baptism of my son.
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