Genesis 1:20-23
And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.” So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
“LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”.
Laudato si: Chapter five
Pope Francis begins now to name desired actions for change which will help us to ‘escape the spiral of self-destruction which currently engulfs us.’ (LS, 163) We begin this change by strengthening our ‘conviction that we are one single human family’ (LS, 52) ‘brothers and sisters united on a wonderful pilgrimage.’ (LS, 92) His call while to every individual is also strongly focussed on the need for a global consensus to confront the deeper problems, which cannot be resolved by unilateral actions on the part of individual countries.” (LS, 164)
“LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”.
Genesis 1:24-31
And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wold animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them: male and female he created them.
God blessed them, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” God said, “See I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
“LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”.
Laudato si: chapter six
Pope Francis calls us to conversion of heart and mind that we cultivate a shared identity, a sense of solidarity with all our brothers and sisters especially the poor who suffer the most from effects of climate change while contributing the least to the crisis. God has entrusted to our care a common home and we need to develop new convictions, attitudes and forms of life as we set out on a long path of renewal. (cf. LS, 202) He calls us to stop, to give thanks to God for the gift of creation, ‘accepting each moment as a gift from God to be lived to the full.’ (LS, 226)
“LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”.
Genesis 2:1-3
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.
“LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”.
Laudato si: Conclusion
We celebrate all of God’s creation as we gather together as the Body of Christ to celebrate Eucharist – Pope Francis reminds us: ‘it is in the Eucharist that all that has been created finds its greatest exaltation. Joined to the incarnate Son, present in the Eucharist, the whole cosmos gives thanks to God. The Eucharist is also a source of light and motivation for our concerns for the environment, directing us all to be stewards of all creation.’ (LS, 236)
“LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”.