“The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change… Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home… All of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creation, each according to his or her own culture, experience, involvements and talents.” [Laudato Si’, 13,14]
“In the meantime, 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]
Challenge: Maintain hope for the future of life on our planet. Find ways of turning that hope into positive action.
Example Action: Patna SCNs are exploring the goal of ecological spirituality through the development of their own ecological spirituality practices.