Posted on 08/27/2022 6:38:02 PM PDT by marshmallow
The season starts Sept. 1 with the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation and closes with the feast of St. Francis of Assisi on Oct. 4
Sister Kathleen Storms hopes a calendar of prayers and suggestions for action during the upcoming worldwide Season of Creation will help people "understand that simple options can make an important difference in our care for creation."
Meatless Mondays and shopping at farmer's markets are among actions proposed by the Care for Creation Team of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to observe the season.
Sister Kathleen, a School Sister of Notre Dame, is a member of the team who wrote the calendar.
She said she studied resources on Catholic social teaching and ecology provided through the Catholic Climate Covenant, which was formed in 2006 by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops with partners including Catholic Relief Services, Catholic Charities USA and St. Paul-based Catholic Rural Life. She worked on the calendar for about three weeks.
"My best creative time is in the morning," said Sister Kathleen, whose ministry since the 1990s has centered on environmental education. "It was a very prayerful experience," she told The Catholic Spirit, the archdiocesan newspaper.
The internationally recognized Season of Creation was proclaimed in 1989 for Eastern Orthodox Christians by the late Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I of Constantinople.
In 2015, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to welcome the season, the same year the pope wrote his encyclical on faith and the environment, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home."
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But when there are calls to not eat meat, it reminds me of the description of the last days.
1 Timothy 4
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
So let's take care of the earth, grow and eat meet, and be thankful.
Day of creation brought to you by your Catholic Church. Bring your children and enjoy reassignment surgery, pedophiles, and open honest discussions on open borders and how to be accepted by terrorist. Vote democrats into office.
“Meatless Mondays”? Wasn’t that FDR’s idea during WWII? Why not “meatless Fridays” like in the past?
Preach it, brother!!!!
Very well said.
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