Good morning. Hope all is well.
Yesterday I watched a news article on TV about the melting of the glaciers in Switzerland, as well as in other parts of the world. The scientists tell us that this is the result of global warming.
Besides the water runoff, and the sea level rising, we those near these glaciers are subject to landslides and other destructive events.
Some would say that this “warming” is just part of a cycle in the weather pattern. Well, they may think this to be true, but scientists are telling a very different story.
The effect of our carbine admissions is causing the world to become warmer, and the results is the melting of the polar caps and the glaciers.
St. Francis of Assisi, in “Canticle of Creation”, called the earth our Mother when he said, “Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and produces fruits with colored flowers and herbs.”
Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter “Laudato Si” (Praise be to you.) states the following, “This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on by our irresponsible use and abuse of the good with which God has endowed her. . . . This is why the earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor; she ‘groans in travail’ (Rom 8:22). We have forgotten that we ourselves are dust or the earth (cf. Gen 2:7); our very bodies are made up of her elements, we breathe her air and we receive life and refreshment from her waters.”
There is an old saying, of which the origin is questionable, says “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”
What kind of earth do we wish to pass on to those who will come after us? Will there be an earth to pass on? Each of us play a part in this event. We are the ones, the only ones, how will be able to give answer to this question. Let us pray that we make the correct answer.
Peace and All Good,
Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the
Bros and Srs. of the
Franciscan House of Prayer.
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