Addressed to the Whole World
Laudato Si’ is addressed to everyone in the entire world, not just Catholics, and not just Christians. The Pope sees that a mistaken understanding of nature, and of our role in nature, causes problems for everyone. He sees that we have a strongly instrumentalized vision of nature. We regard it, in essence, as a kind of accident demanding technological mastery and manipulation for our own self-centered purposes.
LAUDATO SI CONCERNS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE ON PLANET EARTH.
Laudato SI is;
- Calling for us to make the “Choice to Change for the better”
- It starts with me,
- My family
- My Community
- My Parish
- My Country
- My World
“FOR THE WORLD TO CHANGE, IT BEGINS WITH ME MAKING THOSE CHANGES EVERYDAY. FOR CHANGE CANNOT COME UNTIL I AM THE CHANGE.”
“Our Families must be the Factory of Change.”
Laudato Si is a continuous process of growing, learning and taking action that must involve our “Children” for they will take the change into the future.
Laudato SI Is about Creation.
- Outlining the Ecological problem, “What Is Happening to Our Common Home”,
- “The Gospel of Creation”. – Pope Francis argues that even though the problem is of concern to all, -
- Christianity has something special to offer in its understanding that nature is a Tremendous gift of a personal Creator, and that God has set man over this gift of nature to conserve and develop it for the purposes God has ordained.
If we begin again to see ourselves in relationship to God can we begin again to understand this gift of nature, its meaning, the gratitude it evokes, and the limits and ends it imposes on our stewardship.
Butterfly and Golden Sunset at Columban Mission Office, Nasese, Fiji.
Vinaka – T.Naikasowalu – JPIC Fiji.
