Tag: Stewardship

Care for Creation • Sun.02.15.26

Creation is not just scenery. When we notice it as a gift, care becomes natural instead of forced.

Nature is easy to ignore. A tree is just a tree. Grass is just grass.

But when we pause, we begin to notice something deeper. Everything around us carries the touch of the same Creator who made us.

Creation is not random background. It is shared belonging.

Today, we treat the world with care. We slow down. We protect what we can. We remember that nothing made by God is ordinary.

Based on reflections shared at the Chiara Lubich Center, Loppiano, 27 November 1975.

✝️ Prayer for Reverence

God, open our eyes to see Your presence in creation. Teach us to treat the world gently and responsibly. Help us care for what You have entrusted to us. Amen.

A prayer a day, keeps the soul from drifting away

⌨ ᴛʸᵖⁱⁿᵍ ᴏᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʙˡᵘᵉ ᵈᵃʳᵉᵐ ᵐᵘˢⁱᶜ ᵇˡᵒᵍ

Look Up in the Sky • Darem Placer

Passaparola 082625

Creation is God’s gift, entrusted to us with care. Chiara encourages us to begin with small acts of ecological responsibility that build a conscience for global change.

Pangalagaan ang Kapaligiran

Nauunawaan ng ating mga kabataan at sinimulan na nila ang iba’t ibang inisyatiba na nagpapahayag ng personal at kolektibong kamalayang ekolohikal sa maraming aspeto. Nagsisimula sa maliliit na lokal na suliranin nabubuo ang isang moral na konsensiya na kayang harapin ang mga suliranin sa pandaigdigang saklaw. Sa huli, ang ekolohiya ay isang hamon na mahaharap lamang sa pamamagitan ng pagbabago ng kaisipan at paghubog ng mga budhi.

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Take Care of the Environment

Our young people have understood and have already undertaken various initiatives which express a personal and collective ecological awareness under many aspects. It is by beginning with the small local problems that a moral conscience is formed capable of facing problems on a worldwide scale. In the final analysis, ecology represents a challenge which can be met only by changing mentalities and forming consciences.

Chiara Lubich

On Ecology • Rocca di Papa, 8 March 1990