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Last Saturday our Care of Creation Team in the Parish organized an interesting and informative workshop on Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato Si’ to help the people of God to ACT for ‘care for our common home’. (Fr Willem Klaver mhm) His introductory words: On this day that Pope Francis is signing his new encyclical in Assisi…
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A global Ignatian prayer vigil. It took place on the youtube channel of Jesuit Curia on September 25 at three different moments at 8 PM in Manila, 8 PM in Rome and 8.00 PM in New York in order to ensure greater outreach and to connect everyone in the world. There have been more than…
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In Fratelli tutti, the very liberal-sounding idea of universal fraternity is put into dialogue with the gospel message which points so strikingly in the direction of the brother- and sisterhood of every human being. A more triumphalistic pontiff would have insisted that the gospel was the ultimate source of all that is good in the Enlightenment,…
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The season of creation that was introduced by Pope Francis since 2016, came immediately a year after the publication of Laudato Si on the Care for our Common Home. The special season occurs within the ordinary time of the Church’ liturgical calendar to run from the 1st of September to the 4th of October which…
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GOD’S CREATION Nature means the flowersThe plants and the treesThe fish and the animalsIncluding ants at their ease. Creation is differentIt is all inclusiveIt comprises of treesAnd plants and animals of every kindAnd last of all arrived humankind. We think we are firstWhen in fact we were lastWe must forget that notionForget the past. What…
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Fr Oniz Kihokolo MHM is Parish Priest for St. Alphonsus’ Parish, Julau. Originally from Uganda, the missionary has created a demonstration garden, where he grows pineapples, sweet potatoes, pawpaws, tomatoes and passion fruit. He also rears rabbits and chickens and uses their natural waste for organic pesticide and fertil Fr Oniz shared: “A healthy environment…
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When I worked in Kenya with refugees in the early 1990s, there was a Kiswahili saying I heard often, “Wapiganapo tembo nyasi huumia,” which means, “When the elephants fight, the grass suffers.” Usually this is a way of saying that when big powers (nations, states, leaders) fight or go to war, it is the poor…
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The song ” Africa Vuka” is meant for the Season of creation also in line with Global Climate Strike. Baba Miti is the author of the song and he is the Waka waka Band founder-leader. The Band is based at Nairobi ,formed by Franciscans Youths, students at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa. “Vuka” means…
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It is difficult to match the irresistible Jerusalema of Master KG, but the Waka Waka Band from Kenya delivere a catchy anthem for the anniversary year of the encyclical of the same name: Laudato Si ‘Celebration Song. Pope Francis’s call for an environmental, social and economic turnaround cannot be confined to words. Waka waka means…
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‘Sign the Laudato Si Pledge, then live it’. That was the final message from Cardinal Luis Tagle of Manila, on film at the end of the Global Catholic Climate Movement’s four-hour-long Season of Creation Laudato Si’ virtual interactive Retreat on Saturday 12 September 2020. “To sense each creature singing the hymn of existence is to…
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Living as a creature means knowing you are dependent on a Creator. Which is not obvious if you have been taught all along that you are your own creator. We used to talk about someone being a “self-made millionaire”; these days we are told we can be entirely self-made, reinventing ourselves from scratch. But creatures…
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