Opening prayer of the Season of Creation: “Looking at our common home together”

Pope Francis wrote: "We are especially happy that the Season of Creativity is becoming a truly ecumenical initiative. Let us continue to grow in the awareness that we all live in a common home as members of a single family."

In harmony with the entire universal church entering the Season of Creation celebrated annually from September 1 to October 4, 2021, at 20:00 on Wednesday September 1, 2021, Caritas Dalat celebrated Opening prayer time of the Season of Creation with the theme: “Let's look at our common home ours”. The program includes three parts: Introduction to Creative Season, Bridge prayer, Introduction to the Laudato Si  action platform of the universal church. It's time to pray live stream via Youtube and Caritas Dalat Fanpage.

 

Before entering the prayer time, Ms. Maria Goretti Dinh Thi Hong Phuc, Deputy Director of Caritas Dalat, introduced the Season of Creation with its history, meaning, and theme for 2021. As Pope Francis said: "The SEASON of CREATION celebrated every year is an ecumenical initiative of the global Christian Family participating in renewing faith in Creator God, while praying and working to care for the common home that is the earth." Theme of A Home for All - renews God's family, with the symbol of Abraham's Cabin - a home for all.Oikos, the common home for all beings, is now in danger because of greed, exploitation, disrespect, disconnection and systematic degradation, the entire creation is crying out. From those sentiments, Ms. Hong Phuc invited the Community to join Caritas Dalat in practicing creative living with specific actions: choosing ecological food with more plants, cleanly produced and workers are respected for their dignity, living friendly with the natural environment, using domestic products, limiting plastic bags, single-use plastic water bottles,...

Going to the heart of prayer time, Father Gioan Bosco Hoang Van It was the General Representative - Director of Caritas GP Dalat who directed the community to work Creation process in the book of Genesis (Genesis 2.8-9.15): “The story of creation gives give us a panoramic view of the world. The Bible says, “from the beginning,” God wanted humans to cooperate in preserving and protecting the environment nature… The Earth is entrusted to us as a wonderful gift and inheritance great, that each of us shares the responsibility of preserving and protecting, until when, as St. Paul writes in Eph.1,10, “the end” of all things in heaven and on earth will be restored in Christ.” (general message 2017)

Six years ago, on August 6, 2015, Pope Francis decided to establish the "World Day of Prayer for the Care of Nature". This day is set to be celebrated on September 1 every year. This will be an opportunity to reaffirm the Christian calling to steward the nature that God has created, to show gratitude for the gifts God has given and entrusted to our care, to pray for the protection of the environment and to ask for forgiveness for the sin of destroying the environment.

House In our community there is much suffering of the poor and destruction destruction of the environment. Global warming continues, partly because of activity of humans. Recent years have recorded record climate warming phenomena This has become more serious, causing droughts, floods, forest fires, and other disasters Trying too hard about the weather. Climate change events also contribute to the situation world crisis. The world's poor are the ones suffering most affected by this condition.

To the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor and pure In the context of the Covid 19 epidemic, Father Gioan Bosco invites the community to live a season of creativity together with the diocese, with a few practical suggestions: Pray for quick epidemics through, healthy people, healthy planet; Refresh the correlation of us with God and with all “creation”; Living the spirit of Laudato Si “Take care of the common home and listen to the cry of the earth and the cry of poor people” (LS 49); Attend 2 online prayer sessions approved by the Office Caritas Dalat takes place at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 and at 8:00 p.m. on Monday, September 1, 2021. October 4, 2021

At the end of the sharing, Father John Bosco borrowed the Pope's words during the reception General Audience every Wednesday, September 16, 2020 when he meditated on the passage from the Book of Genesis: “Contemplation of nature and care: these are two attitudes that show the way repair and balance our human relationship with nature. Each we can and must become a “custodian of the common home”, yes the ability to praise God for His creatures, to contemplate and protect them”.

The prayer time is closed through the prayers and blessings of Father John Bosco.

After the prayer, the community watched a video clip of the Pope Francis invites participation in the Laudato Si action forum. The above content is okay more strongly deployed by Ms. Hong Phuc “We can all cooperate as God's instrument to preserve creation, each person according to culture, experience, initiative and ability” (LS 14).

The Holy Father initiated the Laudato Si action forum with the item goal is to respond to the cry of the earth, the cry of the poor, the cry of children and future generations. With the desire to initiate a “movement from below up” brings about the fundamental change urgently needed in the face of crisis our common home... Hope the forum creates an important impact to create social change. Urgent to act, to heat the earth Do not increase more than 1.5○C.

The Laudato Si Action Forum is a planned ecological conversion action in the spirit of comprehensive ecology to support and promote domesticity resources in families, communities, and organizations to achieve comprehensive sustainability. Here is the fruit of a unique cooperation of all men and women of good will.

Laudato Si's 7-year journey invites 7 components to participate: Fish Individual/family, Parish/diocese, Education, Health, Economy/agriculture, organization/group/community copper, religious order; working together towards 7 goals: Responding to the cry of the earth,  Responding to the cry of the poor, Economy ecology, Simple living, Eco-education, Eco-spirituality, Commitment of community.

And October 4, 2021, Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, Congregation for Development Services The Whole Man begins to introduce the Laudato Si’ Plans.

Organizations, communities or families are invited to sign a commitment Participate in developing the plan at: https://laudatosiactionplatform.org

The Season of Creativity will be an important time for everyone to speak up spoken by the most vulnerable. May we be the agents to renewing lives, servant leaders of all life in the Community Beloved, oikos of God. For God is present in the entire universe and in the smallest creatures, God Embracing all that exists with tenderness, God invites us to protect the life and beauty, living as brothers and sisters, harming no one. Dear God, rich in heart Have mercy, please pour down on us the power of Your love and arouse In us there is a desire to live with justice, love and peace.

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