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Pope calls for increased attention for the environment
(Vatican Radio)
Pope Francis has invited everyone to pay attention to environmental
issues.
Speaking after
the Sunday Angelus in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis said his first
encyclical will be published on Thursday, and he said: “This encyclical is
aimed at everyone”
Calling on
everyone to accompany this event with renewed attention to environmental
degradation, and the need to act to salvage one’s territory, the Pope said of
his encyclical: Let us pray that everyone can receive its message and grow in
responsibility toward the common home that God has entrusted to us”.
The document
entitled “Laudato Si’, On the Care of Our Common Home” will be launched at a
Vatican news conference this week.
The Pope’s
appeal followed a reflection on the Gospel reading of the day that speaks of
the seed that sprouts and grows and of the mustard seed which is the smallest
of all seeds but becomes the largest of plants.
Francis said
that through these images Jesus speaks to us of strength of God’s life-giving
Word, and of how Christ’s love transforms that what is small and modest into
something that makes the whole world and all of history ferment.
And reminding
those present to always carry a pocket-sized copy of the Gospel, and to read a
passage every day, the Pope said in the Gospel is the strength that makes the
Kingdom of God germinate and sprout within us.
Above all - he
said – the two parables teach us something important: the Kingdom of God is a
gift of the Lord, but it requires our collaboration.
He said that
although our contribution may appear meagre before the complexity of problems
in the world, thanks to God’s love each seed of goodness will sprout and grow,
and this – Pope Francis said – gives life to hope; notwithstanding the injustice
and pain we may come across, the seed of charity and peace will yield its
fruits thanks to the mysterious love of God.
(Linda Bordoni)
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