Care for Creation

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Honoring Creation

Francis taught that in God we are connected to the earth and all created things. In the spiritual life we're called to live attuned to this interdependence.
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Life Is Amazing

All life is utterly dependent upon our planet for everything it needs. God provides everything through creation.
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One Family

Kinship of creation is the theological insight that we are fellow creatures with all of God’s creation, uniquely loved and valued by God.
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Learn to Love the Earth

The distinction between creation and nature is an important one when we discuss the integrity of nature from the Franciscan tradition.
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Identity in God

The life of Francis shows us that to appreciate the book of creation we must come to know ourselves as creatures of God and as creatures of creation.
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Work in Concert with the World

The key to Francis’s fraternal relationship to the created world is identity. Francis came to know himself as a creature in relation to God as Creator.
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