Care for Creation
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.
The Word Dwells in Creation
The life of Francis shows us that right relationship in creation is not easy. He heard the words spoken by the crucified Christ—“go rebuild my house”—and took them literally. He began to rebuild the church of San Damiano stone by ...
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Creation vs Nature
To speak of creation as our home is to speak of creation as relationship. The word creation implies relationship, unlike the word nature, which holds no inherent religious meaning.
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God’s Home
Francis taught the brothers to accept the gifts of God’s goodness in creation and to respond with grateful hearts through bonds of love, care, concern, and companionship.
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Hands for Work, Hearts for Prayer
In some ways our modern lives are easier, but has not this distancing from agriculture contributed to our alienation from creation?
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The Word Dwells in Creation
As the Word dwells in the human person, so, too, the same Word dwells in creation.
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I’d Like to Say: St. Francis Reminds Us of Our Place in Creation
There weren’t ecologists in the Middle Ages, at least by our modern understanding of environmentalism. But St. Francis changed all that with a new vision of creation as a reflection of God’s love and the Incarnation.
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