{"id":47998,"date":"2022-09-02T20:24:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/tempo-del-creato-2022-ascolta-la-voce-del-creato\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:26:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:26:34","slug":"tempo-del-creato-2022-ascolta-la-voce-del-creato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/tempo-del-creato-2022-ascolta-la-voce-del-creato\/","title":{"rendered":"Season of Creation 2022: Listen to the Voice of Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pope Francis begins his message for this year\u2019s <em>Season of Creation<\/em> (September 1 &#8211; October 4) by asking us to listen to the sweet song of creation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We friars have promised to \u201cseek the presence of the \u2018Most High, all-powerful, good Lord\u2019 in prayer, in mission, in human relationships, in different cultures, and in creation\u201d (<em>Constitutions<\/em> 2).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pope Francis then asks us to listen to the accompaniment of the sweet song of creation, sung by a chorus of anguish.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We friars have promised to listen to the women and men of our time, \u201cto their difficulties, sufferings, and hopes, and join them in communal projects of solidarity\u201d (<em>Constitutions<\/em> 108 1).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pope Francis asks us to raise our voices, not as individuals but as a community, to bring about lasting change.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We friars have promised to:\n<ul>\n<li>\u201ctake to heart the care of the Earth as our \u2018common home\u2019\u201d (<em>Constitutions<\/em> 108 3);<\/li>\n<li>\u201cembrace lifestyles that witness to a love for creation and are in harmony with projects of environmental sustainability\u201d (<em>Constitutions<\/em> 108 3);<\/li>\n<li>\u201cpromote educational initiatives regarding \u2018integral ecological conversion\u2019\u201d (<em>Constitutions<\/em> 108 3);<\/li>\n<li>\u201cdivest [ourselves] of all things, and\u2026resist a consumer mentality, which leads both to accumulation and waste [and thereby harms] our \u2018Sister Mother Earth\u2019\u201d (<em>Constitutions<\/em> 14 6).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Encouraged by Pope Francis\u2019 call for us to listen, may our living of our Gospel promises open our hearts to \u201cweep with those who weep\u201d (Rom 12:15) and respond with deeds that bring a sound of hope to the sweet song of creation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Michael LASKY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis begins his message for this year\u2019s Season of Creation (September 1 &#8211; October 4) by asking us to listen to the sweet song of creation. We friars have promised to \u201cseek the presence of the \u2018Most High, all-powerful, good Lord\u2019 in prayer, in mission, in human relationships, in different cultures, and in creation\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,120,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general-offices","category-gpic-en","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}