Christians are called to accept the world as a sacrament of communion, as a way of sharing with God and our neighbors on a global scale. It is our humble conviction that the divine and the human meet in the slightest detail in the seamless garment of God's creation, in the last speck of dust of our planet.
--Patriarch Bartholomew I of Contantinople,
quoted in Pope Francis' Laudato Si, paragraph 9.
quoted in Pope Francis' Laudato Si, paragraph 9.
(From his original text:
"Global Responsibility and Ecological Sustainability," June 2012.)
"Global Responsibility and Ecological Sustainability," June 2012.)
To download the full text of Pope Francis' encyclical, Laudato Si, click here.
Image source (1): Creation Tapestry, Girona Cathedral, Spain
Image source (2): Michael Delman, Night Sky over Mount Tamalpais
For Delman's full one-minute video, click here.
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