Advent is a Season that contains a tremendous depth of spiritual richness! If lived out properly, it can cultivate our wonder, lift our eyes to the gift that is all creation, compel us to see our desires as a pathway to divinity, soften our wounds, and finally, shed light upon the sanctity that each of […]Read More
Topics : Creation
This article gives an overview of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform. It describes its goals and its proposed set of actions. various entities around the world are implementing them. The Laudato Si’ Action Platform, is an online platform through which the Vatican’s Dicastery Promoting Integral Human Development is promoting a 7-year action plan with clear […]Read More
March 26th 2021, the day when, together with my husband, I watched the Netflix film Seaspiracy. The makers of the film were “determined to document and uncover what is responsible for oceanic destruction and extinction”. I live on the island of Malta, and I eat fish regularly (I love fish!). As I watched the film, […]Read More
As part of the celebrations of the Season of Creation (1st Sept – 4th Oct) Fr Jimmy Bonnici gives an ecological conversion definition in this article. Through the encyclical ‘On Care for Our Common Home‘, he demonstrates how an eco-conversion implies a new way how we look at, interact and behave in front of creation. […]Read More
Why care for our common home? Musician Fr Rob Galea, a Maltese priest living in Australia, shares a few words about Pope Francis’ letter “On Care For Our Common Home” and its relevance in today’s scenario dominated by Covid-19. The heart of a Pope who loves the heart of a loving God “When I first […]Read More
These four Maltese professionals from different sectors of society share a common passion, they love the environment, and they have all read Pope Francis’ letter On Care Of Our Common Home. On the occasion of Laudato Si Week 2020, 16th-24th May, they tells us what inspires them from this encyclical and its relevance in today’s […]Read More
Fr Mark Ciantar OFM offers his reflections about protecting nature from a Christian and Jewish perspective, both from his research and experience he had at Frate Jacoba House in Marsascala… “A message from the church, mosque, synagogue or temple, has more power to motivate action than an economic message” ‘There are many ways in which people […]Read More
EVOLUTION QUOTE BY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN “As to the Divine Design, is it not an instance of incomprehensibly and infinitely marvelous Wisdom and Design to have given certain laws to matter millions of ages ago, which have surely and precisely worked out, in the long course of those ages, those effects which He from the […]Read More
CREATION QUOTES FROM THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH “For just as though some musician, having tuned a lyre, and by his art adjusted the high notes to the low, and the intermediate notes to the rest, were to produce a single tune as the result, so also the Wisdom of God, handling the Universe as […]Read More
CREATIVE EVOLUTION SHORT POEM ABOUT GOD’S CREATION When God created us we really knoweth not. We know, for sure, He took five long days to make Sun, moon, Earth and seas, plants, animals the lot Oak trees, thrushes, tigers, crabs, hill, desert, lake. One other day spent to craft: a puzzle solved? His best creation, […]Read More