April 22, 2015

Happy Earth Day

Today is Earth Day, a day marked across the world to celebrate our Earth and to encourage people to protect it.  We believe as Catholics that God created the Earth and that He put humans in charge of it. In fact, in the first creation story in Genesis 1, God looked at everything He created each day and found it "good."  But after He looked at everything after the sixth day, the day He created man and woman, He found the Earth "very good."

In honor of Earth Day, our prayer came from Genesis 1:26-31:

Then God said: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground." God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them, saying: "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth." God also said: "See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food; and to all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the ground, I give all the green plants for food." And so it happened. God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed - the sixth day.

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