One World, One Home, One Family

One World, One Home, One Family

Praise be to you O Lord as we attempt with all our sisters and brothers to continue to appreciate the beauty of your creation and preserve it for all those who come after us.  We are not    indifferent to our families, sisters and brothers, whether in our immediate family or universally. We respect and appreciate our roles as a family, as a unit of society and community.  This interest is not limited to one family or one community but to all families and all communities.

We are called as Christians to sustain and promote actions and behaviors that are for the good of the human race, those things that have as a consequence peace and justice for everyone.  What a challenge!  Sometimes it is   difficult to do the right thing just for my family, let alone the whole human race.  Our acts that violate the common good can no longer be tolerated or practiced.  As we are reminded by the document Laudato Si we are to share and venerate our “beautiful mother” – earth, with peoples of all countries no matter what!

A challenge?  Definitely! Something to practice in our personal behaviors?  Yes!

Lord, we rely on your graces to “praise you O Lord” as citizens of this wonderful world you have given us.  Amen.

Karen Flaherty DC