NAME:GALVEZ, Glenn Paul M. DATE:SEPT.

20, 2018
SECTION:12-03 TEACHER:

“ LAUDATO SI’ ”

“LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”. In the words of this
beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister
with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us.
“Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs
us, and who produces various fruit with coloured flowers and herbs”. Pope Francis want
us to take a look at what kind of world we want to leave behind us. He explores the
essential connection between the ownership of natural resources, the regulation of banks,
animal experimentation, unemployment, genetic modification, consumerism, abortion,
poverty, prayer and politics. And returns to the essential truth that human beings are part
of the natural environment. Nature cannot be regarded as something separate from
ourselves or as a mere setting in which we live. We are part of nature, included in it and
this in constant interaction with it. Becuase now adays it is impossible to talk of any real
respect for the environment in the absence of respect for each human person. It is how
we are shaping the future of our planet. We need a conversation that includes everyone,
since the environment we are undergoing, and it is human roots that affects all of us.