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.

This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with whichGod has endowed her.
‘We are called to an ecological conversion… where the effects of our encounter with Christ, become evident in our relationship with the world around us’ ‘Where the life of the spirit is not dissociated from the body or from nature or from worldly realities, but lived in and with them in communion with all that surrounds us.