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RENEWAL

A great cultural, spiritual & educational challenge stands before us, and it will demand that we set out on the long path of

NEEDLESS

Since the market tends to promote extreme consumerism in an effort to sell its products, people can easily get caught up in a whirlwind of _________________ buying & spending.

HEART

The emptier a person’s ______________ is, the more he or she needs to buy, own and consume.

DIGNITY

I appeal to everyone throughout the world not to forget this ____________ which is ours.

CHANGE IN LIFESTYLE

This could bring healthy pressure to bear on those who wield political, economic and social power.

- reverence for life
- firm resolve to achieve sustainability
- quickening of the struggle for justice and peace
- joyful celebration of life

As never before in history, common destiny beckons us to seek a new beginning... What areas need reawakening?

INDIVIDUALISM

If we can overcome this, we will truly be able to develop a different lifestyle and bring about significant changes in society.

NOT ENOUGH

Many people know that our current progress and the mere amassing of things and pleasures are _____________ to give meaning and joy to the human heart.

Environmental Education

This kind of education has broadened its goals. It now includes a critique of modernity.

WORTHWHILE

Actions on taking care of the earth can enable us to live more fully & to feel that life on earth is

FAMILY

It is the place in which life-the gift of God-can be properly welcomed and protected against the many attacks to which it is exposed

SELF CONTROL

We need institutions empowered to impose penalties for damage inflicted on the environment. But we also need personal qualities of ____________ and willingness to learn from one another.

BEAUTY

By learning to see and appreciate ____________, we learn to reject selfinterested pragmatism.

Teachings of the Gospel

They have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.

Ecological Conversion

This is what we all need whereby the effects of our encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in our relationship with the world around us

Change of Heart

This is the kind of conversion that we need to experience.

Community Networks

This is how social problems must be addressed, not simply by the sum of individual good deeds.

Conversion

This calls for a number of attitudes which together foster a spirit of generous care, full of tenderness

GOD

Each creature reflects something of _________and has a message to convey to us

LESS IS MORE

It is a kind of conviction found in different religious traditions and also in the Bible.

HAPPINESS

It means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer

Sobriety & Humility

These were virtues which were not favorably regarded in the last century. And yet, when there is a general breakdown, it ends up causing imbalances.

- serene harmony with Creation
- reflecting on our lifestyle & ideals
- contemplating the Creator

What areas are included in an integral ecology?

Attitude of the Heart

It is a kind of attitude which approaches life with serene attentiveness, which is capable of being fully present to someone, which accepts each moment as a gift from God

- dependence on God for life
- strengthens our feeling of gratitude for the gifts of creation
- acknowledges those who by their labors provide us with these goods
- reaffirms our solidarity with those in greatest need

What does the moment of giving thanks to God before and after meals remind us?

Care for Nature

It is part of a lifestyle which includes the capacity for living together and communion.

Shared Responsibility

We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a __________________ for others and the world, and that being decent are worth it

Saint Therese of Lisieux

She invites us to practice the little way of love, not to miss out on a kind word, a smile or any small gesture which sows peace and friendship.

LOVE

It is overflowing with small gestures of mutual care, is also civic and political, and it makes itself felt in every action that seeks to build a better world

Common Home

The world, and the quality of life of the poorest, are cared for, with a sense of solidarity which is at the same time aware that we live in a ______________ which God has entrusted to us.

Mystical Meaning

The universe unfolds in God, who fills it completely. Hence, there is a ________________ to be found in a leaf, in a mountain trail, in a dewdrop, in a poor person’s face

Saint John of the Cross

He taught that all the goodness present in the realities and experiences of this world is present in God eminently and infinitely.

Sacraments

They are a privileged way in which nature is taken up by God to become a means of mediating supernatural life.

Eucharist

It is the living center of the universe, the overflowing core of love and inexhaustible life.

Sunday

It is a day which is meant to heal our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world.

the Father

He is the ultimate source of everything.

The Son/Jesus Christ

He is God the Father’s reflection, through whom all things were created, united himself to this earth when he was formed in the womb of Mary

The Spirit/Holy Spirit

He is the infinite bond of love, is ultimately present at the very heart of the universe.

Trinitarian

.The Franciscan saint teaches us that each creature bears in itself a specifically ______________ structure

Divine Persons/Trinity

They are subsistent relations and the world, created according to the divine model, is a web of relationships.

Mother Mary

She is the Mother who cared for Jesus, and now cares with maternal affection and pain for this wounded world.

Joseph

The Gospel presents him as a just man, hardworking and strong. He was proclaimed custodian of the universal church.

Eternal life

It will be a shared experience of awe, in which each creature, resplendently transfigured, will take its rightful place.

JOY

May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the ________of our hope.

GOD

He calls us to generous commitment and to give Him our all, offers us the light and the strength needed to continue our way.