The CARE for

GOD’S CREATION
(Laudato Si’)
 OBJECTIVES

• Define the importance on how to take care God’s Creation.

• Raised awareness in promoting and protecting the creation of God
and Environment.
• Realize that we are the stewards and co-creator of God’s creation to
our mother earth.
 Assignment
CREATE A BOOKMARK
THINK OF A “SHORT SLOGAN”
AS YOUR COMMITMENT TO
THE ENVIRONMENT

Rubrics:
10 Points Creativity
10 Points Content of Slogan
 REVIEW
THE CALL TO
FAMILY,
COMMUNITY
AND
PARTICIPATION
OUR COMMON HOME
 WHAT IS AN
ENVIRONMENT?
Environment is what is around
something.
It can be living or non-living things.
It includes physical, chemical and
other natural forces.

In the environment there are

interactions between
man, animals, plants, soil, water, and
other living and non-living things.
 The tradition of Catholic social teaching offers a developing and distinctive perspective on
environmental issues.
We believe that the following themes drawn from this tradition are integral dimensions of
ecological responsibility:

1. God-centered and sacramental view of the universe, which grounds human

accountability for the fate of the earth;
2. consistent respect for human life, which extends to respect for all creation;
3. an ethics of solidarity promoting cooperation and a just structure of sharing
in the world community;
4. an option for the poor, which gives passion to the quest for an equitable and
sustainable world.
 The Genesis Story
VIDEO…
 In Genesis the first humans are given
responsibility for caring for creation.

Creation provides us with the physical fabric of our lives; the natural environment
gives us the stuff we use every day.
It gives us the food for our tables, the material for our clothes and the materials to
build our houses and churches.

It is also a place where people have experienced a great

closeness with God through its beauty and wonder.
Creation is a gift from God and provides us with these things, the basics for our lives, yet it can
so easily and so often be taken for granted.
Modern technology has given us a huge amount of benefits that have
helped alleviate suffering and create new methods of solidarity among
people.
At the same time it's given new and efficient ways to plunder the worlds
natural resources.

Care for Creation ensures that we don’t neglect, but

protect and respect the gift that is our natural
environment.
 Environmental Destruction
VIDEO…
How the Church Respond to the
Environmental Issues today…
VIDEO…
 “All of us can cooperate as
instruments of God for the care of
creation, each according to his or her
own culture, experience,
involvements and talents.”

- Pope Francis I
 “Because all creatures are
connected, each must be cherished
with love and respect, for all of us as
living creatures are dependent on
one another.”

- Pope Francis I
 "Take good care of creation. People
occasionally forgive, but nature never
does. If we don’t take care of the
environment, there’s no way of
getting around it."

- Pope Francis I
 “Creation is neither a property
which we can rule over at will nor
even less. It is even the property of
only a few: Creation is a gift, it is a
wonderful gift that God has given us,
so that we care for it and we use it
for the benefit of all, always with
great respect and gratitude.”

- Pope Francis I