(Via Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has decided to set up a “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation” which will be celebrated on September 1st annually.
He made the announcement in a letter to the heads of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity.
While the words’ “global warming” and “climate change” aren’t specifically mentioned in the text, the purpose seems clear in the context of his recent encyclical when they say “the future of creation”. Something that Dr. James Hansen has touched on in a 2009 presentation “Climate Threat to Creation: Implications for Intergenerational Equity and Justice“. and also in 2007 with “An Opportunity to Lead the Nation in Stewardship of the Earth and Creation“. The language here seems very similar and the mention of the Encylical Letter. Laudato Si, 7-9 removes any doubt.
My view: God helps those who help themselves. If the planet is going to hell in a handbasket as they claim, praying about it won’t do much good.
Below in English is Pope Francis’ letter announcing the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation”
To my Venerable Brothers
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah TURKSON, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
Cardinal Kurt KOCH, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity
Sharing with my beloved brother the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew his concerns for the future of creation (cfr Encylical Letter. Laudato Si, 7-9) and taking up the suggestion by his representative, the Metropolitan Ioannis of Pergamum who took part in the presentation of the Encyclical Laudato Si on the care of our common home, I wish to inform you that I have decided to set up also in the Catholic Church, the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation” which, beginning this year, will be celebrated on the 1st of September, as the Orthodox Church has done for some time now.
As Christians we wish to offer our contribution towards overcoming the ecological crisis which humanity is living through. Therefore, first of all we must draw from our rich spiritual heritage the reasons which feed our passion for the care of creation, always remembering that for believers in Jesus Christ, the Word of God who became man for us, “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.” (ibid., 216). The ecological crisis therefore calls us to a profound spiritual conversion: Christians are called to “an ecological conversion whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them.” (ibid., 217). Thus, “living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.”(ibid).
The annual World Day of prayer for the Care of Creation offers to individual believers and to the community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation, raising to God our thanks for the marvellous works that He has entrusted to our care, invoking his help for the protection of creation and his mercy for the sins committed against the world in which we live. The celebration of the Day on the same date as the Orthodox Church will be a valuable opportunity to bear witness to our growing communion with our orthodox brothers. We live in a time where all Christians are faced with identical and important challenges and we must give common replies to these in order to appear more credible and effective. Therefore it is my hope that this Day can involve, in some way, other Churches and ecclesial Communities and be celebrated in union with the initiatives that the World Council of Churches is promoting on this issue.
Cardinal Turkson, as President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, I asking you to inform the Justice and Peace Commissions of the Bishops’ Conferences, as well as the national and international Organizations involved in environmental issues about the establishment of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, so that in union with the needs and the local situation , this celebration can be rightly marked with the participation of the entire People of God: priests, men and women religious and the lay faithful. For this reason, it will be the task of this Dicastery, in collaboration with the Episcopal Conferences to set up relevant initiatives to promote and illustrate this Day, so that this annual celebration becomes a powerful moment of prayer, reflection, conversion and the adoption of appropriate life styles.
Cardinal Koch, as President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, I’m asking you to make the necessary contacts with the Ecumenical Patriarchate and with the other ecumenical organisations so that this World Day can become the sign of a path along all believers in Christ walk together. It will also be your Dicastery’s task to take care of the coordination with similar initiatives set up by the World Council of Churches.
Whilst I look forward to the widest possible cooperation for the best start and development of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, I invoke the intercession of Mary, the Mother of God and of St. Francis of Assisi, whose Canticle of the Creatures inspires so many men and women of goodwill to live in praise of the Creator and with respect for creation. I support this pledge along with my Apostolic Blessing which I impart with all my heart to you, my dear Cardinals, and to all those who collaborate in your ministry.
From the Vatican, 6th August 2015
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Well, we gave the “Romans” a good thrashing and drove them away from our shores. They had brutally ruled our forefathers and our islands. (It was quite some time ago).
Their eventual conversion to christianity was just another way to CONTROL using a religious belief system: so, here we go again !
Methinks a heavenly and most beautiful psalm by choir-boy cherubs (a viral video) could do the trick, singing eyes-upward to a craven, pope-like image… “We send our methane unto thee, we all ate cabbage, voraciously”. (Sound effects at full ‘parp’ volume with a kneeling and praying audience fainting in their pews like falling dominoes).
Just sayin’ !
The care of creation requires its honest accurate understanding .
The eKoStatists are guilty of crimes against reality .
So what is new?
Believing in the evil of global warming is a mater of religious like conviction rather than a rational scientific thought.
In this case Vatican again needs to re-examine state of its credo, as it did on number of the past occasion.
Here’s a Prayer, Your Holiness:
Lord save the Eagle and the Hawk, the Bat and the Buzzard and all those wondrous creatures given wings as art Thine own Angels and which are now laid waste across hill and dale by the awful spinning machinery of death which was brought forth by those who line their pockets by deceit and mark their passage with bloody feathered corpses rotting in the Sun.
This will establish a new entry in the Guinness Book of Records:
“The most atheists that pray on any given day.”
The cult now has a church.
+100
Now that is a good comment ! 🙂
Now, every Catholic priest with a congregation, will be promoting the CAGW agenda during Mass. And the congregation need not question the science behind it…Just simply have faith in the reality of it.
Now could well be the time for Vatican Radio to make the announcement:-
“The Pope has eloped!”
The word ‘denier’ will change to ‘blasphemer’.
I’ll totally go with your “God helps those who help themselves” theorem.
Luckily I wasn’t the one that awoke that sleeping dog.
But, whatever.
This is really a shame…he stands to alienate half of his audience
Climate Change is going full-on Religion. In other words:
That should help anyone who’s ambivalent or unsure in the science community to understand what Climate Change has now become. Richard Feynman is turning in his grave.
Perhaps his Holiness should stick to this oldie but goodie:
God, grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, The courage to change the things we can, And the wisdom to know the difference.
Particularly the wisdom part.
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Dude should just stick to peddling fairy tales.
I wonder how your average church goer will react to the edict from this new Pope that there are now two Gods to worship…the Supreme Being and now the Earth?
Not too well methinks. Watch for a massive drop in regular church goers.
LOL. Anything to prove God exists. Does he then pull out the God Article with graphs to prove God heard and acted?
His own personal CERN tunnel?
Disclaimer, not rubbishing God just formal religions.
Gaia worship? I thought the Bible sez not to pray to false gods.
Who prays to Gaia ??
She is just a super Maxwell’s Demon, who sees all, and knows all, and tells nothing (to us).
But a useful notion to contemplate what we might know, if we were able to know the unknowable.
For example; if I have a mole of gas (atmosphere) which at STP occupies 22.4 liters, I have a set of molecules with serial numbers ranging from 1 up to Avogadro’s number.
Now U and I cannot read those serial numbers, but Mother Gaia can.
So she can look at any instant and see which serial numbers occupy which kinetic energy slot in the Maxwell-Boltzmann KE distribution graph that applies to a gas in thermal equilibrium at a single Temperature.
So there is an available pixel on that M-B distribution graph for every single molecule in the sample so there are Avogadro’s number of pixels in the area under the graph.
Now as I said, U & I cannot read the serial numbers so we see a static picture, with every pixel occupied by some molecule or other, and the shape of that graph is characteristic of the Temperature.
So what exactly does Mother Gaia; my Super Maxwell’s Demon see ??
Well she can of course read the serial numbers; all of them, instantaneously.
And every time she looks, she sees that all of the serial numbers have shifted, and swapped places, in an infinite variety of patterns, but always, with one molecule on each pixel, but the number on any pixel changes randomly.
Ergo, we can say, that over time, any single molecule, let’s say # 3141592656 will eventually have been seen at every one of those pixel locations, by M-G.
So we can say, that for that molecule number 3141592656, it has a time varying kinetic energy, that fluctuates in the exact same Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution pattern, as that exhibited by the whole mole of gas, at that particular Temperature.
Now traditionally we say that any single molecule in free flight; i.e. not in a collision with other molecules has NO temperature.
Temperature is a macro thermo-dynamic property of huge assemblages of molecules.
Any single molecule cannot have a Temperature.
But we can say that a single molecule has a pseudo-Temperature, which is the TIME AVERAGED KE of that molecule, and has the same M_B KE over time as a volume of gas at that same Temperature.
Mother Gaia knows that; but she will never tell us, and we can’t read the molecule’s serial number, to watch it move around in KE space.
g > G
George I heard it as: Sees all, hears all and knows SFA.
There is a simple link to email the vatican. What little respect I still had for the catholic church dissipated when they elected the current creature as pope. John Paul I respected but not this creature.
You keep saying “creature”, care to define the term ??
I thought in the 10 commandments it said thou shalt have no other good before me. Since global climate warming is a religion the pope may get cross way with his boss
Pretty obvious what’s going on here:
Romans 1:
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,…
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.
SR
This Pope is the kind of person St. Paul warned us about in his letter to the Romans.
Chapter 1-25. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator.
How sad, when the truth is so much easier and just a finger tip away.
There have been old ones who looked me in the eye, “Son some people are just no good and there is nothing you can do about it but stay away from them.”
Sad in this case for sure.
Hes right,
Let us all pray for global warming,
the last thing we want is the cooling
Thus, every September 1 we will witness the observation of The Roman Catholic Church’s Cargo Cult Climate Science Day.
That action requested by the Roman Catholic Church confirms Richard Feynman’s observation that cargo cult science is a religion.
John
Former NOAA scientist warns of Arctic cooling and claims the US govt is fiddling with temp data. Big surprise NOT.
http://notrickszone.com/2015/08/12/now-starting-to-see-a-dramatic-cooling-in-the-arctic-says-former-noaa-meteorologist-extremely-cold-from-2025-to-2050/#comments
It may behoove the Pope to remember that he does NOT speak for all Christians, regardless of how much he thinks of himself…
Certainly not this one, not even Catholic.
Seems like he’s trying to hijack his own holiday- Labour Day!
Eminently reasonable, since belief in AGW has much more in common with religious belief than in the scientific method.