GREENER 2021 Bulletin Quotes ​ ​ ​ ​

Lead Up to (2 options, one allows alternate sign-ups) Greener Lent is a fasting program focused on justice for the poor who are most affected by climate degradation. By reducing meat consumption, we substantially reduce our personal environmental impact.

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Greener Lent is a fasting program focused on justice for the poor who are most affected by climate degradation. By reducing meat consumption, we substantially reduce our personal environmental impact.

Learn how you can make a difference and sign up now at https://greenerlent.org/ or contact (PARISH REP INFO) ​

th February 14 ​ Last Sunday before Lent ​ Maximus the Confessor, and Benedict on the Environment

"It is according to whether we use things rightly or wrongly that we become either good or bad," Maximus the Confessor

We must treat creation properly in order to achieve spiritual growth.

In Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI wrote, "The way humanity treats the environment influences the way it treats itself and vice versa."

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February 21st First Sunday of Lent Love Requires Justice Jesus said, “Love your neighbor”. That means everyone. Jesus was concerned with the poor, foreigners and even enemies. Following his message of love is exceedingly difficult. It is especially difficult for those of us that live in the richest country in the world.

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February 28th Second Sunday of Lent Fasting is Connected with Spiritual and Corporal Works Penance also demands that we satisfy divine justice with fasting, almsgiving and prayer and other works of the spiritual. Pope Clement XIII

It is not too late to join! Sign up now at https://greenerlent.org/ ​ March 7th Third Sunday of Lent The agree that We Need to be a Part of the Solution Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these cause...the seriousness of the ecological issue lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become a part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few. John Paul II (Message for the 1990 World Day of Peace, no. 7)

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March 14th Fourth Sunday of Lent () on the Environment ​ “The universe as a whole, in all its manifold relationships, shows forth the inexhaustible riches of God.” (Laudato Si’, no. 86)

What does nature teach us about the Creator? Has your own experience of the created world helped you to pray or communicate with God?

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March 21st Fifth Sunday of Lent St Gregory the Great: use talents with Mercy and Generosity

“He that hath a talent let him see that he hide it not; he that hath abundance, let him quicken himself to mercy and generosity; he that hath art and skill, let him do his best to share the use and the utility there of with his neighbor.”

“We are so trapped in a culture that induces us to look in the mirror and pamper ourselves, that we think that an altruistic gesture is enough, without the need to get directly involved.” Pope Francis SECOND WORLD DAY OF THE POOR, Nov. 18, 2018

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March 28th of the Passion of the Lord

LAUDATO SI’

“Our relationship with the environment can never be isolated from our relationship with others and with God…Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature is also incompatible with the justification of abortion.” Pope Francis, Laudato Si, 119-120 https://greenerlent.org/

April 4th Sunday

Thank you for participating in Greener Lent 2021. May you go forward with a renewed sense of how your everyday choices affect your fellow man.

Post Easter

Thank you for participating in Greener Lent 2021.

“In the Christian understanding of the world, the destiny of all creation is bound up with the mystery of Christ, present from the beginning…One Person of the entered into the created cosmos, throwing in his lot with it, even to the cross.” Laudato Si 99