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June 2018 |Pentecost Volume XVI | Issue 06 | Rs.150 Per Annum Cover CSI General Secretary and WF President Attend WCRC Executive Committee in South Korea Karnataka Regional Missionary Conference in Dharward 02 EDITOR’S DESK Join the creational liturgy Psalm 148 is a hallelujah sung by the creatures the human practice of praising sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and choir of creation. Each created order and God in human language. It entails how all those who live in it. Let the floods clap being joins in singing praise to the Lord! creatures bring glory to God simply by their hands; let the field exult, and It represents a symbiosis of praise with being themselves and fulfilling their everything in it. Then shall all the trees of every element in all of God's creation God-given roles in God's creation. the forest sing for joy all the trees of the being called to praise together, and the field shall clap their hands (Psalm 96:11- The psalms present us with the creational response of one affects the response of 12, Psalm 98:7-8, Cf. 1 Chronicles 16:32- Hallelujah in very powerful language. the other. Contrary to the popular belief 33, Isaiah 55:12). The heavens are telling the glory of God; that human beings have a priestly role on and the firmament proclaims His By their being, by their splendour and behalf of the creation, the psalmist uses handiwork. Day to day pours forth majesty, created things allude to the far human language to describe how the speech, and night to night declares greater splendour and majesty of the whole creation joins together in the knowledge. There is no speech, nor are Lord. In the created order is the self- worship of God the creator. In fact, the there words; their voice is not heard; yet revelation of the Creator God. Creation psalm makes it clear that creation sings their voice goes out through all the earth, proclaims the very being and nature of hallelujah very well without human and their words to the end of the world the Creator God. The creational liturgy beings! Nevertheless, human beings (Psalm 19:1-4). Let the heavens be glad, informs us who God is and ascribes God have the great opportunity to join the and let the earth rejoice; the mountains the supreme worth. The liturgy of creation liturgy of praise as part of creation. and the hills before you shall burst into powerfully conveys the marvellous, Creational symphony of praise is song and sing together for joy. Let the beautiful and intricate bonds of metaphorical! It attributes to nonhuman J u n e 2 0 1 8 03 connection between the Creator and the conviction that God, and not human the whole web of life. created, as well as the complete beings, rule the world. Praise as a lifestyle The symphony of praise in the liturgy of dependence of creation on the Creator and involves living out what we affirm in creation has become a song of lamentation therefore, is a call to understand the variety, worship, that is, living in such a way that and groaning (Romans 8:22) manifested in the interconnectedness and the acknowledges and preserves the intrinsic the form of global warming, depletion of interdependence of all that is created. value, interdependence and integrity of Carbon sinks, bleaching of coral reefs, all people, all animate and inanimate The creational liturgy also informs us of deforestation, melting of the northern ice, creation. the secret of the creational Sabbath, the rising of sea levels submerging the islands Shalom, the harmonious peace that Psalm 148 stands in the tradition of heat waves, toxic water bodies and emphasizes the Creator's constant protest and resistance against the empire, farmlands, polluted oceans, drought, presence in the creation through His against princes, rulers (vs 11ff) and mortal cloud bursts, floods, extreme cold indwelling spirit, holding everything human beings on the earth who falsely conditions and snow covers, earthquakes, together, and keeping the rhythm and claim to have the power to control and tsunamis etc. Creation's hallelujah has song of life. (Prov.8:22ff). Thus, in the use creation to serve their purposes and turned into cries of distress and creational liturgy, God's unfathomable plans. It is against the powers that break the subjugation. The whole creation waits in wisdom and knowledge is revealed and interconnectedness and interdependence eager expectation of liberation from the encountered. In listening to the creational of every creature and the created order. It is bondage of decay (Romans 8:19-21). liturgy, we begin to discern God's plan, against the forces that break the harmony in We human beings need to humbly purpose for God's creation and are led to creation. Therefore, the Psalm confesses its approach the throne of grace, with true understand our own life and being, unshakable faith in the Lord, reverberating repentance which involves the pain of revealed only when it is reconciled and in and constituting a kind of hallelujah chorus - facing the truth, acknowledging the synchronization with the rhythm of the Lord reigns! Let the whole creation praise injustice and sins committed against God's creation, which resonates peace. the name of the Lord, for God's name alone creation; looking forward to forgiveness is exalted (vs.13). According to Psalm 148, God will be and possibility of reconciliation and praised by nothing short of a cosmic However, today we acknowledge that restored communion and hoping to congregation. In this universal symphony creation's symphony of praise has been receive pardon and the embrace of God's of praise, there is a tacit acknowledgement muted or distorted by the ways that all-encompassing grace, in order to be part of the equality of all constituents that make humankind has exploited, polluted, and of creational liturgy once again, in joining up the whole creation. Thus, Psalm 148 calls destroyed creation's resources, all in the the symphony of praise, Hallelujah! all creation to praise God and to show forth name of progress and development for Rev. Dr. D. Rathnakara Sadananda God's glory with greater clarity and to whatever human benefits and reasons. General Secretary, CSI recognize God's sovereign claim upon the The massive presence of injustice meted universe, which is in essence, both a out to the created order and the voracious liturgical worship as well as a lifestyle. exploitation and over consumption of the Praise in worship acknowledges the resources in the creation is threatening 04 J u n e 2 0 1 8 Beat Plastic Pollution India is hosting the World Environment Day everyone uses it. Polythene is the world's (WED) on 5th June 2018. World Environment most popular plastic and is used to make Day is the UN's most important day for billions of carrier bags each year. Today, it's encouraging worldwide awareness and used widely in the manufacture of food a c t i o n f o r t h e p r o t e c t i o n o f o u r packaging, carrier bags, plastic pipes, environment. Since it began in 1974, it has electrical cable insulation and even artificial grown to become a global platform for hips. However, because it takes several public outreach that is widely celebrated in centuries to biodegrade, polythene is P r o f . D r . M a t h e w Ko s h y over 100 countries. World Environment loathed by environmentalists and the Punnackad, Hon. Director, CSI Day is the "people's day" for doing polythene bag has become a symbol of synod Department of Ecological something to take care of the Earth. The man's pollution of the planet. theme each World Environment Day is Concerns Story of Polythene: organized around focuses attention on a 1933 – Polyethylene, the most commonly particularly pressing environmental used plastic, is created by accident at a concern. The theme for 2018 is beating chemical plant in Northwich, England. plastic pollution. While polyethylene had been created in Plastic Pollution facts: small batches before, this was the first Ÿ Every year the world uses 500 billion synthesis of the material that was plastic bags. industrially practical, and it was initially used in secret by the British military during Ÿ Each year, at least 8 million tonnes of World War II. plastic end up in the oceans, the equivalent of a full garbage truck every 1965 – The one-piece polyethylene minute. shopping bag is patented by the Swedish company Celloplast. Designed by engineer Ÿ In the last decade, we produced more Sten Gustaf Thulin, the plastic bag quickly plastic than in the whole last century. began to replace cloth and plastic in Ÿ 50 percent of the plastic we use is single- Europe. use or disposable. 1979 – Already controlling 80% of the bag Ÿ We buy 1 million plastic bottles every market in Europe, plastic bags go abroad minute. and are widely introduced to the United States. Plastic companies begin to Ÿ Plastic makes up 10% of all of the waste aggressively market their product as we generate. superior to paper and reusable bags. Supermarkets love it. Environmentalists 1982 – Safeway and Kroger, two of the hate it: A rare novelty in the 1970s, plastic biggest supermarket chains in the United shopping bags are now an omnipresent States, switch to plastic bags. More stores global product, produced at a rate of one follow suit and by the end of the decade trillion a year. They are showing up in the plastic bags will have almost replaced paper darkest depths of the oceans to the summit around the world.

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