Kategoria: Common Home, Peace & Justice

After Pope Francis has shown how little we think and act like brothers and sisters in many areas, he calls us to take a clear position on the side of “the poor, the suffering and wounded people”. To show us what charity and fraternity mean in concrete terms, Fratelli Tutti offers in the 2nd chapter a profound meditation on the ancient and complex parable of the ‘Good
Samaritan’.

One of the contestant groups of the TV Show “Britain’s Got Talent”, a group of kids make their appeal to the whole human community to save the Common Home. A refresher in this time of lockdown.

Get in touch with the encyclical letter of Pope Francis “Fratelli Tutti” through this inspiring video and very pedagogical PDF… AND THEN… Go and read it. A beautiful actualisation of the way Francis of Assisi understood his being a Christian, a brother to all.

The ecological crisis questions us not only about what we do, but even more about who we are. We must act, but “how are we to act”? It is important to be, but “how to be”? It is urgent to begin a profound re-evaluation of our ways of seeing, feeling, thinking, believing, being and living in all areas of life.

We need new ways of being a church, a church perhaps more like the early church in Jerusalem, where prayer, eucharistic celebration and communal meals took place in the houses and the “laity” with their various charisms took responsibility for pastoral needs and for the proclamation of the Gospel.