{"id":28721,"date":"2020-04-23T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdipime.org\/missionary-life\/giornata-mondiale-della-terra\/"},"modified":"2020-04-23T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:24:57","slug":"giornata-mondiale-della-terra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/events\/giornata-mondiale-della-terra\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cPraised be You, my Lord, through our Sister Mother Earth\u201d<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0Francis of Assisi<\/a>\u00a0sang these words in 1225,\u00a0thanking the Lord and praising Him for all his creatures in a contemplative gaze that could transcend death. In 2015, he was echoed by the new Pope in the Encyclical Letter\u00a0Laudato Si\u2019<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Pope Francis soon chose to take the name of the Saint of Assisi, by whose words he express his heartfelt appeal to listen to the painful cry of our sister and mother Earth, in order to invite us all to \u201ca global ecological conversion\u201d (LS 5). It is urgent, he said (LS 13):<\/p>\n

\u201cto protect our common home, to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Therefore, we join the people of the whole world to celebrate the Earth and promote its protection, aiming day by day at \u201canother lifestyle\u201d.\u00a0Aware\u00a0that the whole creation has a\u00a0common origin, and\u00a0that living beings belong to each other\u00a0in such a close relationship that\u00a0every good or bad change affects everything, we walk with courage towards a future built together to leave a more beautiful world to future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cPraised be You, my Lord, through our Sister Mother Earth\u201d,\u00a0Francis of Assisi\u00a0sang these words in 1225,\u00a0thanking the Lord and praising Him for all his creatures in a contemplative gaze that could transcend death. In 2015, he was echoed by the new Pope in the Encyclical Letter\u00a0Laudato Si\u2019.\u00a0 Pope Francis soon chose to take the name of the Saint of Assisi, by whose words he express his heartfelt appeal to listen to the painful cry of our sister and mother Earth, in order to invite us all to \u201ca global ecological conversion\u201d (LS 5). It is urgent, he said (LS 13): \u201cto protect our common home, to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change.\u201d Therefore, we join the people of the whole world to celebrate the Earth and promote its protection, aiming day by day at \u201canother lifestyle\u201d.\u00a0Aware\u00a0that the whole creation has a\u00a0common origin, and\u00a0that living beings belong to each other\u00a0in such a close relationship that\u00a0every good or bad change affects everything, we walk with courage towards a future built together to leave a more beautiful world to future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow8ovLDA:productID":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t