Day 48: Creation in Order
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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What Is Stewardship and Ownership?
The church has its foundation for how we treat the rest of creation by this particular paragraph. It reminds us that if every creature possesses its own particular goodness and perfection, then we must treat those creatures in that way. We also recognize that we belong to each other. But here is this interdependence of creatures as well. And it's kind of a little poetic where in paragraph 340 it says, the sun and the moon, the cedar and the little flower, the eagle and the sparrow,. The spectacle of their countless diversities and inequalities tells us that no creature is self-sufficient. They come from God and therefore they are for our use, but they're for our wise use
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