Homily for
Tuesday
Week 5 of Ordinary
Time
Feb. 11, 2025
Gen 1: 20—2: 4
Christian Brothers, St. Joseph’s
Residence, N.R.
The Earthly Paradise (Brueghel the Younger)
“God saw how good it was” (Gen
1: 21).
That’s a refrain thruout Gen 1,
emphasizing the goodness of all that God has made and culminating in his
creation of human beings in his own image (1:27).
Our response to God’s work is
twofold. 1st, we appreciate his glorious
creation and praise him for its beauty, its grandeur, its vast majesty.
2d, we acknowledge that God’s
given us the earth, the air, the water, plants and animals for our use and our
delight. It’s a mark of respect for him,
of worship even, that we care for, preserve, and use wisely what he’s made and
entrusted to us. I think Pope Francis,
and Benedict before him, calls for every Christian to be an
environmentalist—not a “tree hugger,” to be sure, but a good steward who
recognizes that God’s lending his goods to us to share, preserve, hand on, and
point always to himself. How wonderful
his name in all the earth! (cf. Ps 8:2).
See
this reflection on creation, from America, 2/11/25.
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