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Wise Builders: A Prayer with Magnifica Humanitas October 14th, 2026
Wise Builders: A Prayer with Magnifica Humanitas
Prepared by Fr. Rohan Dominic, CMF — Coordinator, Claretian Missionaries Team @ the United Nations
Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity), invites us to reflect on human dignity and the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence, from its effects on work and relationships, to questions about who controls data and whose interests technology serves.
As technology advances, how can we ensure that it protects human dignity and serves the common good?
🙏 Explore this resource with us and take a moment to pray and reflect that AI’s development and use are guided by human dignity, moral responsibility, and the common good
DOWNLOAD PRAYER: https://bit.ly/4zy5qXk
Oblates Daily Prayer October 14th, 2026
Every day the Oblate Community and Family in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales publish a short reflective morning prayer video, created by members. Please join in daily from where you are.
Visit their Youtube channel for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/@TheOblates
2026 Season of Creation Final Reflection October 2nd, 2026
(Reflections by Maurice Lange, Justice & Peace Director at Presentation Sisters & founder of the Oblate Ecological Initiative)
We are ending the Season of Creation with this last Reflection inspired by Pope Leo’s letter and theme for the observance:
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks” — (Isaiah 2:4)
REFLECTION: “…God does not leave us without the means of healing and transformation.” Along with this assurance, Pope Leo encourages us in our call to safeguard ecosystems…and, he also challenges us to imagine.
Safeguarding and imagining. Safeguarding requires God’s gift of strength. Imagining is plainly counter-cultural.
As we near the end of this Season of Creation:
-What “ecosystem” are you actively safeguarding?
-Devote at least twice as much time to imagining as you currently do!
ACTION: Leo links the imagining of a world beyond war with our faith in the coming of God’s kingdom. Author Philip José Farmer once said “Imagination is like a muscle”. Strengthen your ability to imagine & envision! Here are some exercises! (https://www.thedailymeditation.com/imagination-exercises)
“Because Christ’s promises appeal to our imagination: they help us to imagine in a new way our lives, our history and the future of humanity.” – Pope Francis in an Audience, 5/27/23
FULL REFLECTION: https://bit.ly/3TeImgQ
Visit the Presentation Sisters, US Province’s WEBSITE: https://pbvmunion.org/…/laudato-si-action-platform…/
Fr. Raymond Cook, OMI Reappointed as Provincial Superior of the US-Province October 1st, 2026
On September 24, 2026, the Superior General
with the consent of the Council, appointed
Fr. Raymond Clark COOK as Superior of the US Province
for a second term
OMI JPIC extends Congratulations & Prayers to Fr. Raymond Cook, OMI on his reappointment as Provincial Superior of the US-Province
2026 Season of Creation Reflection #5 September 23rd, 2026
2026 Season of Creation
(Reflections by Maurice Lange, Justice & Peace Director at Presentation Sisters & founder of the Oblate Ecological Initiative)
We continue with our Reflections for this Season on Pope Leo’s latest letter and its theme: .
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks” — (Isaiah 2:4)
REFLECTION #5: What leads to human conflict and exploitation of Creation? Along with hearts needing to be renewed, Pope Leo points to “an ethical and cultural crisis, including the loss of a sense of limits…”
Thomas Berry further claims that (western) humans rage against Earth’s limitations.*
Allow the claims from Pope Leo & Thomas Berry to sink in……
Such loss + rage is on clear display in our misguided consumer demands. The current Administration as well as big tech mince no words in their rage against limitations.
ACTION: : Earth’s limitations – from the length of the seasons to the carrying capacity of landscapes – can actually evoke our nobility as humans. Living with a sense of place, living humbly and living in relationship with Earth make us grateful for Earth’s dynamic of generosity – which we partake in with every breath.
“The harmony between the Creator, humanity and creation as a whole was disrupted by our presuming to take the place of God and refusing to acknowledge our creaturely limitations.”
(Laudato Si #66)
FULL REFLECTION: https://bit.ly/3VKNVnK
Visit the Presentation Sisters, US Province’s WEBSITE: https://pbvmunion.org/…/laudato-si-action-platform…/
