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2025 Season of Creation: “Seeds of Peace and Hope” Reflection #5

September 25th, 2025

(By Maurice Lange, Justice & Peace Director at Presentation Sisters & founder of the Oblate Ecological Initiative)

We continue with our Reflections for the 2025 Season of Creation on Pope Leo’s letter and its theme: “Seeds of Peace and Hope”. 

“For (indigenous communities), land is not a commodity but rather a gift from God and from their ancestors who rest there, a sacred space with which they need to interact if they are to maintain their identity and values.” (Laudato Si #146)

READ: 5th part of Pope Leo’s letter for the 2025 Season of Creation (view PDF)

REFLECTION: : “Nature itself is reduced at times to a bargaining chip, a commodity…”
Pope Leo does not mince words. Neither does this photo.

  • Where have you experienced Creation being reduced to a commodity?
  • How is such denigration of Earth, which “is like a sister…and mother” to us, akin to misogyny? to rape?
  • What within myself prefers to remain unconscious in terms of how I relate with Earth?

ACTION: Pick up and sit with Elizabeth Johnson’s powerful words in the updated (2022) small but classic work “Women, Earth, and Creator Spirit”. 

(PHOTO CREDIT: Vlad Chetan, Pexels.com)

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“…our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us.” (Laudato Si #1)

  • Visit the Presentation Sisters, US Province’s WEBSITE

READ MORE OF MAURICE’S WEEKLY REFLECTIONS

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