Leader: Fr. Richard Landry, MS
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Comments about the Eco-Mission
Special Readings
The following readings are suggestions that could be integrated in the Sunday liturgy to allow for a clearer connection to the preached message of the Eco-Mission.
WEEKEND 1 – FIRST READING – PSALM 139
O God, you search me and you know me; you know everything I do;
From far away you understand all my thoughts.
You see me whether I am resting or working; you know all my actions.
Even before I speak, you already know what I will say.
You are all around me on every side; you protect me with your power.
Where could I go to escape from you?
Where could I get away from your presence?
If I went up to heaven, you would be there;
If I lay down in the world of the dead, you would be there.
If I flew away beyond the east or lived in the farthest place in the west,
You would be there to lead me, you would be there to help me.
I could ask the darkness to hide me, or the light around me to turn into
night,
but even the darkness is not dark for you, and the night is as bright as
day.
Darkness and light are the same to you.
You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because you are to be feared;
All you do is strange and wonderful; I know it with all my heart.
When my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother’s womb,
when I
was growing there in secret, you knew that I was there,
You saw me before I was born.
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WEEKEND 2 – FIRST READING – JOB 38
Then out of the storm, God spoke to Job.
Who are you to question my wisdom with your ignorant, empty words?
Where were you when I made the world?
If you know so much about it, tell me about it!
Who laid the cornerstone of the world? In the dawn of that day the stars
sang together and the heavenly beings shouted for joy!
Job, have you ever in all your life commanded a day to dawn?
Have you been to the springs in the depths of the sea?
Have you walked on the floor of the ocean?
Has anyone ever shown you the gates that guard the dark world of the dead?
Have you any idea how big the world is?
Do you know where the light comes from or what the source of darkness is?
Who makes rain fall where no one lives?
Who waters the dry and thirsty land so that grass springs up?
Who is the mother of the ice and frost?
Can you tie the Pleiades together or loosen the bonds that tie Orion?
Can you guide the stars season by season and direct the Big and Little
Dipper?
Do you know the laws that govern the skies and can you make them apply to
the Earth?
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WEEKEND 3 – SECOND READING – ROMANS 8
All of Creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his sons and
daughters. For Creation was condemned to lose its purpose, not of its own
will, but because God willed it to be so. Yet there was the hope that
Creation itself would one day be set free from its slavery to decay and
would share the glorious freedom of the children of God. For we know that up
to the present time all of Creation groans with pain, like the pain of
childbirth. But it is no Creation alone which groans; we who have the Spirit
as the first of God’s gifts also groan within ourselves as we wait for God
to make us his sons and daughters and set our whole being free.
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Book of Genesis, Chapter 3
That evening they heard the Lord God walking in the garden and they hid from him among the trees. But the Lord God called out to the man: “Where are you?”
He answered: “I heard you in the garden; I was afraid and hid from you because I was naked.”
“Who told you that you were naked?” God asked. “Did you eat the fruit that I told you not to eat?”
The man answered: “The woman you put here with me gave me the fruit and I ate it.”
The Lord God asked the woman: “Why did you do this?”
She replied: “The snake tricked me into it.”
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