A Lenten resource Resurrection and Hope By Sarah Young Week four I ask God from the wealth of his glory to give you power through his Spirit to be strong in your inner selves and I pray that Christ will make his home in your hearts through faith ID: 623645
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Our Common Home
A Lenten resourceSlide2
Resurrection and Hope
By Sarah Young
Week four Slide3Slide4Slide5
“I ask God
from the wealth of his glory to give you power through his Spirit to be strong in your inner selves,
and I pray that Christ will make his home in your hearts through faith.
I pray that you may have your roots and foundation in love,
so that you, together with all God's people, may have the power to understand how broad and long, how high and deep,
is Christ's love.
Ephesians 3: 15-19
PrayerSlide6
Dream of the life you want to live-
The sights you want to see
The skills you want to cultivate,
The ‘you’ you want to be.
Dream of the life you want to live-
Then take your dream to heart,
In everything you say and do,
Let your dream play a part.
Let it be a shining light
That guides you on your way-
Dream of the life you want to live,
Then live your dream each day.
Anonymous.
This poem was found on the wall of a retreat centre in the Southern Philippines
ReflectionSlide7
The resurrected Lord made himself visible to each of the people who had journeyed with him.
Let us make Jesus visible each day through
small acts of kindness
in our school, our families and in our world.
ActionSlide8
Action
Michael
Morpurgo’s
love
letter
Watch the film
hereSlide9
Dear little Miss Mia,
There’s so much I wish for you. I love the days when you work with me in the garden. I love above all your delight in everything, that wriggly worm you held between your fingers, just you kneeling there in the earth, so full of joy in being alive. But one day, Mia, if we do not care for it, this good earth of ours will be as arid and lifeless as the moon. Have you ever seen a picture of earth from space, Mia? It’s like a bright blue bead, spinning through the dark. A beacon of life. But our world is as fragile as you are, as I am, as trees are, as birds are, as plants are. If I have learnt anything in my long life, it’s this. Our earth is a living breathing being, and we must hurt her no more. We are using her up, fouling the air and the sea, making a dustbin of the land, a sewer of the oceans, a graveyard of her creatures. We have to learn to love our earth again, love her as much as I love you and you love me. For you and I, we are a part of this living planet, part of our earth’s great family.
So I wish for you, little Mia, and for all children everywhere,
a world, a new world without war or waste, where you and your children will be able to
breathe good clean air, drink clear fresh water, grow and eat only what we need, no more, learn to share what we have, so that no one anywhere goes hungry. I wish no tree ever to be cut down without planting three more in its place. I wish for you a world where, in flying our planes, driving our cars, warming our homes, we do not overheat the world, do not melt the icecaps, raise the oceans, bring flood and fire down upon ourselves. I wish for you a world where the elephant, the tiger and the orangutan can roam wild, free and safely in their forests and on their plains. I wish for you a world where the polar bear can wander far and wide in his world of ice and snow and where the whale and the dolphin can live the life of the deep undisturbed in clean clear seas. Those same seas where we have paddled and played so often together. So go on loving, go on planting, and growing and harvesting, live always in rhythm, in harmony with this wonderful earth, and all shall be well. And my dreams and wishes for you will come true. But all shall be well only if we make it well, Mia. There’s a lot of work to do. A lot of planting. A lot of loving. As I do you.
Your
GrandpaSlide10
© Copyright Jesuit
Missions 2016
Text by Sarah
Young and Samantha Aidoo
All photos were taken in Jesuit missions, schools and projects by Ashleigh Callow, Gioia Caminada and Richard Greenwood
.
Image on slide 3 created by Rob Ryan for the Climate Coalition.
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