INTEGRAL ECOLOGY

August 27 was a rather quiet day. As Lauds were personal, some of the Sisters gathered in the refectory for breakfast. After 9 a.m. mass, the morning was left free, to give the capitulants some time to breathe after the intense days of the past week.

After lunch at 1pm and a short rest, we returned to the hall at 3pm for another session on integral ecology, led by S. Maamalifar M. Poreku, Missionaries Sister of Our Lady of Africa (MSOLA). She was recently appointed as one of the  Executive Co-secretaries  in the Commission of JPIC in UISG-USG.

She began her introduction of the topic in which she showed us our mission of Evangelization and Christian Education of the youth as privileged spaces for influencing the world on the value for the care of creation. The chapter logo image of Saint Marie Rivier pointing to the horizon, posed a challenge to go further, maybe on this issue and its concern.

From the Call of Moses in the burning bush, she spoke of the increasing gap between the poor and the rich and other social issues of injustices that caused such division. The poor and marginalized brothers and sisters are the most vulnerable in the issue of care for creation. The urgent challenge to protect our common home is to bring the whole human family together to see a sustainable and integral development.

She also discussed saliently the other realities which are interconnected, thus it is called Integral Ecology. These realities are: 

Social Ecology –  Economic Ecology -Environmental Ecology – Cultural Ecology – Daily life Ecology or Human Ecology.

Her talk helped to raise our awareness of the urgent need to take a greater interest in the question of integral ecology. A strong call to personal responsibility, to be aware that everything in our world is inter-connected.

Daughters of Marie Rivier, the Woman Apostle how can we maintain a special concern for the poorest and for our planet?

S. Sabine D.
Nemi, 08.27.23

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