Rediscovering the value of fragility and vulnerability

In recent years, almost all organizations, agencies of both government and non-government, groups and even congregations were inspired by the call of the Church through Pope Franscis on the promotion of care and advocacy for Mother Earth, a Laudato Sí commitment.

Indeed, we are embarked on an earth of fragility and vulnerability. True to the fact, many took this claim seriously, created movements with collective concerns as advocates. The United Nations has evolved more of its goals for the care of the earth, turning most of its contributions to Climate Actions.

How can we truly render justice to this call and our response as responsibly as possible?

As Dominicans in the South of our dear Philippines, we seek ways to promote  this urgency, to help heal the land through its process,  if people do care to make it happen.  Indeed, we take humble steps by starting it with children, youth and families along with some committed persons in our very workplace and communities.Each of the families of this earth we walk on, is with implied responsibility to  its care!

There were various initiatives that our members have committed to promote this environmental care and eventually turns into care for the communities! As many have heard of this saying: “nature can live without humans, but hiumans cannot live without nature”. The children and youth we work with, have taken this passage seriously as it was in the beginning.  Genesis chapter 1 is a reminder of that paradise, lost by disobedience, that voice permeates on us: to bring to order again (as God once pronounced: barah!) the chaotic reverse reality we live in, to help create and recreate the world. Indeed, we beckon to the creation story, to continue  sowing seeds of goodness and peace, of kindness and order, wherever we are.

God has shown us in Pentateuch, we all are called to liv this dignity as children of God: to obey takes precedence, to toil, care, share and to give thanks as we see that everything is good. This will help us understand our mission as pilgrims on the earth, as journeyers like the rest of humanity. Rediscovering the value of our fragility will wake us up on what needs to be done by each of us, that truly, we all are vulnerable, waiting to be helped, to be redeemed from our own vices and stubborness. It is about time for us to rediscover our mission around our neighborhood, our workplaces and even in our own communities.

HELP SAVE THE EARTH. TOGETHER, WE WILL THRIVE.

* Nini Rebollos in Zamboanga City, Philippines