Around The Diocese For Dec. 4
How should we treat the environment?
Father Eugene Schmitt writes in the bulletin at St. Raphael Parish in Dubois and St. Peter Celestine Parish in Celestine, “We fulfill God’s commission with regard to creation when we care for the earth, with its biological laws, its variety of species, its natural beauty, and its dwindling resources, as a living space and preserve it, so that future generations also can live well on earth.
“In the book of Genesis, God says, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth’ (Gen 1:28).
“Having ‘dominion over the earth’ does not mean having an absolute right to dispose arbitrarily of animate and inanimate nature, animals and plants. Because man is created in God’s image, he should care for God’s creation as a shepherd and steward.
“For the first book of the Bible also says, ‘The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it’ (Gen 2:15).
“Taken from Catechism of the Catholic Church”
Happy Birthday!
Father Paul Ferguson, pastor at Holy Redeemer Parish, Evansville, celebrates his birthday Dec. 11.
Deacon Earl Ruppel, pastoral life coordinator at St. Thomas Parish, Vincennes, celebrates his birthday Dec. 16.
Deacon anniversary
Deacon Thomas Lambert, St. Clement Parish, Boonville, was ordained Dec. 12, 1992.
Please send information for AROUND THE DIOCESE to Mary Ann Hughes, The Message, P.O. Box 4169, Evansville, IN 47724. The e-mail address is mhughes@evdio.org.
