October 16, 2018

Created to Serve and Preserve Earth

Creation Sixth Day by Caroline Street © Used with permission www.carolinestreetart.com

Elaine Wainwright rsm reads the very familiar Genesis 2 text of the creation showing humanity’s responsibility to serve and preserve the Earth community.

Sr Elaine writes: ‘And while the text emphasises the creation of the human couple, it cannot be separated from the whole emergence of the heavens and earth and all living beings into which we are drawn as readers and listeners. This entire narrative of creation invites us into a material world, a created world, a world in which divine creativity is forever at work in the unfolding of the universe'.

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