1. April 2013

2. ICWG Integrity of Creation Working Group JPIC Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Commission USG/UISG Union of Superiors General International Union of Superiors General 2006 -

3. Purpose Statement The purpose of the Integrity of Creation Working Group is to increase awareness, provide informed reflections and suggest actions concerning the environment. Within the networking possibilities of the JPIC Promoters in Rome, the members are able to provide formation resources, encourage religious congregations to be proclaimers of an ecological dimension to our faith, share contributions, and publicize initiatives that religious congregations are continuing to make for the care of creation.

4. Integrity of Creation Survey November 2008 http://ecoreligious.wikispaces.com http://ecoreligious.wikispaces.com The Earth Community http://jpicformation.wikispaces.com/ENIntegrity_of_Creation

5. Within the networking possibilities of the JPIC Promoters in Rome, the members are able to provide formation resources, encourage religious congregations to be proclaimers of an ecological dimension to our faith, share contributions, and publicize initiatives that religious congregations are continuing to make for the care of creation.

6. JP II ‘Eco-conversion’

7. ‘ You have only to ask the cattle, for them to instruct you, and the birds of the sky, for them to inform you. The creeping things of the earth will give you lessons, and the fish of the sea provide you with an explanation: There is not one such creature but will know that the hand of God has arranged things like this!’ Job 12: 7-9

8. Six amazing facts about creation…. Earth is not the centre of the universe God creates in an evolutionary and emergent way Man evolved like the rest We are genetically related to every other creature on the earth Creation is not complete Change is central to creation

9. 1. Eco-justice?

10. 2. God is infinitely compassionate ‘……No sparrow falls to the ground without your heavenly Father knowing it’ (Mt 10:29)

11. 3. God from whom all creation comes and in whom all creation is reconciled ‘in him were created all things in heaven and on earth; everything visible and everything invisible, ….all things were created through him and for him. Before anything was created, he existed, and he holds all things in unity….. he was the first to be born from the dead…. because God wanted all perfection to be found in him and all things to be reconciled through him and for him, all things in heaven and all things on earth.’ Colossians 1: 15-20

12. 4. ‘God, the Creator and Giver of all good gifts.’ (Sp.Exx 316). ‘Before the world was made we were chosen to live in love in God’s presence by praising, reverencing and serving him in and through his creation…..’ (Sp.Exx 23)

13. The current ecological crisis is not fundamentally economic, or political, it is spiritual – a matter of right relationships. ‘In all our deliberations we must be mindful of the impact of our decisions on the seven generations to follow ours’ (The Great Law of the Six Nations Leagues of the Iroquois) 5. Inter-generational justice Frederick Frank

14. Pope Francis – Inaugural Mass, 19 th March 2013 ‘Let us be custodians of Creation, of God’s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another, of the environment; let us not allow the signs of destruction and death to be part of the journey of our world. Caring, protecting demands goodness and calls for a certain tenderness.’

15. Our Creator God who is radically compassionate towards all things