Day 20 Advent Reflection

“Sustainability Covenant (adopted by the Marist General Administration on July 19, 2022) is founded on three Principles: …, Incarnational, and Marian.
“Our Marist covenant is Incarnational. It celebrates God-with-us in the very matter of our earthly dwelling. Jesus Christ, the embodiment of life and love Divine, raises the web of creation into a new realm. Immersed into this new realm by our baptism we labor with all creation to ‘bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.’ (Eph. 1:10)
As Marists our sustainability covenant will be enfleshed and lived out through the Spirit of the Society of Mary. Marists are called to be Mary, to think, judge, feel and act as her. Mary nurtured the vulnerable Incarnate Son of God at Nazareth and embraced his dead body at the foot of the cross; she was at the heart of the Church when the Spirit was poured out at Pentecost. Empowered by this same Spirit we are called to care for the most vulnerable, and the poor of our common home who are always the first to be affected by our ecological crisis. (Laudato Si’ 241)”

(~ Sustainability Covenant by Marist Ecological Commission coordinated by Fr. Ben McKenna, SM)

He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.