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Ao refletirmos sobre a M\u00e3e Terra, reconhecemos o planeta como um sistema \u00fanico, complexo e interconectado.&nbsp;<br>A M\u00e3e Terra fornece os recursos fundamentais essenciais para toda a vida: um fluxo cont\u00ednuo de energia; \u00e1gua l\u00edquida; uma atmosfera com gases vitais; e compostos org\u00e2nicos, nutrientes e ingredientes qu\u00edmicos essenciais.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A revolu\u00e7\u00e3o franciscana reside na cren\u00e7a de que a Terra sustenta e governa. O pensamento b\u00edblico anterior a Francisco frequentemente afirmava que os seres humanos deviam dominar a Terra, mas ele foi o primeiro a desafiar essa ideia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N\u00e3o \u00e9 miss\u00e3o dos seres humanos controlar, dominar, desfigurar, destruir ou descartar tudo o que consideramos \u00fatil no mundo natural. Somos chamados por Deus \u2014 e por S\u00e3o Francisco \u2014 a reconhecer o nosso lugar como co-criaturas e companheiros de viagem da M\u00e3e Terra, que, em \u00faltima an\u00e1lise, nos fornece tudo o que precisamos para sobreviver.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quando aceitamos a nossa identidade como criaturas dependentes e interdependentes; quando reconhecemos que a M\u00e3e Terra e toda a cria\u00e7\u00e3o s\u00e3o dotadas de personalidade e capacidade de agir; e quando abrimos as nossas vidas a um processo cont\u00ednuo de convers\u00e3o ecol\u00f3gica, encontramos-nos no caminho para a sabedoria aut\u00eantica \u2014 uma sabedoria que \u00e9 profundamente espiritual.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Para S\u00e3o Francisco, este caminho relacional da sabedoria, no qual todos os membros da cria\u00e7\u00e3o s\u00e3o reconhecidos como irm\u00e3os e irm\u00e3s, \u00e9 o \u00fanico caminho capaz de restaurar a rela\u00e7\u00e3o correta e a plena comunh\u00e3o com Deus, uns com os outros e com toda a cria\u00e7\u00e3o. \u00c0 medida que seguimos este caminho, a convers\u00e3o ecol\u00f3gica enra\u00edza-se em n\u00f3s e tornamo-nos capazes de reconhecer o \u00abgrito da terra, o grito dos pobres\u00bb (<em>Laudato Si\u2019<\/em>, 49) \u2014 e a nossa responsabilidade de responder.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oito s\u00e9culos depois, para a Franciscans International, esta responsabilidade inclui assumir a Justi\u00e7a Ambiental como um dos pilares do nosso trabalho nas Na\u00e7\u00f5es Unidas. A compreens\u00e3o de que estamos interligados com a natureza tem sustentado a defesa franciscana, primeiro pelo reconhecimento e agora pela implementa\u00e7\u00e3o do direito humano a um ambiente saud\u00e1vel. De muitas maneiras, os diferentes elementos desse direito \u2014 ar e \u00e1gua limpos, um clima est\u00e1vel, etc. \u2014 refletem as nuances louvadas por S\u00e3o Francisco no C\u00e2ntico das Criaturas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rejeitar a ideia de que o mundo natural existe para ser explorado traduz\u2011se na oposi\u00e7\u00e3o franciscana \u00e0 gan\u00e2ncia corporativa, que se tornou uma das principais causas da degrada\u00e7\u00e3o ambiental, e no nosso trabalho para consagrar regulamenta\u00e7\u00f5es para empresas transnacionais no direito internacional dos direitos humanos. A jusante disso, os franciscanos defendem a prote\u00e7\u00e3o dos Povos Ind\u00edgenas e das comunidades marginalizadas cujas terras tradicionais est\u00e3o amea\u00e7adas e cujos meios de subsist\u00eancia s\u00e3o destru\u00eddos em nome do desenvolvimento e do crescimento econ\u00f3mico.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hoje, enquanto a humanidade leva o clima ao seu ponto de rutura, os debates globais sobre pol\u00edticas e prote\u00e7\u00e3o ambiental s\u00e3o precisamente o espa\u00e7o onde o nosso compromisso franciscano com o cuidado da cria\u00e7\u00e3o e a defesa dos direitos humanos se cruzam \u2014 e onde a nossa voz precisa de ser ouvida.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Que a nossa Irm\u00e3, a M\u00e3e Terra, nos ensine o caminho da sabedoria, da unidade e da harmonia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Por Blair Matheson TSSF, Diretor Executivo da Franciscans International<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-small-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Esta \u00e9 uma tradu\u00e7\u00e3o autom\u00e1tica. Pedimos desculpa por quaisquer erros que possam ter ocorrido como resultado. Em caso de diverg\u00eancia, \u00e9 a vers\u00e3o inglesa que faz f\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLouvado sejas, meu Senhor, por nossa Irm\u00e3, a M\u00e3e Terra, que nos sustenta e governa,produzindo frutos variados com flores coloridas &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":959,"template":"","class_list":["post-958","reflection","type-reflection","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Irm\u00e3 M\u00e3e Terra e o Apelo \u00e0 Convers\u00e3o Ecol\u00f3gica - Franciscans International (PT)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/franciscansinternational.org\/pt\/reflection\/irma-mae-terra-e-o-apelo-a-conversao-ecologica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pt_PT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Irm\u00e3 M\u00e3e Terra e o Apelo \u00e0 Convers\u00e3o Ecol\u00f3gica - 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