Introduction to the Special Issue: Caring for Creation – 800 Years of the Canticle of the Creatures To Care, to Serve, to Love: The Legacy of a Life Experience
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Eight centuries after its composition, Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Creatures has lost none of its theological potency or its subversive power. In a time marked by the devastation of the Earth, technological dehumanization, and spiritual disenchantment, the voice of the Poverello of Assisi resounds with renewed clarity: to love the world is to care for it, and to care for it is to serve it, not to dominate it.
This song does not arise from the comfort of success or from an aesthetic contemplation of nature. It emerges from suffering, from illness, from abandonment; it arises from the wounded flesh of a man reconciled with the whole of creation. In this sense, it is not merely a religious poem, but a radical theological proclamation: everything that exists is worthy of love and can only be truly understood through the logic of care.
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