“The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius are built around our gradual transformation into a ‘falling in love with God’ by encountering Him in our hearts as the seat of our desires and loves. It is where the conversion of consciousness occurs as St. Paul describes it. We are mirrors and we are being transformed by what is reflected in us in the experience of prayer. But our efforts do not bring it about. Only grace can do it, but we must be open to it. Even opening ourselves to it as is grace.”

(~ Ted Keating, SM, Spirituality and Consciousness: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ [Part 1], June 17, 2024))

“The global community has an ethical and moral obligation to support Pacific Island countries to adapt to climate change. We are at a critical time in our fight for climate resilience, especially in the Pacific which is facing existential threats. Put simply, it is now or never. The real challenge for the world is to see with their eyes, and listen with their ears, to those on the frontlines of climate change. Listen, see, then act, and act now before it is too late.”

(~ Francois Grossin, SM, Pacific: Climate-and-Debt-Crises, June 5, 2023)

“There has been a tragic rise in the number of migrants seeking to flee from the growing poverty caused by environmental degradation. They are not recognized by international conventions as refugees; they bear the loss of the lives they have left behind, without enjoying any legal protection whatsoever. Sadly, there is widespread indifference to such suffering, which is even now taking place throughout our world. Our lack of response to these tragedies involving our brothers and sisters points to the loss of that sense of responsibility for our fellow men and women upon which all civil society is founded.”

(~ Pope Francis, I have observed…. I know… I will deliver (Reflection for 2022 World Day of Migrants and Refugees), September 19, 2022)