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May you be praised, my Lord, for sister water, who is very useful and humble, precious and chaste. . .
May you be praised, my Lord, for sister earth, our mother, who bears and feeds us, and produces the variety of fruits and dappled flowers and grasses. . .
If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit?
If water springing up from the earth symbolizes life…
Whoever teaches must become "all things to all men" (1 Cor 9:22), to win everyone to Christ. . . .
Earthly peace is the image and fruit of the peace of Christ, the messianic "Prince of Peace."
Every preceding phrase and sentence is from the Catholic Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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