WRAPPING UP CREATION17 SEPTEMBER 2013

OUR PRAYER

St. Robert Bellarmine, S.J.(1542-162)

O God, who adorned the Bishop Saint Robert Bellarmine with

wonderful learning and virtue to vindicate the faith of your Church,

grant, through his intercession, that in the integrity of that same faith your people may always find joy.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

SOME FINAL POINTS ON GEN. 1-2:3 AND 2:4-25• Concerning God

• God is a creator. That is, for God to really be God, God has to be helping things to be.

• If God creates it, it is good.• Concerning Creation

• All creation is good!• The world around us is the way we see God; God leaves

God’s “fingerprints” on the world.• Concerning Humankind/Us

• God makes all human beings in God’s image and likeness.• God invites all human beings to be co-creators, partners in

creation.

FOR HOMEWORK• Read Genesis 3:1-24.

• Be prepared for a quiz tomorrow.