The Eucharist and Catholic Social Teaching, Part 7: Fruit of the Earth and Work of Human Hands - Eucharist as Integral Ecology

Emmanuel Katongole highlights the connections between Eucharist and ecology with a view of making two interconnected claims, namely that an adequate understanding of the Eucharist intensifies and shapes the Christian responsibility for the care of Our Common Home, and that efforts for the care of our Common home are Eucharistic in more than a symbolic sense. They are truly a sacrament - sign and reality - of God’s love for the earth. Drawing from the work of Bethany Land Institute in Uganda, he displays the dynamic relationship between these two claims.

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