In 1224 St Francis created the Canticle of the Creatures. A ’praise’ to the beauty of creation. 800 years later we are all (believers and non-believers alike) engaged in understanding, fighting, opposing a climate change that frightens us but which we continue to cause.
St Francis merely observed the magnificence of nature, we take many initiatives to change it.
From the Canticle onwards, the sun, the stars, the water, the earth are a source of inspiration for poets, musicians, writers. Let us try for once, for the time of a performance, to be ’still’, to do no harm to ’creation’, and to retrace with music and poetry the beauty that surrounds us, that is life. Let us try to look at our planet, today, with the words of Francis.

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