The ecological crisis questions us not only about what we do, but even more about who we are. We must act, but “how are we to act”? It is important to be, but “how to be”? It is urgent to begin a profound re-evaluation of our ways of seeing, feeling, thinking, believing, being and living in all areas of life.

We need new ways of being a church, a church perhaps more like the early church in Jerusalem, where prayer, eucharistic celebration and communal meals took place in the houses and the “laity” with their various charisms took responsibility for pastoral needs and for the proclamation of the Gospel.