The root of all evil, as we know, is sin which from its first appearance has disrupted our communion with God, with others and with creation itself, to which we are linked in a particular way by our body. This rupture of communion with God likewise undermines our harmonious relationship with the environment in which we are called to live; so the garden has become a wilderness. Sin leads man to consider himself the God of creation, to see himself as its absolute master and to use it not for the purpose willed by the Creator, but for his own interests. Creation urgently needs the revelation of the children of God, who have been made “a new creation”. For “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come. Indeed, by virtue of their being revealed, creation itself can celebrate, opening itself to a new heaven and a new earth. The path to Easter demands that we renew our faces and hearts as Christians through repentance, conversion and forgiveness, so as to live fully the abundant grace of the paschal mystery.
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