The gift of the Holy Spirit renews the earth. The Psalmist says: \u201cYou send forth your Spirit\u201d\u00a6 and you renew the face of the earth\u201d\u009d (Ps 103:30). The account of the birth of the Church in the Acts of the Apostles is significantly linked to this Psalm, which is a great hymn of praise to God the Creator. The Holy Spirit whom Christ sent from the Father, and the Creator Spirit who gives life to all things, are one and the same. Respect for creation, then, is a requirement of our faith: the \u201cgarden\u201d\u009d in which we live is not entrusted to us to be exploited, but rather to be cultivated and tended with respect (cf. Gen 2:15). Yet this is possible only if Adam \u201d\u201c the man formed from the earth \u201d\u201c allows himself in turn to be renewed by the Holy Spirit, only if he allows himself to be re-formed by the Father on the model of Christ, the new Adam. In this way, renewed by the Spirit of God, we will indeed be able to experience the freedom of the sons and daughters, in harmony with all creation. In every creature we will be able to see reflected the glory of the Creator, as another Psalm says: \u201cHow great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!\u201d\u009d (Ps 8:2, 10).<\/p>\n