Sunday, March 12, 2017

On the Streets of Babylon: Eco- Spirituality Rampant

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,... 
Come out of her, my people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4
 
There seems to be some "Eco-Spirituality" rampant on the Streets of Babylon....

"The conference's theme, "A Call for Global Ecological Conversion," used Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" and his papal bull, Misericordia Vultus, which introduced the Holy Year of Mercy, as spiritual frameworks in exploring issues related to the
environment and climate change.

Participants said the message of caring for the Earth, countering climate change and helping communities that global warming affects most will continue beyond the five-day Asia-Oceania Meeting of Religious, known by its acronym, AMOR.

"By doing this, we have done something for the whole Catholic church and the church in Myanmar," Sr. Margaret Maung, president of the Catholic Religious Conference. "By the presentations and the table sharing and interacting, we came to know each other and the reality of the church, and that we are one with the Earth and the strengths and weaknesses of the environment and climate change."

In subsequent days, participants explored more deeply the meaning of eco-spirituality .... that celebrates "contemplative consciousness" and "ecological consciousness" understood as "awareness and sensitivity to the interconnectedness of all beings and things on Earth," as Claretian Fr. Samuel Canilang."
NationalCatholicReporter