But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Matthew 15:9
"Maui’s fires and deaths, fueled by a destructive hurricane called Dora,
have created a deadly tinderbox that has decimated the island 
in the
South Pacific.
It is rated by the experts as the worst the island has
ever experienced. Both President Joe Biden and Pope Francis have declared the current weather conditions a climate emergency.
The climate crisis, including Maui’s catastrophe, elicits calls for
Sunday sacredness. These calls are intensifying at an alarming rate.
Increasingly, Sunday sacredness is being promoted as the panacea for the
ever-developing climate crisis.
Francis insists: “On Sunday, our participation in the Eucharist has
special importance. Sunday, like the Jewish Sabbath, is meant to be a
day which heals our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others,
and with the world. Sunday is the day of the Resurrection, the “first
day” of the new creation, whose first fruits are the Lord’s risen
humanity, the pledge of the final transfiguration of all created
reality. It also proclaims “man’s eternal rest in God” (Laudato SI’,
sec. 237)."
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