The 1st Sunday of this Season of Creation called us to humility before the vast and intricate web of Creation and laid out before us some of the costs of discipleship to Christ in this time of urgent global crisis.
The complex,
integral ecological crisis confronting us in these times bears witness to
humanity’s lack of humility in relating to the rest of Creation, our attitude
of domination toward nature and the lack of attention to the challenging
dimensions of discipleship to Christ.
The punishing
natural consequences of those failures – the more frequent and severe fires,
floods, and many other impacts of the warming of the planet – threaten the
future of life on Earth in all its dimensions.
Today’s
liturgy assures us of God’s readiness to forgive us and to welcome our
conversion while warning us of the punishing natural consequences of sinful
values and actions so visible in the sufferings of the crucified Christ. In
these times we need to see them as well in the crucifying suffering of Earth
and of the poor.
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