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"Madrid archdiocese urges Catholics to use Lent for ‘ecological conversion’"
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"The Archdiocese of Madrid, Spain, has called local Catholics to an ecological conversion during the period of fasting and penitence leading up to Easter.
Days before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday – which this year fell on March 6 – Cardinal Carlos Osoro’s diocese published a Lenten 'itinerary' offering thoughts and resolutions for each day in a self-proclaimed answer to Pope Francis’ environmental challenge in favor of the 'common home.'
Among other things, it heavily promotes the United Nations’ SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), which call for universal 'sexual health' and redistribution of goods.
The 63-page PDF document published by the archdiocese’s Vicariate for Integral Human Development and Innovation is available online. It includes numerous quotes from the 'ecological encyclical' Laudato si’ and other texts, mostly authored by Pope Francis...
For Catholics, Lent is a time to remember that we shall all return to dust but that Christ, the only Son of God, laid down His life in atonement for our sins and for our salvation, making us capable of becoming children of the Father through baptism and of answering His redeeming grace in order to obtain eternal life with God in heaven...
For the six weeks of Lent and Holy Week, the Archdiocese of Madrid suggests that Catholics meditate and act on successive themes: 'pollution and climate change,' 'the water issue,' 'loss of biodiversity,' 'deterioration of the quality of human life and social degradation,' 'the weakness of reactions' and 'diversity of opinions.'...
Throughout the Archdiocese of Madrid’s Lenten itinerary, the main spiritual lecture offered to Catholics is Laudato si’ in order to change 'thought, politics, education, lifestyle and spirituality' in the face of the new 'technocratic paradigm.' This lofty ideal was invoked to incite Catholics on the Thursday of the first week of Lent to make these resolutions: avoid wasting energy, use public transport, buy 'class A' electric appliances, use utility companies that guarantee their reliance on 'clean and renewable energy.'
The next day, March 8, was International Women’s Day. Rather than focusing on the first Friday in Lent, the itinerary suggests 'fasting for sister-Mother Earth' and 'helping to reduce the culture of violence and domination over women and against the whole of Creation.' This blends in well with traditional pagan spirituality that equates the earth with femininity and the goddess of fertility.
How will the Catholics of Madrid avoid the contamination of rivers and seas by industries and keep riversides free from toxic offal? These are just some of the 'commitments' suggested. More readily available to city dwellers are the promise to 'inform oneself about existing campaigns and platforms against climate change' and to 'recognize human impact on the acceleration of climate change...'...
But Catholics are also required to reduce their 'hydraulic impact' by following official suggestions about the length of showers or collecting and reusing the water that runs while waiting for it to warm up...
Here, 'fasting' becomes 'fasting from plastics' or from bottled water, or from 'fake news' or from 'prejudice.'"
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