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Ferry Sutrisna Widjaja
Selamat Paskah bagi yang merayakan. Tahun ini merayakan Paskah bagi saya adalah bangkit dan berubah dari spiritualitas yang membawa kematian kepada spiritualitas yang menghidupkan. Paskah yang artinya “lewat” adalah melewati pola kehidupan yang merusak dan masuk ke pola kehidupan yang menyelamatkan. Alam semesta diciptakan selama 15 milyar tahun oleh Allah Sang Pencipta dan proses penciptaan masih berjalan terus seperti kehidupan terus berlangsung karena Allah Sang Pencipta masih memberi kehidupan. Saya sharingkan beberapa kutipan dari Thomas Berry yang mengajak kita untuk mencintai, menghormati, merawat kehidupan yang diciptakan Allah secara sangat luar biasa.
Salam,
Ferry sw
Spiritualitas Ekologi Bersama Thomas Berry
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Thomas Berry (9 Nov 1914 – 1 June 2009) was a Catholic Priest of the Passionist Order (CP), a cultural historian and ecotheologian (although cosmologist and geologian or Earth Scholar were his preferred descriptor). He studied Chinese culture, India, and Native American. He founded and directed Riverdale Center of Religious Research in Riverdale, New York, (1970-1995). He wrote many books including The Dream of the Earth (1988), Befriending the Earth with Thomas Clarke (1991), The Universe Story From The Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era, A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos with Brian Swimme (1992), and The Great Work : Our Way into the Future (1999). |
Every existence is a mode of divine presence.
(Befriending the Earth, p.19)
In the universe to be is to be different.
(Universe Story, p.74)
Everything in the universe is genetically cousin to everything else.
There is literally one family, one bonding in the universe,
because everything is descended from the same source.
(Befriending the Earth, p.14)
The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong.
To become alienated from this community
is to become destitute in all that makes us human.
To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.
(Dream of the Earth, p.81)
Why do we have such a wonderful sense of God ?
Because we live in such a gorgeous world.
We wonder at the magnificence
of whatever it is that brought the world into being.
This leads to a sense of adoration.
We have a sense of immense gratitude
that we participate in such a beautiful world.
This adoration, this gratitude, we call religion.
Now, however,as our outer world is diminished,
our inner world is dried up.
(Befriending the Earth p.9)
The human community and the natural world
will go into the future as a single sacred community
or we will both perish in the desert.
(Befriending the Earth p.43)
To preserve the natural world
as the primary revelation of the divine
must be the basic concern of religion.
(Universe Story p.243)