[San Guillermo Parish, Pasig City] Creation, connected with Christ crucified

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MARCH 31 - “One of the big issues we have to face in our time is that of the environment: the destruction of God’s creation.”
This was revealed by Fr. John Leydon, MSSC, pastor of Our Lady of Remedies Parish, Malate, Manila, in a recollection given to the Clergy of the Diocese of Pasig last March 31.
Dr. Leydon indicated that something catastrophic will happen in the next 50 years unless people change their ways.
Unfortunately, people do not regard this issue as connected with their faith in Jesus Christ crucified.
“Unlike the people of indigenous culture who are connected to the elements and all beings and there is a sense of the Sacred in creation all around them, we have lost that connectedness; nature for us is just a bunch of objects to be processed for human use. We have lost our sense of the Sacred in God’s creation. Worse, we have labeled it “progress” and “development.”
Fr. Leydon connected creation with the Paschal Mystery. “Jesus is the second person of the Trinity, but he is also the flowering of God’s creation. The modern story of creation tells us of a single unfinished event from energy to matter, to the first life cell, to multicellular life, to humanity. Jesus emerges out of this process not as an individual human being but as representing all of humanity and all of creation.”

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Posted By josephdream to San Guillermo Parish, Pasig City at 4/04/2009 01:17:00 AM