An Ethic for our Environment: Becoming a Saint Today

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An Ethic for our Environment Becoming a Saint
Today

• Fifth Level of Awareness

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Come Holy Spirit !

• Replace the tension within us with a holy
  relaxation.
• Replace the turbulence within us with a sacred
  calm.
• Replace the anxiety within us with a quiet
  confidence.
• Replace the fear within us with a strong faith.
• Replace the bitterness within us with the
  sweetness of grace.
• Replace the darkness within us with a gentle
  light.
• Replace the coldness within us with a loving
  warmth.
• Replace the night within us with your light.
• Replace the winter within us with your spring.

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Come Holy Spirit !

• Straighten our crookedness. Fill our emptiness.
• Dull the edge of our pride. Sharpen the edge of
  our humility.
• Light the fire our love. Quench the flames of our
  lust.
• Let us see ourselves as you see us, that we may
  see you as you have promised and be fortunate
  according to your word.
• Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall
  God.

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• Any relation between the Christian aspiration
  call to sainthood and ecology
• How does an Energy Based Theology inform the
  Christian quest for holiness for sainthood.

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Presuppositions

• Holiness wholeness sainthood perfection.
• Holistic i.e. not only the head or the tale but
  the whole.

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5th major level of Awareness!

• The others are
• A of existing energies, (six forms Physical,
  Human, Uncreated E of God, E of the Holy Angel, E
  of the saints, of the devil) that filled our
  environment (environment not reducible to
  ecology)
• A that our environment is an E nexus, a synergism
  of synergies.
• A of E in our evolving environment an evolution
  ad-intra synergy (Trinity) and ad-extra synergy (
  Creation).
• A of the environmental crisis incumbent
  dangers posed by the ozone crisis, AIDS and New
  Age Movement ( a solution-problem).

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5th Level of A our Respons-ibility

• A of our responsibility becoming saints
  today.
• A 3 step method ( scholasticism at work?)
• 1. What does it mean to become a saint today?
  2.Why is so difficult to become a saint today in
  our environment? 3. How do we become a saint
  today, then, in our environment? 122.

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Structure of the 5th Level of A

• Becoming a Saint Today one Environment, one
  salvation
• why it is difficult to become a saint today
• How to become a St today in our Env.
• Through the practice of theological and cardinal
  virtues
• Through the intensification of virtues through
  prayer

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Becoming a saint today

• Saint one who has served heroically God and the
  neighbors. But in the present, any true good
  Christian. I.e. How to be a saint today?
  equals to how to be a truly good Christian
  today?

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Becoming a saint today

• Heaven a Dream Home or Family for all energies
  and personal energy-beings, sanctified,
  familized, energized by Gods Uncreated Energies

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Becoming a saint today

• Hell a pit for various energies and personal
  energy beings, forever unsanctifiable,
  unfamilizable

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Becoming a saint today implies

• No to fragmentation and dualism yes to
  holism No longer can we remain in a dualist
  worldview we have only one salvation , one
  restoration, one healing, one transformation, one
  transfiguration, one Heavenization, one
  Familization, one sanctification, one
  divinization, or one Divine Energization in our
  one and only one cosmos, universe, milieu, or
  environment. 122.

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Y difficult to become a saint in our Environment

• Environment penetrated with diabolic Energies
  bathing in contaminated environment
• Pervert subhuman energies we get hit everywhere
  and from everywhere. (Theology of Hope!!!)
• Depletion and dissipation of Saintly Energies
• Ostracization of Angelic energies
• Abuse of the Material Energies (consumerism)
• Inactivation of the Divine Uncreated Energies
• Disorientation of our ordinary human energies.

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How to become a saint

• Through the practice of
• Theological virtues
• Faith
• Hope
• Charity
• Cardinal virtues
• Prudence
• Justice
• Temperance
• Fortitude

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How to become a saint

• Through the Intensification of the virtues
  through prayer that is to activate dormant UDE.
• Two kinds of activations
• Individual
• collective.

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Individual Activation of UDE

• Constant Repentance - Daily Shower - Freeing
  ourselves from diabolic oppression
• Fast food (brief prayer, ejaculatory prayers) -
  Fasting Taking Divine Energy Rich Food (Holy
  communion)
• Developing a deep authentic relationship with God
  Adoration - Rosary - Getting the right personal
  education or knowledge of the Truth
• Work a little less, pray a little more (??).

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Collective Activation of UDE

• Continuing education
• Collective Prayer meetings
• Develop an authentic friendship with other
  Christians ( ecumenism).
• Communion with the Holy Angels and Saints (how?)?
• Eucharist as way to unite our suffering energies
  with Christ.

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Some Considerations

• Qi Theology an effort to reconnect theology and
  spirituality to close the gap of a too
  abstractive way of theologizing.
• Sainthood a universal call. Be holy as your
  heavenly Father is Holy. An imitation of the HF
  in whose image and likeness humans are created.

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Some Considerations

• A tendency to privatize the call it is not only
  a Christian call it is valid for non-Christians
  alike. In John Hicks theory of pluralism
  (sainthood not necessarily related to Jesus
  Christ). Moreover, there are so called Pagan
  Saints of the OT Abraham, Moses, Elijah, etc.

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the criteria for sainthood

• The awareness of our environment requires
  extended criteria for sainthood.

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• Awareness of new waves of theologies, of
  expression of the quest for sainthood.
• Movies ecological movies (Avatar, An
  inconvenient Truth, Addicted to Plastic, the Last
  Mountain, the Lorax, etc.
• Books
• TV programs and channels (The Planet, National
  Geographic, Disovery

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• The New and the old and the Old and the New
• An evolving understanding of Environment from
  Environment as a Nexus of Energies to
  Environment as Ecology.