Lent's Carbon Fast Calendar

Are you looking for ways to change your lifestyle holistically? We are a people with heart, mind, body, and Spirit.  We can become more grounded in being by intentionally caring for all these dimensions.  Reflecting on Laudato Si' teachings is about connecting with these dimensions. This to understand our relationship with nature, people, and the world, and how the quality of relationships with these affects us.  We live with the knowledge and wisdom that help us do what we are inspired to do, and a heart that cares, gives compassion, connects us with our emotions, and our body that reminds us that we are vulnerable.  In this vulnerability, there are ways that we need to keep this physical body strong with organic food, protection from physical danger, harmful chemicals, and even protection or practice to be healed from a verbally violent environment.  We need clean water, air, and quiet surroundings.  Without awareness of our integral ecology, we can forget that we are part of nature.  Mother nature is feeding us.  This is why we need to be good stewards of nature.

You may have a Lenten practice such as Stations of the Cross, reading a spiritual book, gathering in community to pray for specific intentions using some devotional prayer, etc.  Knowing the socio-ecological crisis we are experiencing in this time of history, we can make this Lent meaningful by intentionally using the Laudato Si' teachings into our daily practice.  We can learn something new.  It can be an additional virtue to our sustainable lifestyle.  It can be learning about how the forest is an important part of biodiversity and life.  We can take actions to care for each other, our neighborhood, and our environment.  

We invite you to create a space for creation.  This space will be to practice a healthy and ethically conscious lifestyle that respects not only the pocket in the present moment but the most vulnerable.  The vulnerable members of our society include the youth who will carry the future forward, the nature that holds the key to keeping everything alive on this earth, the most underprivileged people given the lack of resources, who are part of our cultural heritage, humanity and diversity, and the indigenous people who are the caretakers of the 80% of the nature's biodiversity.  Most of these members of our creation are not normally part of the conversations in the past but slowly taking the center stage due to natural disasters, the distress of the socio-ecological reality on the youth, the underprivileged people as being the main recipient of the impact of natural disasters and daily life's struggles (e.g. lack of air-condition during the summer, lack of heating system during winter, food insecurity, meaningful jobs, etc.)

This is an invitation to check out our Lent's Carbon Fast calendar here.

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Talking Tree Farm's in Schertz, Texas makes use of organic farming.  Its founder, Sylvain is building a "Fruit Forest."  He use regenerative farming, an agro-technology without harmful chemicals from pesticides and industrial fertilizers.  He leaves the soil intact to keep the healthy microbes in the soil.  Though he does not till the soil for microbes, he aerates his soil to let the air in. He makes use of natural way to protect and grow crops and trees using the insects, fungi, and microbes.