The depredation of the planet is news every day. Large corporations exploit natural resources without limit, without seeing beyond his greed, without thinking about the future, or about others. “Those who have more power, hoard; and the 15% of the richest hoard 80% of the world’s resources,” revealed the mtro. Arturo Gonzalez Gonzalez, S.J.director of the Training and Accompaniment Center for Integral Development (CFADI) of IBERO Puebla.
From Ignatian spirituality, what matters “is the care of all beings of creation […] with a relationship with the transcendent”, pointed out Arturo González, understanding him as God or as everyone decides to call him. This ideology asks people to be present in life; live in congruence with your most precious values; know what your purpose is and live accordingly.
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According to Saint Ignatius, “human beings are not isolated from others and what exists in the world. Therefore, he must live in harmony with himself, with others, but also with everything that surrounds him: animals and nature.
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Proposed that “The world is good and God created it for us, for a human project”. Hence the importance of knowing how to respect the environment and not abuse natural resources, which are finite. Ignatian spirituality is summed up in “living loving and serving always more” and it should lead to finding the transcendent in all things.
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in the talk Laudato si and Ignatian spiritualityGonzález González, SJ also spoke about the technological paradigm and how it is assumed as a synonym of “progress and transcendence”. However, he exploits natural resources as if they were infinite, as well as being the “dominant colonizer of minds”. This not only conditions the functioning of society and people’s lives, it has also generated a serious environmental crisis.
The speaker recovered the words of Pope Francis in the encyclical Laudato si’for whom the ecological struggle is a socio-environmental crisis. “One thing is the destruction that we are making of nature, which is associated and hand in hand with the construction of human life and of all species.”
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The head of CFADI pointed out that in order to build a life project human beings shut out all external elements and focus on themselveswithout thinking about whether a negative impact is generated on others, as well as animals and nature.
According to the proposal of Saint Ignatius, “one must become indifferent to things”, that is, know how to detach from freedom and seek the best not only for oneself, but also for the environment. “Christian freedom has to do with […] be clear about what I want. If I am clear about transcendence, I will also know what is best for me”, for others, and that contributes to the end for which the human being was created.
Unfortunately, he said, what bankrupts the social project “is the evil in the world” that has to do with the personal choice wrongly, from freedom. “The sin that we have not only makes us ugly and makes the world ugly, but it destroys it. When we do evil, we not only destroy outside, but also inside.”
The challenge, according to Pope Francis, is conversion, understood as “returning to the path” of goodness. This implies changing the mentality “of seeing the other as a brother, as a sister. They also have to turn in the direction of believing that we can only build ourselves as human beings if we all take care of ourselves.”, pointed out the Jesuit.
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