An Ethic for our Environment: Becoming a Saint Today

1. An Ethic for our Environment: Becoming a Saint Today Fifth Level of Awareness

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

6. 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).

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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?”

10. Becoming a saint today • Heaven: a Dream Home or Family for all energies and personal energy-beings, sanctified, familized, energized by God’s Uncreated Energies

11. Becoming a saint today • Hell: a pit for various energies and personal energy beings, forever unsanctifiable,unfamilizable

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. How to become a saint • Through the practice of • Theological virtues: • Faith • Hope • Charity • Cardinal virtues : • Prudence • Justice • Temperance • Fortitude

15. 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.

16. 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 (充電).

17. 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.

18. 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.

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

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

21. 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…

22. 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.”