A 97-year-old Good Samaritan Sister urged attendees at a Blue Mountains Interfaith Gathering to create “heroic communities” focused on compassion, justice, and environmental care. Source: Katoomba Area Local News.
The event, held at the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Centre, brought together diverse faith traditions to address global anxieties, promote interconnectedness with nature and ask the question, “what can we do?”
Sr Jacinta Shailer SGS answered this question by encouraging the creation of “heroic communities”.
She reflected on how science and technology have helped deepen knowledge of the “complex and magnificent universe” and how this changed our understanding of “our home” can guide people to create the communities of the future:
“As our consciousness deepens and we mature more as human beings, we realise we cannot close our eyes or block our ears to what is going on in our world, but we are invited to join a kind of revolution: one centred on the transformative power of Love,” Sr Jacinta said.
“One of the best ways of doing this is by joining, what [US academic] Brian Swimme calls heroic communities: ones that foster compassion, justice, care of the needy, creative imagining, ways of life-giving thinking, ways of contemplating the wonders of our world in the small and the large, the weird and the wonderful.
“From such communities, ripples of life, healing and joy, will flow out to our world where it is needed. This will lead to new ways of growing our food, building our homes, making art, deepening our relationships, praying together, strengthening our wisdom traditions, restoring our ecosystems and healing Mother Earth.
“We will learn to listen to the land and learn from her wisdom. Then we won’t fear the future, we will create it. We will revel in the beauty, grandeur, magnificence and wonder of this universe, and raise our hearts and voices in joyful gratitude, because this universe is our home.”
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