Not just 'Earth day'!
As much as I endorse and support managing and protecting the environment, I have to say that those denominations who have made 'Earth Day' more important than Good Friday are flawed, fallen and, to be brutally honest, bordering on (if not already there) apostate!
Today, our Lentern journeying brings us shortly to a place of torture, mocking and in the penultimate act of today's sacrifice for the 'whole world', Golgotha - the place pf the skull.
Today is about more than being 'eco friendly', if is about becoming friends again with God in a relationship cemented by the blood of Christ.
Today, One of the world's holiest days is with us, not two as the flawed words of one columnist has it:
"Two of the world’s holiest religious holidays are set to fall on April 22 this year — Good Friday for Christians and Earth Day for environmentalists — and some religious leaders are preparing their flocks to celebrate both."
Whatever, however, wherever you are and think, 'Earth Day' won't restore your relationship with God, it will not count you as innocent when all around you cry guilty, it will not condemn you, but offer you a hand and a hope.
Earth day? Is a great intention but it's not holy, is it?
Pax
2 comments:
Spot on, Vic. On Good Friday, God is reconciling the world (cosmos) to himself through Jesus. He is repairing a gigantic fault in the universe, the one which lies through the middle of each one of us, the one that other days (Earth Day) cannot reach. So Good Friday encompasses Earth Day, but is SOOOOOOOOO much more!
I did not even know that it was supposed to be Earth Day?
My mind has been concentrated on the journey through Lent to today and for Sunday.
Lent and Easter are the most important seasons of the Church for me, and I suspect most other Christians. Sure I care about the Environment and Green things, but I care so much more about what God did for us, through the Incarnation.
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