The creation, the environment, and the ecology are issues that the Church looks on with particular affection and commitment.And now Christians have five new ecological commandments, written by the Spanish priest Jesus de la Heras Muela.
De las Heras, director of the religious magazine "Ecclesia", has directed the Information Office of the Spanish Episcopal Conference from 1995 to 2004, is a priest of the Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara and professor of Church History.
The priest says that "nature shows us the beauty of God, the Creator, who has left his signature, his mark on the created" so that there is a need to protect and responsibly manage the assets of land, the first: “man was created by God in his image and likeness".
Thus, De la Heras, a member of the Spanish Society Mariology, has drafted these five commandments:
1: Therefore, the first Christian and humane attitude to the establishment is to see in it the track and face of the Creator. We are not the product of chance or of matter, but the loving and creative will of God, the God of Christians.
2: Secondly, the real ecology, recognizing the creative power of God should never idolize nature, making it a new and false religion. We need to love, care for, respect and protect the environment, but never worship it.
3: That's because -third- people are the centre of creation, the summit of God's creation. Hence, it is inexcusable that commitment to the ecological care of the human environment, which is injured and even killed by the abuse of alcohol and drugs, the glorification of violence and sexual degradation, poverty, social injustice due to the abortion and other attacks against life.
4: Fourthly, our proper and fruitful relationship with nature may be established in terms of brotherhood, fraternity, and felt like St Francis of Assisi wrote in his beautiful "Song of the creatures”.
5: In this way also the ecological Christian adds as a precept to the use and enjoyment of nature: that it should be rational, reasonable, responsible, fair, considerate and sustainable. We are not owners of it, or crazed and avid consumers. Nature is an asset for all, we are morally obliged to share it resources and serve everybody, especially those who are in need.
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(Source: RI)