Cáritas Mexicana requires volunteers for its new Center for Spirituality in Integral Ecology
The Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral Care (CEPS-Cáritas) created a Center for Spirituality in Integral Ecologywith the aim of have a community space where ecological spirituality can be developed in a practical way in all its dimensions, and that also serves as a place of prayer, training and generator of processes from integral ecology.
The secretary of the Comprehensive Care Dimension of the Creation of CEPS-Cáritas, the engineer Jose David Torres Moya, explained to Vida Nueva what this proposal of the Church consists ofwhich seeks to take care of the Common House.
He explained that it is an increasingly “more structured” initiative and transformative, because it invites us to look at the environmental, economic, social, community and human aspects from integral ecology.”
In each of these dimensions – he pointed out – there is dozens of proposals to make; However, many of them are more than theories or rational arguments; “Instead, we talk about ways of doing and being with nature, with the territory, with others and with God“.
And he added: “The Center for Spirituality in Integral Ecology seeks to be that place where these dimensions are learned, touched, practiced, rehearsed, prayedetc., is the place where Christians and people of good will can learn to implement in their homes, parish communities, territories, streets and organizations.”
Volunteering required
Engineer José David Torres explained that, for its design and construction, the Center is working on the Dimension of Comprehensive Care of the Creation of the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral Care. in the facilities of the Santa Cruz Indigenous Center and the National Center for Assistance to Indigenous Missions (CENAMI)in the north of Mexico City.
Both institutions – he said – provide personnel, supplies and tools, “we are talking, for now, about four people, but this space requires more people spending a little of their life on its construction, so that is why we have launched a call for volunteering for those who wish to learn by working”.
He shared that the long-term objective is that each diocese has at least one space like thisFor now, the initiative has begun to be developed in the dioceses of Tula and Tulancingo.
“People need places where they learn by doing, where they see what appears in books built and working and where they can find the technical, social and spiritual reasons for transform their own spaces into themes of eco-technologies, agroecology, recovery of knowledge and culture of caring for the territoryof promoting the solidarity economy, of understanding their common home from the perspective of the basin and where they can design strategies to influence where life in all its moments and forms is in danger,” Torres added.
A spirituality centered on God the Creator
Finally, he made it clear that this Center proposal is not intended to be a school or a building, but “an open and popular learning concept, although it is a physical space, it can be developed on donated, borrowed, fenced land. or not, even It is desirable that it be a recovered space in the community that had been forgotten or abandoned for reasons of violence or social neglect.”
“This is not an exclusive proposal in the rural sector, it is perfectly adaptable to cities“The important thing is that there is a community that assumes the commitment to its construction, maintenance and attention to the training processes,” he added.
He highlighted that people who wish to join the Center for Spirituality in Integral Ecology and are interested in caring for the Common Home or want to learn topics of agroecology, eco-technologies and waste management in the dynamics of cities and with a spirituality centered on God the Creator, you can fill out the form to learn details at this link.
