“I think that any sermon on the salvation of the soul, on love of the poor, any so-called eucharistic ritual, any evangelical discourse that doesn’t concern itself with saving the earth and its natural resources, is perverted. How can certain men and women repeat the words “This is my body, this is my blood” over the fruit of the earth with out worrying about how long that earth will remain fruitful? What are these men and women talking about?”- Luce Irigaray (1983)
Wow. This is great. Personal salvation, corporate worship, and social action must coordinate with preservation of creation or it all equals non-sense. I’m all about the Eucharist, but this really put it in a different frame. I think I really should become a farmer to understand the gospel (and why did Jesus pick fishermen anyway when he’s always talking agriculture?)