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Question Answered step-by-step Instruction: Compose in five sentences. Give a concrete example for… Instruction: Compose in five sentences. Give a concrete example for each to justify your answer. Underline the key words in your answers. 1. What do you think is the role of the ChristianCommunity in the process of morla discernment? How does familial and communal discernment affect your own process of decision making? According to Pope Francis, we will be able to protect and care for our common home only by learning to adopt radically new lifestyle or also known as “the new habits”. The formation of the healthy habitus (habit) for stewardship of our common home can come only through the cultivation of appropriate ECOLOGICAL VIRTUES which can lead to SÉLFLESS ECOLOGICAL COMMITMENT. What is this “new habit” you would like to adopt? Why? Cite or provide concrete example to support your answer. Read the parable below entitled “Mother” written byPeter Ribes, S, from his book entitled Parables and Fables for MODERN Man. MOTHER 21 There was a very loving, fruitful and provident mother. In her Immense fertility she happily begot hundreds nay, thousands of children. Her name was “Earth” and her children’s names were “men” and”women.” Lovingly and with utter prodigality she regaled them with cool and chaste water to drink; fleshy and juicy fruits to eat; soft, green and freshgrass to lie on; nights and days, months and seasons. When men and women, Mother Earth’s children, were small they loved their mother dearly. They caressed her night and day with their bare hands and feet. They were so grateful to Mother Earth that they established great festivals to usher in and celebrate the seasons, the harvesting of the crops, the beginning and ending of the rains, summers and winters. In their child-like simplicity they even prayed to her and worshipped her in their fields, in their homes and in their little temples. Asthe children of Mother Earth grew and became learned and educated, they turned colder and colder towards their mother. In the end they forgot all her favors and all her love and generosity. Their festivals and celebrations ceased. Their prayers stuck in their throats. Their worship was forgotten.They regarded with horror and contempt their former prayers, worshipping, festivals and celebrations. And as they grew more “civilized” they learned to wrest from her bosom, by cunning and by force, the treasures she lovingly concealed for men and women yet unborn! Finally, now, when they have reached the peak of development, they havechanged their attitudes towards their benign mother. Mother Earth is now a rival to conquer, a wild beast to entrap and subdue, a miser to strip bare. And so her children brutally “cannibalize” on her, maim her, strip her of her mantle of beauty and pollute her. And yet, all over the world the intellectuals, the philosophers and great thinkers keep repeating: “At last we conquered earth. We know the secrets of nature. We emancipated humankind from obscurantism, fear of natural phenomena and superstitions. We are now rich and prosperous. A bright future is waiting for us. We need not pray or worship anyone anymore!” But I question: “Is it really so? Can we live without our Mother?” Questions: Who are the children of the world? Is this just a poetical figure of speech or does it express a true reality? Explain 4. How should “rational” human beingsuse (not abuse) the riches and resources of the earth to prevent those catastrophic consequences. (Be inspired from the lines stated in the parable.) Arts & Humanities Writing ENGLISH ENG 126 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)
