Advent with Aleteia #jour 14: repair instead of throwing, an act of love
Every day of Advent, Aleteia offers you to become a disciple of Christ by renewing your heart in a more loving heart. Today, Aleteia encourages you to reuse instead of throwing away. An act that, according to Pope Francis, "can be an act of love."
Holey trousers, torn books, a worn bike... Sometimes we have the reflex a little too fast to throw in the dumpster what could be stitched, patched or repaired. On the contrary, Pope Francis in Laudato Si' urges us to "save creation through small daily actions" such as "reusing something instead of throwing it away quickly." He calls for our "generous creativity" to recycle what can be, and make it a family lifestyle. In practical terms, this concerns many areas: using fruit that is too ripe to make compotes or jams, and vegetables that are a little stunted to make soups, recovering cooking water to water plants, using tissue handkerchiefs. instead of tissues and towels instead of paper towels, repairing a garment or repairing a zipper, buying rechargeable pens, banning disposable dishes...
An act of love and a question of dignity
"Reusing something instead of throwing it away quickly, because you are driven by deep motivations, can be an act of love expressing our dignity," the Pope said. What dignity? Our dignity as a co-creator, argues professor and economist Pierre-Yves Gomez in the preface to Adeline and Alexis Voizard's book How to Save the Planet at Home (Emmanuel): "Human beings are not a inhabitant of this planet. He is first and foremost a inhabited, being who receives himself in greater dignity since his body is a sanctuary of the Spirit (1 Co 6: 19). (...) Human beings are invited to be with God, that is to say to participate in creation, to be co-creators, to pursue God's work in his own activities, his projects, his work. A co-creation that transforms society but also our own hearts. "We are builders of our homes, of our societies but also of ourselves. Ecological conversion works us in depth, changes our hearts and makes us more dignified and more human every day! Adeline and Alexis Voizard testify.
Holey trousers, torn books, a worn bike... Sometimes we have the reflex a little too fast to throw in the dumpster what could be stitched, patched or repaired. On the contrary, Pope Francis in Laudato Si' urges us to "save creation through small daily actions" such as "reusing something instead of throwing it away quickly." He calls for our "generous creativity" to recycle what can be, and make it a family lifestyle. In practical terms, this concerns many areas: using fruit that is too ripe to make compotes or jams, and vegetables that are a little stunted to make soups, recovering cooking water to water plants, using tissue handkerchiefs. instead of tissues and towels instead of paper towels, repairing a garment or repairing a zipper, buying rechargeable pens, banning disposable dishes...
An act of love and a question of dignity
"Reusing something instead of throwing it away quickly, because you are driven by deep motivations, can be an act of love expressing our dignity," the Pope said. What dignity? Our dignity as a co-creator, argues professor and economist Pierre-Yves Gomez in the preface to Adeline and Alexis Voizard's book How to Save the Planet at Home (Emmanuel): "Human beings are not a inhabitant of this planet. He is first and foremost a inhabited, being who receives himself in greater dignity since his body is a sanctuary of the Spirit (1 Co 6: 19). (...) Human beings are invited to be with God, that is to say to participate in creation, to be co-creators, to pursue God's work in his own activities, his projects, his work. A co-creation that transforms society but also our own hearts. "We are builders of our homes, of our societies but also of ourselves. Ecological conversion works us in depth, changes our hearts and makes us more dignified and more human every day! Adeline and Alexis Voizard testify.
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