{"id":6333,"date":"2024-11-18T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/2024\/11\/18\/discovering-an-eco-centre\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T10:08:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T09:08:59","slug":"discovering-an-eco-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/2024\/11\/18\/discovering-an-eco-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering an eco-centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Our sisters who are currently at an international meeting are experiencing the daily workings of this Jesuit retreat house. In the wake of the encyclical Laudato si’<\/strong><\/em> (2015) and the Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Society of Jesus (2019), this spiritual centre has embraced integral ecology<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cWorking together to care for the earth, our common home\u201d<\/h5>\n
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The team that runs this retreat house wants to share with retreatants “the tradition of the Spiritual Exercises, an art of respectful accompaniment of each person, a living relationship with Creation and a happy sobriety lived concretely”.<\/p>\n

It so happens that ecology<\/strong> is one of the accents on which the Chapter invites us to move, to allow ourselves to be transformed.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201c<\/em>We desire to set out with those who are already engaged in caring for our common home in order to learn to develop a culture of care for the planet and the human person.\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n
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At Le Ch\u00e2telard, we live out these shared commitments in different ways. Firstly, by helping out around the house: peeling for meal preparation, clearing tables, washing up, etc.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We are also encouraged to question the impact of our food on Creation. Meals only include meat or fish three times a week. When you consider that livestock farming worldwide is responsible for 14.5% of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions (according to the latest FAO report<\/a>), we’re happy to be experimenting with the dietary transition<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

In the park, we enjoy the biodiversity<\/strong>: trees, birds… We can also visit the sheep and donkey when we’re relaxing, even if we have to brave the cold. We can also admire the permaculture vegetable garden. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Our November international meetings take place at Le Ch\u00e2telard (near Lyon). This is an “eco-centre”, in other words a centre committed to a strong ecological approach. It’s a way for us to move towards a life more respectful of the “Common Home”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}