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LIGHT and LIFE | A Catechesis by Fr. Dismas Sayre, O.P.

In the Beginning

A Catechesis by Fr. Dismas Sayre, O.P., LIGHT and LIFE - May-June 2024, Vol 77, No 3,

THEOLOGY FOR THE LAITY is a publication of the Western Dominican Province.

https://rosarycenter.org/blog/in-the-beginning

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The World’s ACTUAL Oldest Profession

God does not place Adam and Eve in a factory, nor in an artist’s studio, nor in a print shop, nor in some computer room – He places them firmly and pointedly in a garden. But ever since the latter part of the previous century, the majority of mankind has been removed from the rural environment for which we could say he was created, into a workshop of his own creation – we are now an urban or suburban-majority race of sentient beings, who were not designed for such an environment. While it has made many good things and excellent things and possible and even increased our capacity and potential for knowledge, it has also withdrawn us more and more from the very natural environment from which God made us. Not only that, but ever since the invention of the light bulb, the very heavens themselves seem closed to us. We now have to return to the desert or the highest peaks to see the heavens as our ancestors did not that long ago.

Our connection to the skies and the soil itself is severed, as is our own original mission statement: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth” (Gen 1:26). Many politicians in the present age seem to make laws and dictates that are sometimes not at all connected to the reality of where and how food comes from.

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