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How might we practice an Earth-honoring faith today?
Fr. John Chryssavgis defines asceticism as as an Earth-honoring way of faith which calls us to… travel light—we can always manage with less than we imagine; let go—we are to learn to relinquish our desire to control; open up—we are called to create bonds, to reunite, to reconcile; soften up—how can we make our communities less savage, more inhabitable? tread light—we must not hurt, we must stop wounding our environment; live simply—not complicating our relationship with each other and with our…