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As the Lenten Season brings us closer to the Passion and Cross of Jesus the Church asks us to prepare for Resurrection Sunday, Easter. Our clerics give us many ways to prepare. But, often overlooked is the teachings on Stewardship. To be more conscious of our responsibilities is a valued way of preparing for the Resurrection.
Our primary responsibility is the stewardship of Creation. According to CERC;
Christian stewardship is a way of living in which we recognize that everything belongs to God. All resources must be used for His glory and the common good. Solidarity is the fruit of stewardship. A steward is someone who handles affairs for someone else. . . This concept dates from the beginning of time when God entrusted the earth to Adam and Eve and their offspring (Genesis 1:26-28);
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may have dominion over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So, God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
All men are stewards of the earth’s resources (Catechism 2402). This passage from Sacred Scripture provides the essential foundation for understanding what Christian stewardship means. . . While some may consider the term “dominion” in this passage to be the only direct reference to “stewardship”, the entire passage reveals that the stewardship expected of Adam and Eve and all of us has three essential characteristics; it is collective, it respects the purpose for which things exist, and it respects the dignity of each person.
The Pope and his brother Bishops began teaching about stewardship of creation as early as the 1960’s.
Therefore, we have inherited a legacy of responsibility from Adam and Eve to tend to, not outright own, Creation. Indeed, we are to have dominion over Creation. But this does not mean to abuse it as our property. It is to use Creation in conjunction with Gods will.