This is being spread worldwide by a unending number of news and social sources which on the surface seemingly no connection to Pope and the Catholic church, but they appear to be almost orchestrated or the same source.
Here are a few..."Give the earth a Sabbath day - CSMonitor.com
If we all reduced our driving, shopping, business, and energy consumption by one-seventh, we'd pollute that much less. We'd have to avoid energy-guzzling leisure activities, so maybe nix the long drives or movie marathons. Still, even if we left out the work and traffic that must go on – hospitals, police, utilities – the environmental boon would still be significant.
Religious leaders have joined to battle global warming and preserve God's creation. But in their rush to recycle, reduce, and reuse, they have neglected the pollution-reducing potential of a full-day work stoppage.
The Evangelical Climate Initiative, launched last year by 86 leaders, calls for international action but also directs concerned Christians to "keep your tires properly inflated" and "walk or bike more." Why not invoke the Sabbath and suggest that people live near their church and keep Sunday holy by not shopping or working? Then they could skip all driving one day a week....
Global warming has united the monotheistic faiths despite their other frictions. In the past week, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and other religious leaders from around the world have convened yet again for a symposium on the environment, this time in Greenland in part to focus on a melting glacier there.
Together they could do much more by hewing to one of the oldest practices in their common tradition."...https://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0912/p09s01-coop.html
"At least one societal change resulting from the quarantine could do wonders to reinvigorate our national sense of family, faith, and community. Let’s give serious thought to reinstating at least some of the time-honored Sunday closure laws, sort of a one-day-per-week modified stay-at-home request. Such action would rededicate our society to a regular day of rest, family meals, civic associations, and religious observance.
By rededicating each Sunday as “a common day of rest,” we would say that the life of America is much more than never-pausing commerce and ever-grinding bureaucracy. We would proclaim that the heart of the nation transcends consumerism and looms larger than even the biggest government. We would emphasize that the real value in a country comes not from its GNP or tax collections, but from families, faith, communities, that it comes from “We the people.”
Many obvious benefits to faith, family, and community are certain to accrue from Sunday closings. Less obvious will be an economic uplift for the mom-and-pop brick-and-mortar shops that traditionally were permitted to open on Sundays, long before being squashed by malls, warehouse stores, and supermarkets which dominate seven-day commerce. Additionally, locally owned restaurants regularly served neighborhoods in the “blue law” era, further encouraging small businesses. For old-school sports fans, Sundays-at-rest may encourage a relaxed weekly afternoon watching or listening to nine innings of baseball, reinvigorating our once-dominant national pastime.
Of course, there will be plenty of entrenched opposition to a renewed Sunday for rest, reflection, family, faith, and community. Libertarians and classical laissez faire economists oppose any such restrictions on commerce, blissfully unaware that most states protected the Lord’s Day from big business encroachment for nearly two centuries, while encouraging free enterprise on the six other days. Even those who claimed “the business of America is business” were willing to concede one day a week for faith, family, rest.
More opposition to a restoration of Sundays will emanate from secular leftists, who on most issues vehemently denounce greedy billionaire capitalists. But on this matter their fear that more Americans “will keep holy the Lord’s Day” far outweighs their fear of unbridled capitalism. Better, many secularists suppose, that people go to supermarkets and malls than to prayer services. Better still that Americans become addicted to consumerism than fall for “the opiate of the masses.” Better, they conclude, an undifferentiated mass of Sunday consumers than Masses and services filled with Sunday worshipers.."
https://newbostonpost.com/2020/04/0...ONnqdtV17pvY4JTg3n9PhMzqUIV6dHrYGou6atYZ1rmaE
"Green Sabbath Project
Increasing numbers of people see the wisdom of observing a technology shabbat,
a break from all devices with screens. Bogotá, Colombia, has introduced
car-free Sundays that the population savors. When Israeli cities shut down for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur (the day of atonement),
nitrogen oxide pollution in the air decreases for the day by 70-99% .
Try it. One day a week you’ll stop creating the need for more goods, stop using up natural resources, stop emitting carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
The Sabbath is said to be a foretaste of the world to come (Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 57b). Literally. If you care about our future, about your well-being, observe a real sabbath day of rest. It helps cultivate community, self-discipline, inner calm and contentment. One powerful weapon in the fight against environmental deterioration and climate disaster may just be an age-old spiritual technology."..https://www.greensabbathproject.net/
And people have noticed the connection..."
End of the world: Why Pope Francis' plan for 2020 is ‘straight out Book of Revelations’ On September 12 this year, Pope Francis announced his plan to launch a global education pack to “unite efforts” to combat climate change. The leader of the Vatican called on world leaders to come together on May 14, 2020, to discuss his “Laudato Si” proposal to reduce global warming. He said: “Never before has there been such need to unite our efforts in a broad educational alliance, to form mature individuals capable of overcoming division and antagonism, and to restore the fabric of relationships for the sake of more fraternal humanity.
“An alliance is needed between the Earth’s inhabitants and our common home, which we are bound to care for and respect.
“I invite everyone to work for this alliance and to be committed, individually and within our communities, to nurturing the dream of a humanism rooted in solidarity and responsive both to humanity’s aspirations and to God’s plan.
“The most significant personalities in the world are invited to take part in the proposed initiative, political, cultural and religious, and in particular the young people to whom the future belongs.
“The goal is to arouse an awareness and a wave of responsibility for the common good of humanity, starting from the young and reaching all people of goodwill.”
However, by ignoring God’s instructions to rest on the seventh day.
He said in a video in October: “Pope Francis is referring to Laudato Si’, which is his encyclical on climate change, there he offers some suggestions on how to combat climate change, including reducing carbon emissions, carpooling, planting trees and recycling.
“These are not bad suggestions, but in the encyclical, Pope Francis also suggests Sundays with keeping a better environment.
“Page 237 reads ‘On Sunday, our participation in the Eucharist has special importance, Sunday is meant to be a day which heals our relationship with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world’.
“The implication here is that we need to have a law mandating rest on Sunday, so it appears that his agenda on climate change includes giving Sunday rest and worship mandated by law to improve the environment.”...
“The Book of Revelation describes a religious polarisation that takes place in the End Times, people will be divided into two camps, those that receive the mark of the beast and those that receive the seal of God.
“Those that receive the mark of the beast will be those that go along with Sunday rest and worship laws, while those who receive the seal of God will decide to stay true to God’s commandments and keep the seventh day holy, which is on Saturday, not Sunday.
“However, the Catholic Church changed the sabbath from Saturday to Sunday and no man has the right to change God’s commandment...."
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weir...-change-2020-book-of-revelations-god-real-spt
