ROME, January 3, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Devotion to "Mother Earth" took center stage at a Vatican Christmas concert.
During the Dec. 24 event, whose lineup included Lionel Richie, Bonnie Tyler and Susan Boyle, a priest took to the stage with an indigenous young woman, a translator and the evening’s host, Italian television personality, Federica Panicucci.
He asked: “What is your relationship with Mother Earth?” to which she responded by inviting the audience to cross their arms over their heart and “feel a strong vibration.” The audience, which included senior Vatican officials such as Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, and deputy Secretary of State, or sostituto, Archbishop Edgar Pena Parra, all complied.
“This is the heart – your heart, but also the heart of Mother Earth,” the young indigenous woman continued. “In another place, where you feel silence, there is the spirit, the spirit that allows us to understand the message of the Mother.”
She went on to explain: “For us, the indigenous peoples, above all for my people, Mother Earth, the ‘Hicha Guaia,’ is everything. It is this Mother who provides us with nourishment. She is the one who gives us the sacred water, she is the one who gives us the medicinal plants, and she is the one who reminds us of our origin, the origin of [our] creation. Therefore, we give to her our birth placenta and our first cutting of hair. Our connection with her is constant. That’s how the pulse feels, that’s how the heart feels, it vibrates.”
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