Pastors

Overall, a pastor's role is centered around providing spiritual leadership, guidance, and support to their congregation. They serve as a bridge between the teachings of their faith and the daily lives of their community members, helping them navigate challenges, find meaning, and deepen their relationship with their spirituality.

Green Life Ministry focuses on empowering GLC priests to learn more about other components to keep their congregations holistically vibrant and manage their journeys on the planet Earth. It includes sharing the model of the priests who contributed their best as priests and whatever their professional ability to contribute to improving people's lives.

Transformation of
Spiritual Wisdom
into Scientific Innovation

Discoveries and Innovations

Innovative practices require the ability of the soul to unite with the spirit in an interactive engagement with the supernatural. A high level of spiritual intelligence is needed to navigate this inventive process to drive change in this material world.

Within Mendel, Christianity and Science were harmonized. Living as a monk, he raised and monitored more than 20,000 pea plants inside the walls of his monastery. He was a teacher of physics and also a beekeeper who tried with little success to study the inheritance of traits in bees. His responsibilities in later life in leading the monastery overtook his earlier priority on scientific studies.

During the medieval period, monasteries in Europe served as centers of learning and preservation of knowledge. Many priest were engaged in scientific activities such as copying manuscripts, studying natural phenomena, and conducting experiments.

Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884)

Gregor Mendel was born into a German-speaking family of Heinzendorf, Moravia of the Austrian Empire (now Hynčice, district of Nový Jičín, in the Czech Republic). During his childhood, Mendel worked as a gardener, and as a young man attended the Philosophical Institute in Olomouc. In 1843, he entered the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno. Born Johann Mendel, he took the name Gregor upon entering monastic life. In 1847, Mendel was ordained as a priest. In 1851, he was sent to the University of Vienna to study, returning to his abbey in 1853 as a teacher, principally of physics.

Preists optimally utilized their blessed abilities to better transform
people's lives spiritually and technologically.

Roger Bacon (1214–1294)

Roger Bacon was a priest,  English philosopher and scientist who is often referred to as a precursor to the scientific method. He emphasized the importance of empirical observation and experimentation in natural philosophy (what we now call science). His writings discussed optics, mathematics, and the experimental approach.

Nicholas Steno (1638–1686)

A Danish Catholic bishop and anatomist, Steno made significant contributions to the field of geology. He formulated principles of stratigraphy, which are fundamental to the study of Earth’s history and the identification of rock layers.

Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955)

A French Jesuit priest and paleontologist, Teilhard de Chardin integrated his scientific work with his theological reflections. He explored the concept of the “Omega Point,” a future state of ultimate convergence and unity, bridging science and spirituality.

Albertus Magnus (1193–1280)

A Dominican friar and scholar, Albertus Magnus made contributions to various fields, including natural philosophy, theology, and alchemy. He is often credited with introducing Aristotelian philosophy to the medieval Christian world.

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)

Copernicus, a Catholic cleric, formulated the heliocentric model of the solar system, which challenged the prevailing geocentric view. His work marked a major shift in our understanding of the universe and paved the way for modern astronomy.

Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618–1663)

An Italian Jesuit priest and physicist, Grimaldi made significant contributions to the study of optics, particularly in the field of diffraction. The phenomenon of diffraction of light around obstacles is named after him.

Athanasius Kircher (1601–1680)

A Jesuit scholar, Kircher was involved in various scientific endeavors, including the invention of mechanical devices and the study of natural phenomena. He contributed to fields such as Egyptology, geology, and medicine.

Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955)

A Jesuit priest, paleontologist, and philosopher, Teilhard de Chardin integrated scientific and theological perspectives. He proposed the concept of the “Omega Point,” a future state of maximum complexity and consciousness in the universe.

These are a few individuals, among others, who were Christian priests who made significant contributions to scientific understanding and innovation.

The contributions of these can be an inspiration for
young priests to use their potential to the fullest.

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Our Commitment with Our
Lord Jesus Christ

Green Life Ministry and Church is on the spiritual path to comply with the holistic Green Commandment to keep the earth healthy and green so that followers of Jesus Christ and other people can be physically, economically, and spiritually strong to face the evil forces that want to weaken or destroy the earth.

Your Participation

You can also join us, and we all can enhance our spiritual comprehension to empower ourselves,
under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to be able to take the Good News to the misled and unreached.