Creation Care Team
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creation care - laudato Si
At its core, the environmental crisis is a moral challenge. It calls us to examine how we use and share the goods of the earth, what we pass on to future generations, and how we live in harmony with God’s creation.
On Care for Our Common Home (Laudato Si’) is the new appeal from Pope Francis addressed to “every person living on this planet” for an inclusive dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet. Pope Francis calls the Church and the world to acknowledge the urgency of our environmental challenges and to join him in embarking on a new path. This encyclical is written with both hope and resolve, looking to our common future with candor and humility… Read More
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Mission
Come join us and share in this work of planetary (and home) conversion! Anchored in Laudato Si, we the members of the CCC Ministry, commit ourselves to the process of EDUCATING, ADVOCATING, and COLLABORATING as means of calling our Saint Thomas More Catholic Community and the broader local Faith communities to a more active engagement in the issues dealing with the Care of Our Common Home.
Our meetings time and place is yet to be arranged. Please contact Linda at stmcreationcareteam@gmail.com for more information or sign up below!
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our goals:
- Provide information about climate change and to foster activities that reduce its negative effects
- At the parish level we try to highlight practical steps we can take to reduce our carbon footprint and to foster hope and forward movement
- We try to keep up with policy proposals at the local, state, and national levels so that our community can be part of a moral/spiritual voice on issues such as alternative energy sources, oil pipelines, and renewable energy standards
- Increase awareness of moral and faith issues related to environmental issues, as outlined in Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis’s encyclical on environmental stewardship
- Encourage individuals and households to help promote sustainable living
- Work toward healing environmental injustices that often hurt poor and marginalized people the most
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Calendar of events
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monthly meetingsVia Zoom the 2nd Tuesday of the month, at 6:30 p.m.
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December
What is Laudato Si’?
Are we supposed to read it?
How does this have anything to do with the poor?
This Advent, take a step toward stewardship and prepare yourself for the coming of Jesus by reading, understanding and discussing what Pope Francis called us all to do back in 2015. Make this a family event as this program will be suited to high schoolers and upward. Give yourself to God for a few hours each week of Advent to read Laudato Si’. Then, either:- Participate for 1 hour, one day a week, for 3 weeks (Tuesday, Dec. 7, 14 & 21 at 7 p.m.) and, via Zoom, gather with others to discuss the chapters assigned that week, or;
- Join others, in person, at St. Thomas More on Sunday, Dec. 19th at 2 p.m..
There is no cost for this program. A free copy of Laudato Si’ (pdf) is on the Creation Care Team website. Either download it, and print it out or read it off your computer/tablet. A copy of the Encyclical can be found in the STM Library as well.
Please sign up on this page and indicate if you will be participating via Zoom or In-Person and how many from your family will attend. Further information will be given upon signing up.
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JOIN OUR CREATION CARE TEAM!
For Catholic people and parishes, reducing our carbon footprint more than makes sense. Reducing our carbon footprint is a way to live our faith. By reducing our carbon footprint, we care for Creation, the “wonderful gift that God has given us,” in the words of Pope Francis.
By joining together to live justly on the Earth, our Catholic community can make a big difference on climate change. Would you like to join us? After your registration you will receive valuable information and resources, as well as an invitation to our monthly discussion events – together we will educate our parish and help reduce our parish carbon footprint. Click Here to Register
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ST. FRANCIS/LAUDATO SI’ PLEDGE
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LINKS
- Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato Sí: Care for Our Common Home
- LaudatoSi - Common Care for our Common Home
- Catholic Climate Covenant
- We're all part of God's Planet
- Action Alert! Care for Our Common Home
- Protecting Natural Resources and Standing with the Poor
- USCCB Environment/Environmental Justice Program
- Global Catholic Climate Movement
- Prayers for God's Creation
- Prayer to Care for Our Common Home
- Guided Rosary on Caring for Creation
- Integrity of Creation: Things You Can Do
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