LAUDATO SI’ WEEK - Seven years after the encyclical
What is Laudato Si’ week ?
Laudato Si’ Week began as a way to celebrate the first anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical which changed the world : "Laudato Si’- On Care for our Common Home." Since then, this annual celebration has become a way for all Catholics to come together and celebrate the progress made to bring Laudato Si’ to life and engage in prayer and action for our common home.
This year the theme is "Listening and Journeying Together". Catholics across the six continents work "to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development." (LS 13) as a guide for the week-long celebration. Throughout the world Catholicsbring ther communities together to see how Laudato Si’ offers a framework for facing the climate crisis. At the global level Catholics join together as one family through prayer and action. Protecting our common home requires action. For this we can follow St. Therese of Lisieux who invites us to engage in small steps of love, not losing the opportunity for a kind word, a smile, any small way to sow peace and friendship.
LAUDATO SI’ AND THE CALLS OF OUR GENERAL CHAPTER
Integral ecology is also made up of simple ordinary gestures through which we break the chain of violence, exploitation, egoism (LS 230). A simple smile toward a stranger can help contribute to protecting our common home. There are many ways to build the world we want, the world we need. Following both Laudato Si’ and the calls of our General Chapter, the province chose ways to protect all creation.
Community events that marked the week :
During the week the Spirit was inviting us to leave our hearts open, engaged for mission, even if the body could no longer go beyond the physical limits which we experience. As we moved toward Pentecost. we felt the invitation to go to the essential and to go the limits of trust to " involve ourselves with the laity in the work of justice, advocating for the defense and protection of the environment and the needy" (Final Document 2021)
May web e guided by this Spirit who leads us, in communion with creation
Sr. Jona Chinnappan
Nice to see you àll .love for the nature
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