Four resources to reflect on and celebrate during this Season of Creation 2022

READ the Message from Pope Francis for World Day of Prayer for Care for Creation
"The sweet song of creation invites us to practise an “ecological spirituality” (Laudato Si’, 216), attentive to God’s presence in the natural world. It is a summons to base our spirituality on the “loving awareness that we are not disconnected from the rest of creatures, but joined in a splendid universal communion” (LS, 220)"...
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​Read the Message here

VIEW the Video from the Laudato Si' Movement

WALK the Story of the Universe
The Creation Walk is the story of the Universe, a story full of mystery, wonder and awe. It includes the story of our Common Home, Mother Earth, and the story of you and me. Because it is a divine story, appropriate scriptural quotations accompany the scientific account.
Download the Walk here (PDF)

CELEBRATE the Season of Creation 
The 42 page Celebration Guide offers ideas and resources to help us all participate in the annual celebration of prayer and action for our common home
Download the Guide here

On 21 July 2022  the Vatican  called for an international treaty that tackles the climate crisis at its source: fossil fuels. The call builds on the Vatican’s calls for fossil fuel divestment and new policies for investments in “a more just and sustainable world”. It complements the call of Laudato Si' (2015) to protect the environment, reduce wasteful lifestyles, stem global warming and protect the poor from climate change and the Laudato Si' Action Platform initiative to "see our communities committed in different ways to becoming totally sustainable, in the spirit of integral ecology". 

The proposed Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty would complement the Paris Agreement by establishing a specific international mechanism to manage a fair and rapid phase out of coal, oil and gas that enables countries to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels, support workers and communities, transition rapidly to renewable energy, and build more diverse economies.

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