Season of Creation 2025, from Pune Province

 

Thank you very much!!! 

"I care" project!

Desde el colegio de Córdoba, Argentina, nos comparten ... 

Un proyecto que se alinea con las Preferencias Apostólicas de Jesús María, especialmente en lo que respecta a la Construcción de Relaciones Sanas y Justas. Incorpora además lineamientos de la encíclica papal Laudato Sí como es el cuidado de la Casa Común.

¡No dejes de leerlo!

Growing Together for a Greener Fatuquero - Nurturing Roots, Sowing Sustainability!

From the community of Fatuquero.

Timor Leste

Spring time... Earth day... from USA

The little ones teach us to take care of our common home.

Thank you very much!

 

Earth day, from Haiti

Very interesting news.

How many activities for the care of the common Home!

 

Care for the Earth

Delhi Province, India 

How do we preserve our common home?

Each school and Community had celebrated the earth day and environment day. Planted trees, wrote slogans and pasted on the walls and Boards as a reminder.

Inter school Quiz competition and Debates were organised.

Schools have formed Eco Clubs and Environment Clubs. Talks and Seminars were conducted for the students. To keep the Earth clean, Zero Plastic Campaign were introduced in the school. Plastic bags were replaced by Jute and Paper bags. Covid - 19 affected families were helped financially and spiritually.

Recycling, reuse of waste material were taught to the Students. 

Our students in the Institutions

and sisters of the communities

Small but consistent steps towards change

 from Timor-Leste

Newsletter

The journey of caring for our common home at RJM Kasait, Timor Leste, began with small but consistent steps towards change. 

In this newsletter we would like to share these small initiatives that are being taken to make Laudato Si a lived reality, in collaboration with the Jesuit Social Service in Timor Leste and other collaborators.

Laudato si' GARDEN

 in School Jesus & Mary

Bycula, Mumbai

Care for people, care for Creation

 “So many people are hanging by the thinnest of threads. Treat people well, you could just be that thread.” Anonymous.

We at St. Agnes High School, Mumbai,  have reached out during the Pandemic to the needy showing them care and support - material as well as emotional.

Two students from our Primary section could not afford to buy two mobiles for online learning due to poor economic condition, so they were missing out on their studies .We requested their mother to bring them to school so that we could help them in their studies through or school mobile. Their mother brings them at 8.30am and picks them up at 01.30pm. Morning

Another parent requested for a job since her husband has lost his job .We gave her teaching of the catechism class and pay her honorarium to support her. Sister also got a sponsor to pay her daughters fees for five months.

There was an elderly Lady who used to bring Tiffin for the school children and earned a living but now as school has closed she has no source of Income. We give her monthly ration.

Our helpers are actively involved in the care for creation movement. Last year during season of creation they planted vegetables on primary school ground from it we got organic pumpkins, muskmelons and Fenugreek vegetables for the sisters kitchen. They had planted four Elaichi Banana plants, of which 3 have given us Bananas this year. They have also made Vermi culture pit and dump the vegetable peals from kitchen into it.

This is how we practice this care for people and care for creation. I conclude this article from the quote from Khalil Gibran “Generosity is giving more than you can, and Pride is taking less than you need.”

From PUNE Province, India

Joins the Season of Creation

 from St. Anthony's Community, Agra, India

We shared our reflections on Nature – Season of creation – A Time to Remember and Restore during the prayer meetings. We felt one with nature, took part in plantation and continue to take care of the nature. We have also involved our co –workers in plantation. A deep awareness is felt during this time of Pandemic that we need to respect, love and take care of the nature, as we are all part of creation. Nature always been giving us but man’s greed has destroyed the nature. 

The pledge to save our common home made us aware of the urgent need to be one with the nature and to love its creator.  Our them: Nurture Nature for a better Future has become part of our   life. Thus make this world a beautiful place to live in for the next generation.

From Provintial house, New Delhi, India

A portion of our Community room was created into an atmosphere of the earth, all elements of nature, mountains, hills, rivers, trees, plants, creepers, rocks, flowers that usually surround us on our planet giving us a nostalgic feeling of our Common Home. Based on the youtube Videos, that drew us close to the reality of what is happening on Mother Earth, we were made aware of God’s original plan for humanity, our selfishness and destruction, envisaged by Pope Francis and our responsibility to take care of our Common Home.

Each one of us Sisters held a slogan in the hand like a Poster – e.g. “Save the Earth” ; “Plant trees”; “Say NO to plastic”; “love green, Live green”; “Save Electricity”; “Save Water”; “Change the World”; “Save the Planet”; “Stay alert”; “Grow Trees”; “Keep Clean, Keep Green”; “Save Life”; “ Nurture our Mother Earth”; Save our Future”; and together we took a pledge to care for the earth in our own surroundings.

May this prayer on Creation renew, repair, restore and re-energize our wounded Mother Earth and heal humanity.

Echoes of Season of Creation

From St. Bede's Community, Shimla, India

As one Community, we the Sisters of St. Bede’s- Chelsea came together for a Prayer service in our Garden to feel oneness with the Nature. We began our prayer by lighting the lamp as a sign of invoking God’s presence in our midst. In order to manifest how each of us would care for our common home, we came up with different symbols as a sign of commitment to nurture the Nature. Following are the symbols brought forth by each Sister:

Sr. Magdalene - Plastic: By minimum use of plastic, we could protect our Nature from harmful hazards which affect the life on the planet.

Sr. Aloysius Kadam – Flowers: Flowers are one of the most beautiful creations and expressions of God and it represents fulness of joy and peace. Flowers are also used as a form of offering to God. Like the flowers, we too continue offering ourselves to God and His people so that we may spread His fragrance of goodness, love and forgiveness.

Sr. Marina – Paper: By minimum use of paper, we could save our plants and trees which are the source of oxygen and removal of carbon dioxide.

Sr. Lily – Vegetables from our Garden: By growing vegetables in our garden, we will promote more organic farming which is free from pesticides and chemicals. This will have a good effect on our overall health and will protect our bodies from poisonous substances.

Sr. Shyma – Light: The absence of darkness is light. Light promotes growth and creates energy. Light also symbolises the presence of God. So as a Religious Sister of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary, we pledge to become beacons of light (God) and care for our Mother Earth through our life’s witness.

Sr. Geeta Mary - Water: Water replenishes life and is the source of every living creature. We pledged to save water for our future generations and make use of this natural resource with a sense of responsibility.

Sr. Ivy Mary – Wet and Dry Waste: By segregating the garbage into dry and wet waste, we will help in the process of recycling objects and things which will add to saving our resources for the future generations.

Sr. Binita Surin – Plants: A Plant is a source of food and life to every creature on the earth. We pledged to grow more saplings so that we will create more of green forests to save the Earth from pollution and global warming.

We thanked the Lord for this great gift of creation and concluded our prayer service with a thanksgiving hymn.

Taking part in the Season of Creation

From Community of Dublin, Ireland

As a community here in Dublin we have enjoyed taking part in the Season of Creation. We had a lovely Prayer Service on the theme.  

We cultivated a small bio- diversity garden with beautiful wild flowers, attracting the bees, also a Plaque marking our Common Home, which is set in this garden. We also had various posters displayed in the house. All of this has inspired us to nurture and care for our beautiful world.

From CJM Dehra Dun, India

On Thursday the 24thSeptember 2020 we celebrated the ‘Jubilee for the Earth’. It was a very meaningful celebration and we were able to experience the oneness with our creator and gave glory to this marvellous works. 

Thank you!!!

 

Prayer to Open Laudato Si’ Week - May 16 - 24, 2020

in celebration of the 5th anniversary of the letter of Pope Francis to every person living on this planet.

Thank you, Province of USA-Haiti!

CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME

Preparation: This prayer may be done all at once (in about 30 minutes), or it can be spread out over the anniversary week. Whether you pray by yourself, or virtually with others – indoors or outdoors – create a focal point with pictures or objects that speak to you of Earth’s gifts, Earth’s losses, our failures, and your personal hope for our common home; get readers as needed; select music.

www.marysouthardart.org.Used with permission

Five years ago, on May 24, 2015, Pope Francis sent a letter to every person living on Planet Earth, about the urgent need to take care of Earth as our common home. He called his letter Laudato Si’ which means “praised be,” a title he borrowed from St. Francis of Assisi, known for his great love of nature. On his deathbed, nearly 1000 years ago, St. Francis sang a hymn of praise to Brother Sun, Sister Moon and all creation, singing again and again “praised be ….” The Children Are Asking,©M. Southard, CSJ 

This week during  May 16-24, 2020, the people of the world are gathering everywhere to celebrate the letter of Pope Francis, and listen again to his call to renew our commitment to care for Earth as the home we share. So, we gather now to remember the gifts creation has lavished on us, and give thanks for the progress we’ve made in caring for Earth as our mother, and sister, and home. We gather to mourn Earth’s losses and our failures toward her, and to advance our hope for the future of all life on this wonderful planet.

Music: Choose music that connects you joyfully with Earth — Suggestion: listen to a recording of “What a Wonderful World”, by Louis Armstrong:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE

Full Prayer

4 Moments: 

1. Gratitude...
2. Sorrow
3. Hope
4. Thoughts & Actions through the week

And the winners are...

Province of USA-Haiti

A very good idea!

Province of USA-Haiti

How beautiful is the forest!

Province of USA-Haiti

Care of our Planet

Province of USA-Haiti

Our solar project at Alma Mater Hospital began in 2016.  One of our Board Members, Gaston Jean, and the generous donation of EDF HELP in collaboration with CEFREPADE and AOG (a local association) the hospital received a gift of 100 KW of solar energy with a new generator for emergency backup.

An environmental benefit

Province of USA-Haiti

With imigrants... welcome!!!

Province of USA-Haiti