Our new Cultivating Care for Our Common Home program seeks to strengthen efforts to renew the sacred balance in our interrelated world. In his 2015 letter, Laudato Si’, Pope Francis addresses every person living on this planet and appeals for a new dialogue and a new solidarity that includes everyone in the work of caring for our common home. He calls the world’s attention to a growing ecological and social imbalance that results in destructive impacts felt to the greatest extent by those who are most vulnerable — people struggling with poverty, future generations, and our wider family of living beings. Pope Francis names the roots of this imbalance as a profound ethical, cultural, and spiritual crisis. In response, he invites all of us to “set out on the long path of renewal” (Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ #202, 14, 119, 161…).
The Cultivating Care for Our Common Home program offers interactive presentations, workshops, and collaboration to Catholic parishes and other interested groups in Toronto who would like to explore and respond more deeply to Pope Francis’ call that everyone living on the planet actively engage in caring for our common home.
Program activities invite participants to cultivate care for our common home by:
- preparing the ground of one’s heart in prayer;
- developing ecological awareness, practices, and spirituality;
- fostering the growth of a culture of care, especially for the vulnerable;
- seeking and deepening relationships for neighbourhood, ecumenical, and interfaith collaboration.
For program information and booking please contact the coordinator Karen Van Loon at [email protected].
“The gravity of the ecological crisis demands that we all look to the common good…”
Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ #201.
