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Commitment to Laudato Si’ Action Platform

As we celebrate Laudato Si’ Week, 22-29 May 2022 to mark the seventh anniversary of Pope Francis’ Encyclical on the Care of Creation, we are joining hundreds of thousands of Catholics to celebrate the progress made in bringing the Pope’s encyclical Laudato Si’ to life. It is also a way to intensify our efforts through the Laudato Si’ Action Platform, promoted by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

In responding to Laudato Si’s call to integral ecology, we have made a conscious commitment to justice, peace and integrity of creation that prompts us to join and be part of the large network of individuals and collective initiatives towards the 7 year journey to ecological conversion. This video clip by our Superior General, Sr. Monica Mary Ncube, is in support and promotion of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform on Care for our Common Home.

Laudato Si’ Congregational Action Plan

As we step into the Jubilee Year from December 2024 to 2025,
let us invite God the Holy Spirit to enable us to be real pilgrims of Hope
in our communities and among the people we serve.

Father in heaven,
may the faith you have given us
in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother,
and the flame of charity enkindled
in our hearts by the Holy Spirit,
reawaken in us the blessed hope
for the coming of your Kingdom.

May your grace transform us
into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel.
May those seeds transform from within both humanity
and the whole cosmos
in the sure expectation
of a new heaven and a new earth,
when, with the powers of Evil vanquished,
your glory will shine eternally.

May the grace of the Jubilee
reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope,
a yearning for the treasures of heaven.
May that same grace spread
the joy and peace of our Redeemer
throughout the earth.
To you our God, eternally blessed,
be glory and praise for ever.
Amen (more…)