Sylvia Thompson sent ECI this latest news from the Diocese of Kerry, in this special 5th anniversary year for Laudato Si:
The Season of Creation is coming up very soon so we have been preparing for some months now.
The theme chosen this year by the Laudato Si’ Working Group of the Council for Catechetics (Irish Bishops) is Cultivating Hope. A Faith Response to the Climate Crisis.
We have prepared a leaflet or brochure and this year were delighted to do so in conjunction with the Laudato Si’ Working Group. This leaflet is available for all dioceses across the country. It focuses on how we can cultivate hope by our actions at home, in our parishes and local communities across the different areas of biodiversity, food, plastic pollution and the climate crisis.
Find this and all the other resources on www.catholicbishops.ie (Search ‘Season of Creation’).
All parishes will be advised of the liturgical resources on this website and encouraged to use them on at least one Sunday during the Season.
Then on Thursday September 17th at 8pm we are going to host a webinar on the same theme again in conjunction with the LS Working Group. Lorna Gold will be our keynote speaker and she will be joined by a panel of local people of different ages already involved in various ways. The invitation to register for the free webinar will be publicised in the middle of August (see www.dioceseofkerry.ie).
Finally the JPIC committee will circulate its own prayer and reflection resource to be used at an outside gathering in parishes during the Season and will host its own outside event in Tralee on September 1st (weather and Coronavirus permitting).