Margo Delaney sent ECI this update:
At the beginning of Lent, St Joseph’s Parish Bonnybrook issued an invitation to all to join with us in following the “Acts of Love” for the Lenten season.
Each act called us to take a concrete step that would directly affect the way we live in committing ourselves to caring for our common home.
The acts followed a specific focus: Week 1 challenged us to be conscious in our use of energy; Week 2 called us to be aware in our purchase and use of food; Week 3 alerted us to ways we can be careful in our use of water; Week 4 reminded us of the harm done to the environment in a careless use of plastics; Week 5 invited us to be more diligent in recycling; Holy Week acts will lead us to be aware of the bountiful goodness of God in the paschal mystery of love in the life and death of Jesus and our need for conversion.
Each day, at the beginning of the liturgy, an act was/is placed on our Care for the Earth Tree and a larger copy posted at the entrance of the church so that all who come to pray there might read it and be motivated to act. Each act challenges us to refuse the habits of convenience that add to a toxic environment or that, by careless use, depletes the natural resources on which life depends.
Our hope is that by living these acts of love in our lives, we will become more aware of the need to treasure the gift of creation and be ever more conscious of how our actions can help save our planet for future generations.