The International Union of Superiors General (UISG) has launched the Sowing Hope for the Planet, a project to encourage sisters and their colleagues and friends to live the message of Laudato Si’. A webinar, presented by Sheila Kinsey, FCJM coordinator of the project, featured a slideshow describing some of the opportunities being offered during 2018-2019.
Pope Francis has underlined the fundamental connection between the current environmental crisis and the social crisis, and has called for a personal and communal ecological conversion. He often reminds us “everything is interconnected.”
The campaign is an effort to coordinate the response of women religious and to give witness to hope. It takes its guidance from Laudato Sí’: “Our goal is not to amass information or to satisfy curiosity, but rather to become painfully aware, to dare to turn what is happening to the world into our own personal suffering and thus to discover what each of us can do about it.” (LS#19)
Organizers hope that the campaign will create a coordinated effort among the members of UISG; partner with organizations which are already working on care of the planet; develop an action statement for “Sowing Hope for the Planet,” to be adopted by the Board of UISG in May 2019 for action. Additional details of upcoming events are available here.
This project is a collaborative effort of the JPIC Commission under the principal sponsorship of USG and UISG and the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM). For questions regarding the campaign, please contact hopeforplanet@gmail.com.
The campaign is an effort to coordinate the response of women religious and to give witness to hope. It takes its guidance from Laudato Sí’: “Our goal is not to amass information or to satisfy curiosity, but rather to become painfully aware, to dare to turn what is happening to the world into our own personal suffering and thus to discover what each of us can do about it.” (LS#19)
Organizers hope that the campaign will create a coordinated effort among the members of UISG; partner with organizations which are already working on care of the planet; develop an action statement for “Sowing Hope for the Planet,” to be adopted by the Board of UISG in May 2019 for action. Additional details of upcoming events are available here.
This project is a collaborative effort of the JPIC Commission under the principal sponsorship of USG and UISG and the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM). For questions regarding the campaign, please contact hopeforplanet@gmail.com.
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