Laudato Si Animators Formation for Youth

San Antonio Laudato Si Animators conducting workshops in Parishes or your communities:  send an email to laudatosisacircle@gmail.com to participate or know more information.

From February 5 - March 25, we are conducting Gospel and Laudato Si Integration workshops in St. Timothy Parish, join us through Zoom meeting with details below.  More importantly, if you are youth or young adults, we encourage you more.

Our first class on February 5 joyously commenced with food followed by icebreaker about fruit, introduction on topic about Laudato Si, the encyclical of Pope Francis, Theology of Creation, and the Integral Ecology.  The participants had a glimpse of how God love the creation not only human beings.  This love is our calling as human beings to love the whole creation.  

Our second class on February 12 was celebrated with sustainability in mind with the topic "The Climate and the Environment".  The formators Frances and Sister Marylou made sure that there will be least amount of trash by using real fork, spoons, plates, glasses, and table napkins.   We had macaroni and cheese on the instant pot, home-baked cookies, sandwiches, and fresh strawberries.  We also had water dispenser to encourage the youth to refill their glasses. It will take time to stay away from bad habits, but you know what, our youth are on their way.  We had Thomas who is an environmentalist, and who joined us in zoom from College Station and our regular online participant Carmen from out of state.  

We fashioned ourselves to be the plants, animals, and other parts of creation with a ball of string in our hands.  We identified our connections with each other, and we ended up our strings tangled up.  This is what the ecology is about, that our lives, lives of other creatures, and environment are interconnected.  In our session, we all saw what is happening in Texas in terms of the environment given the number of oil refineries here, plastics pollution in landfill and oceans, and the toxins from agrobusiness.  We can do so much this lent by being green in our actions and lifestyle.  By developing a good ecologically conscious habit, we are becoming one with nature where the plants are our sister, the animals are our sister, the mother nature is our sister, and etc.  When we value something as our sister or brother, we give importance and dignity to such.

 

On our third class, February 19, the Zoom Meeting details are provided below.  Our topic will be about The Ecological Justice. In this workshop session, we are going to discuss whether individual solution is enough.  What is the importance of getting connected to a community of the same cause.  We are also going to talk about systemic solution.  We will encourage our youth to think about their project so that they can animate or concretize the care for our common home.

https://christushealthvideo.zoom.us/j/97107458835?pwd=bEEray8zTGgvYTBybVY1VnlmS0syUT09

Password: (email me for password = laudatosisacircle@gmail.com)

Meeting ID: 971 0745 8835

Thank you to our sponsor simpleecology in etsy for providing us a free item which will be given away in the coming weeks once available.  Visit them SimpleEcology - Etsy

See you in zoom or in St. Timothy.

For those in parishes and universities, Laudato Si Texas Chapter is running a contest.  See below for more information: