Raising Awareness on Earth Month

There are many ways that you can participate: 

• Caring for God’s Creation (usccb.org)
• Animators - Laudato Si Animators
• Earth Day 2024 Now Available (salsalabs.org)
• Earth Day (sanantonio.gov)

On April 16, we raised awareness about "Earth Month" and we planted local and native plants in this local southwest parish.  Saint Timothy pray for us.  Saint Timothy was a recipient of two epistles of Saint Paul.  Now, St. Timothy Catholic Church is a recipient of a little native pollinator and herb garden.

The parish did not have any garden nor ornamental plants so in honor of the Earth Day, we put together plants that are resilient of Texas weather.  The plants chosen are natives so that they are low maintenance and does not require much watering.  The native plants are also food for the local species. This is a collaborative effort of St. Timothy Religious Education Youth Group, IWS JPIC, and Laudato Si SA Circle.  Earth Day is celebrated officially on April 22.  On the other hand, Earth Month is being celebrated for the whole month of April to raise more awareness and get participation of all people of the world regardless of ethnic background, race, and religion.  We all live in the same planet so we can all contribute in some ways to care for it.  It is being celebrated by almost all countries in the world (

13 Earth Day Facts Most People Don't Know (goodhousekeeping.com).

Before we ended our day, we made a pledge as a prayer (i.e. adapted from USCCB's program on Prayer for Creation)

Pledge of Commitment

To Protect and Heal God's Creation

This Pledge of Commitment may be read in unison or in alternation:

We have come to renew our covenant with God and with one another in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
We have come to help protect God's creation.

We have come as followers of Jesus to commit ourselves anew to one another and to heal injustice and poverty.

We have come to stand together against all threats to life.

We have come to discover some new beauty every day in God's creation: the sunrise and sunset, birds, flowers and trees, rainbows in the sky, the stars, the many forms of life in the forest.

We have come to listen to the "music of the universe"- water flowing over rocks, the wind, trees bending in the wind, raindrops pattering the roof.

We will remember always that God speaks to us through the beauty of his creation, and we will try our best to answer God's call to reverence all that he has created.

Check your local governments and organizations, how you can get involved.  You can also organize your own events and register it in Earth Day: The Official Site | EARTHDAY.ORG

Join us in forming Laudato Si San Antonio Circle as encouraged by our Bishop of San Antonio.  Get in touch with us.  Send us a message (laudatosisacircle@gmail.com).