You are invited to join the Northern Dioceses Environment Group and the Southern Dioceses Environment Network for this evening of celebration for the 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si’ – On the Care of Our Common Home.
The publication of the papal encyclical, Laudato Si‘, galvanised Catholics around the world and in every country to unite with those of all other faiths and none in the common cause of caring for our home planet and all the people on it.
Pope Francis urged us to integrate questions of justice into our debates on the environment, ‘so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’ – for they are one and the same thing. (LS, 49)
Both the Northern and Southern environment groups grew out of a desire to put the teaching of the encyclical into practice.
In this meeting our speaker and facilitator, Austen Ivereigh, will help us to reflect on where we have come in the last ten years and what we are being called to do in the next ten.
This is a ‘save the date’ notification for the next Northern Dioceses’ Environment Group (NDEG) in-person meeting.
The idea is to meet up at Leeds Cathedral, walk down to the Leeds and Liverpool canal (by the dark arches underneath Leeds City Station) and then walk along the canal towpath to get to Kirkstall Abbey (about 4 miles in total) and do it as ‘Pilgrims of Hope’.
More details to follow soon – but put it in your diary now if it sounds of interest.
