Laudato Si Congregation

Exploring Laudato Si

Shalom North America is hosting a reading and discussion of Pope Francis’s “Laudato Si,’ On Care for Our Common Home,” during Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. It’s a great time to visit or revisit this encyclical that the congregation has committed to, and to do so at the halfway point of AM’s Laudato Si’ Action Platform (LSAP) journey.

Chicago Pilgrimage of Hope

Earlier in the Fall, Sisters, Associates, and colleagues were invited to make a Pilgrimage of Hope during this Jubilee Year. It all began with Pope Francis’s invitation to encounter Christ in creation and restore our relationships with God, creation, and one another.

Hearing the Cry of the Earth and the Poor: ORCIE’s Mission to Ottawa

Just 10 days after Parliament resumed this September, members of the Office of Religious Congregations for Integral Ecology (ORCIE) were already knocking on doors on Parliament Hill, bringing faith-filled urgency to the climate conversation.

A Pilgrim of Hope

My experience of being a Pilgrim of Hope on behalf of creation started before the official start date of the Season of Creation, in mid-August, on my annual retreat on the Jersey shore. As in past years, I am so grateful for the opportunity to contemplatively walk the beach and communing with the ocean, for the horizon that lifts my gaze from my little problems into the infinite vastness of God’s love, for the sand under my feet and the breeze through my hair. How could I ever pay back creation and the God of Creation for what I am gifted with during this week?

Invitation to Pilgrimages of Hope

Pope Francis invited all people to make a Pilgrimage of Hope during this Jubilee Year, to encounter Christ in creation and restore our relationships with God, creation, and one another. Rooted in Laudato Si’, it underscores the moral responsibility of caring for the earth, a principle of Catholic Social Teaching.

Season of Creation – An Expression of SSND’s Call

Welcome to the Season of Creation, themed “Peace With Creation” in 2025!

Season of Creation 2025

The 2025 Season of Creation is taking place from 1 September to 4 October. It is a time of prayer, action, and community for all who recognize that caring for our common home is an essential expression of our faith.

Season of Creation 2024

Each year from September 1 to October 4, the Christian family unites for The Season of Creation, a worldwide celebration of prayer and action to protect our common home. This year, the theme for the season is “To hope and act with Creation”, a theme that resonates deeply with the SSND commitment to the integrity of creation.

Sharing in the Season of Creation

Nerina Murray, SSND Associate and ACC Committee member, writes, “Sunsets fill me with awe and hope for tomorrow. Sometimes sunsets make me sad because I think that I am now at the sunset of my life, not knowing what tomorrow may bring. Other times they make me joyful because a red sky usually promises the dawning of a beautiful next day.”

Plastic Free July - Use Your Voter Voice!

Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution so we can have cleaner streets, water ways, and beautiful communities. The movement has inspired participants in 190 countries! Each of us making a small change will collectively make a massive difference to our communities

Celebrate Our Oceans on World Oceans Day - June 8th 2024

World Ocean Day is an annual celebration on 8 June as well as a call for ocean and climate action throughout the year. This year's theme for World Oceans Day 2024 is Catalyzing Action for Our Ocean & Climate!

Biodiverity Day 2024 - Be Part of the Plan!

The International Day for Biodiversity (IDB) is celebrated every year on 22 May. This universal observance commemorates the adoption of the text of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on 22 May 1992 and provides a unique opportunity to foster wide support for the Convention, its Protocols and related action frameworks. Biodiversity Day 2024 campaign encourages us to "Be Part of the Plan"!

Florida 6th Graders Live Out Laudato Si' by Raising Money for Haiti

Sixth-grade students from Sarasota, FL, recently raised more than $2,000 for the people of Haiti. The students of St. Martha Catholic School held a fun and successful fundraising auction in April.

Season of Creation 2023 - Let Justice and Peace Flow

Learn more about the Season of Creation which began September 1st and runs until October 4th. A worldwide celebration of prayer and action to protect our common home! We share the common call to care for creation. We are co-creatures and part of all that God has made. Our wellbeing is interwoven with the wellbeing of the Earth.

An invitation: Help bring attention to Laudato Si’

As a Laudato Si’ congregation, we encourage others to take to heart the message of Laudato Si’. Recently, several ACCC members attended a Laudato Si’ Movement webinar that proposed one simple mustard-seed action: at the end of mass, as you greet the priest and other parish staff, mention Laudato Si’ and ask if the parish is engaged in creation care. Then send them a follow-up email (open post for template) with a list of resources. Help spread the word!

How do you live Laudato Si’?

How do you live Laudato Si’ in your everyday life? Watch brief responses from seven AM sisters below.

The Richness of Laudato Si” - On Care of Our Common Home

Compassion, relationality, love and selflessness — these are just some of the virtues that Pope Francis calls us to exercise in his encyclical Laudato Si’, On Care of Our Common Home.

Laudato Si Action

The Adoption of Sustainable Lifestyles is grounded in the idea of sufficiency, and promoting sobriety in the use of resources and energy.

Refuse to Use: Give up Single-Use Plastic Bottles

The Atlantic-Midwest Province are one of twenty-three congregations of Catholic sisters of LCWR Region 8 who will observe Catholic Sisters Week, March 8-14, with a challenge: do not consume beverages from single-use plastic bottles.

Laudato Si Survey - Year Two

Last year during the Season of Creation, we asked you to fill out a survey to see what we as a province were doing that already addressed the seven Laudato Si' goals. Once again we are asking you to take the survey This will help us see how our situation has changed over the year and it will help us formulate objectives for year two.