In 2018, during the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation,
Pope Francis addressed the following challenge to all people of faith:

…our active commitment is needed to confront this (climate) emergency. We need to pray as if everything depended on God’s providence, and work as if everything depended on us.

As Religious Sisters of Charity we have heard similar words from the time of Venerable Mary Aikenhead to the present. They resonate in our hearts and lead us to action to Care for our Common Home.

The U.N. Secretary-General emphasised in July 2023 that the era of global warming has ended, and the era of global boiling has arrived. Action and ecological conversion are now an imperative. After our 28th General Chapter, our Congregational Leader appointed our Care of our Common Home Committee for a 3-year period as from September 1st, 2021.

This Committee presented the document The Congregation and Laudato Sí’ to sisters and colleagues at our Assembly in March 2023.
The document is based on the call of the 2015 Laudato Sí’ encyclical. It is firmly placed within our revised Constitutions and the writings of our Foundress. Our concentration for the coming year is on the goal of Ecological Spirituality from the Laudato Sí’ Action Platform. This goal encourages us towards ”greater contact and connections with the natural world in the spirit of wonder, praise, joy, happiness and gratitude.“

Please join us by responding prayerfully and actively to our document,
The Congregation and Laudato Sí’.