Laudato Si’ Week, with the theme “Seeds of Hope”, will be marked across the UK on 19-26 May.
Events include an online webinar, “Imagining a Christian Response to the Climate Crisis”, on 23 May with Sarah Augustine, organised by the Scottish Laity Network in collaboration with Eco-Congregation Scotland, Justice and Peace Scotland and Sciaf.
There will be a Care of Creation week at Boarbank Hall, Cumbria, from 25 May. Advertised as “a week to explore how to live out Laudato Si’ fully in our personal lives and within the Church”, it will be led by Sr Margaret Atkins of Boarbank Hall and John Paul de Quay of the Ecological Conversion Group.
The Northern Dioceses’ Environment Group, linked to the National Justice and Peace Network of England and Wales, has organised a “Faith in Food Day” at St Wildred’s Parish in Preston on 18 May, focusing on “connecting our food system to our faith, our local area and the world”.
A downloadable eight-day celebration guide, produced by Laudato Si’ Week 2024, is the key resource.
Through inspirational quotes, practical activities, reflections and prayers, the guide aims to inspire meaningful change in Catholic groups’ interaction with the environment. Each day a specific theme is proposed that addresses aspects of integral ecology, such as waste reduction, renewable energy use and water conservation. There is a link to resources such as “Get outside Bingo” and Cafod’s Laudato Si’ materials for schools.
On Earth Day on 22 April St Michael’s Catholic College in Bermondsey, South London, launched a week of assemblies, focusing “on how we as a school can respond to Pope Francis’ call in Laudato Si’ to care for our common home.”
The same day, the Laudato Si’ Centre in the Diocese of Salford tweeted reflections from the 2015 encyclical. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales highlighted on its website the danger of plastic pollution and the “urgent need to reduce its use and production”.
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