Ways to Get Involved: Education
Jubilee for the Earth
Jubilee for the Earth” is a podcast mini-series about biodiversity and our sacred story produced by the Missionary Society of St. Columban. We are a Society of priests and lay people who live and share the good news of the Gospel by working with those who are poor and exploited, including the earth.
Over the course of six episodes, we’ll explore the beauty of biodiversity and the threats it faces. We’ll travel around the world to hear from Columbans who are working to renew the face of the Earth. Grounded in Catholic Social Teaching, we hope that this podcast will help us all to see how caring for our common home is fundamental to our lives as people of faith and as global citizens.
The podcast will be published in time for the Season of Creation, September 2020. Sign up using the form below so you'll get notified when the podcast launches.
ECOLOGICAL CONVERSION: In Hope of “New Heaven and New Earth”
Ecological conversion” is a small work with 37 brief reflections written in ecological key by Fr. Eduardo Agosta Scarel, O.Carm., and published by the Carmelite NGO. It offers Catholic Christians and believers some considerations of faith to encourage us to undertake an active care for the environment, the earth, our common home.s.
Climate Action Day Morning Prayer
Climate Action Day Morning Prayer for parochial schools from the Archdiocese of Chicago (PDF). "Some high schools may have called a team together to plan an assembly about climate change. This prayer can be the opening prayer for that assembly or standalone if there is no assembly planned. An action component is included, enabling students to participate in this day of action which Pope Francis has endorsed."
Laudato Si’ study guide for high schools
Laudato Si’ study guide for high schools: "Introducing Curriculum on Laudato Si', Based on Pope Francis' Earth-Care Encyclical....Developed by the Carmelite NGO, this comprehensive Curriculum is available to ALL to download or in hard copies."
Teaching Kids to Care for God’s Creation
Author: Mary Elizabeth Clark, SSJ
Based on Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ (On Care for our Common Home), this book presents thirty well-designed lessons on learning what we can do—in the classroom, in the home, and in the community—to raise awareness and take action to ensure that our planetary home will be sustainable for future generations. The prayers and reflections in each chapter help us make care for the Earth part of our faith and spirituality. Go to this website to purchase a copy.
Healing Earth
Healing Earth is "a free, online environmental science textbook for upper level secondary school students, beginning college students, and adult learners ... Unlike any other environmental science textbook, Healing Earth presents an integral, global, and living approach to the ecological challenges we face on our extraordinary planet."
Mercy Ecology - Benson, VT
Mercy Ecology created by the Sisters of Mercy, are hosting a workshop at their Mercy Farm Eco-Spirituality Center in Benson VT.
On March 21, “Laudato Si' - A Call to Ecological Conversation” to consider key themes of the encyclical, and invite participants into experiential and prayerful reflection on how the natural world is revelatory of God, and of our kinship with all.
Mercy Ecology - Benson, VT
Mercy Ecology created by the Sisters of Mercy, are hosting a workshop at their Mercy Farm Eco-Spirituality Center in Benson VT.
On April 18, “Changing Climate: Solutions for Believers” to prayerfully create a pathway to a flourishing future in your home, your church organization, and within the broader society and to explore practical ways we can reduce our carbon footprint.
S.T.R.E.A.M. Symposium
On April 22, 2020 the Diocese of Toledo Catholic Education Department will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and the 5th anniversary of Laudato Si by holding a S.T.R.E.A.M. Symposium at Rosary Cathedral School. This event will highlight the ways our students are learning how to put our Catholic Social Justice Themes into action by engineering a solution to one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Theology of Healing Earth in Action Institute
Loyola University Chicago will sponsor its fourth Theology of Healing Earth in Action Institute (THEA) from June 21-27, 2020. The THEA Institute offers high school students the opportunity to learn about environmental justice and grow in their spirituality at one of the greenest campuses in the nation. During the week, high school students explore the sacred story of water through the disciplines of scripture, sacraments, ethics, and science.
Laudato Si Year
The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development…Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home. Young people demand change. They wonder how anyone can claim to be building a better future without thinking of the environmental crisis and the sufferings of the excluded. (Laudato Si’ 13)