• Home
  • About
    • Visit & Meet Us
      • Welcome
      • Directions & Contact
      • Parish Staff
      • Employment Opportunities
    • St. Lawrence Parish
      • Parish History
      • Our Campus
        • Pipe Organ
        • Grotto
      • Our Patron
      • Online Registration
      • Online Giving
    • Multimedia
      • Live Stream
      • Podcasts
      • Video Archive
  • Worship
    • Mass, Adoration, Confession
    • Coming Home
    • Liturgy of the Hours
    • Mass Intentions & Memorial Flowers
    • Mass of Christian Burial
    • Prayers for Others
    • Sacraments
      • Anointing of the Sick
      • Reconciliation
      • Baptism
      • Confirmation
      • Eucharist
      • Matrimony
  • Parish Life
    • Adult Faith Formation
      • Adult Faith
        • Laudato Si
          • Laudato Si Week 1
          • Laudato Si Week 2
          • Laudato Si Week 3
          • Laudato Si Week 4
          • Laudato Si Week 5
          • Laudato Si Week 6
      • Be My Witness
      • Eat Pray Learn
      • Parish Mission
      • Retreats
      • RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults)
    • Formation
      • Benedictine Oblates
      • Family Catechesis and Youth Ministry
      • Knights of Columbus
      • Vocations
    • Liturgical
      • Liturgical Ministries
        • Liturgical Schedule
      • Liturgy Committee
      • Music Ministry
    • Parish Service
      • Archive Committee
      • Finance Council
      • Funeral Luncheons
      • Ministers to Homebound
    • Communicate
      • Flocknote
      • News
      • Bulletins
      • Podcasts
    • Celebrate
      • Event Calendar
      • Photo Albums
      • Concert Series
    • Support
      • Stewardship
      • Online Giving
    • Outreach
      • Footprints
      • Food Pantry
      • Ministry of the Fibers
      • Soup Kitchen
      • SVdP Thrift Store
      • Hearts of Hope
      • Stephen Ministry
    • Muncie Pastorate
  • Our School
  • Protecting God's Children
    • Safe & Sacred
    • Report an Incident
    • Safe Environment
  • Ministerio Español
  • Muncie Catholic
|||

St. Lawrence Catholic Church

A Pastorate of the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana

  • Home
  • Directions & Contact
  • Muncie Pastorate
Facebook Twitter
Search
  • Home
  • About
    • Visit & Meet Us
      • Welcome
      • Directions & Contact
      • Parish Staff
      • Employment Opportunities
    • St. Lawrence Parish
      • Parish History
      • Our Campus
      • Our Patron
      • Online Registration
      • Online Giving
    • Multimedia
      • Live Stream
      • Podcasts
      • Video Archive
  • Worship
      • Mass, Adoration, Confession
      • Coming Home
      • Liturgy of the Hours
      • Mass Intentions & Memorial Flowers
      • Mass of Christian Burial
      • Prayers for Others
      • Sacraments
  • Parish Life
    • Adult Faith Formation
      • Adult Faith
      • Be My Witness
      • Eat Pray Learn
      • Parish Mission
      • Retreats
      • RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults)
    • Formation
      • Benedictine Oblates
      • Family Catechesis and Youth Ministry
      • Knights of Columbus
      • Vocations
    • Liturgical
      • Liturgical Ministries
      • Liturgy Committee
      • Music Ministry
    • Parish Service
      • Archive Committee
      • Finance Council
      • Funeral Luncheons
      • Ministers to Homebound
    • Communicate
      • Flocknote
      • News
      • Bulletins
      • Podcasts
    • Celebrate
      • Event Calendar
      • Photo Albums
      • Concert Series
    • Support
      • Stewardship
      • Online Giving
    • Outreach
      • Footprints
      • Food Pantry
      • Ministry of the Fibers
      • Soup Kitchen
      • SVdP Thrift Store
      • Hearts of Hope
      • Stephen Ministry
      • Muncie Pastorate
  • Our School
  • Protecting God's Children
      • Safe & Sacred
      • Report an Incident
      • Safe Environment
  • Ministerio Español
  • Muncie Catholic
  • “Laudato Si –On Care for Our Common Home” 

    Encyclical by Pope Francis 2015

     

    Laudato Si (PDF) from the Vatican

     


    We might call this a “study” but it is about seeing how God is inviting us to live in this beautiful gift of the earth—“Our Common Home” as Pope Francis calls it.  Some notes are provided.  There are questions to aid our pondering.  The important thing is that our hearts are formed to live as God would desire. 

    Some parts of this Encyclical are challenging, maybe even a little depressing.  But we are invited to hope and to respond to hard realities by cooperating with the Holy Spirit in our day to day choices.  This reflection might be a very good time to gently watch your thoughts and attitudes around how you use the resources of the earth, what you might take for granted and what you might change so that you are indeed a good steward of all the gifts of the earth that God has blessed you with.  What action will you do?

    Another invitation might be that as we have been practicing the slowing of our pace and our consumer tendencies during this Covid-19 time, we also pay attention to the “greening” of the earth as Hildegard of Bingen would call it.  Are you noticing the birds sing?  Are you watching the leaves make their way out, and the blossoms coming forth with their fragrances?  What prayer of thanksgiving for creation comes from your soul?

    Note: The numbers used at the end of a quote refer to the paragraph number of the document.

    Click below to begin!
     
    .Laudato Si  Home |  Week 1  |  Week 2  |  Week 3  |  Week 4  | Week 5 | Week 6
     

    If you would like to connect with others

    to discuss the readings thus far,

    join us for a Zoom online meeting.


    Click to join!

    Laudato Si  Home |  Week 1  |  Week 2  |  Week 3  |  Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6
     
    • Parish Life
      • Adult Faith Formation
        • Adult Faith
          • Laudato Si
            • Laudato Si Week 1
            • Laudato Si Week 2
            • Laudato Si Week 3
            • Laudato Si Week 4
            • Laudato Si Week 5
            • Laudato Si Week 6
        • Be My Witness
        • Eat Pray Learn
        • Parish Mission
        • Retreats
        • RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults)
      • Formation
        • Benedictine Oblates
        • Family Catechesis and Youth Ministry
        • Knights of Columbus
        • Vocations
      • Liturgical
        • Liturgical Ministries
        • Liturgy Committee
        • Music Ministry
      • Parish Service
        • Archive Committee
        • Finance Council
        • Funeral Luncheons
        • Ministers to Homebound
      • Communicate
        • Flocknote
        • News
        • Bulletins
        • Podcasts
      • Celebrate
        • Event Calendar
        • Photo Albums
        • Concert Series
      • Support
        • Stewardship
        • Online Giving
      • Outreach
        • Footprints
        • Food Pantry
        • Ministry of the Fibers
        • Soup Kitchen
        • SVdP Thrift Store
        • Hearts of Hope
        • Stephen Ministry
      • Muncie Pastorate

820 East Charles Street   |   Muncie, Indiana  47305   |   phone: 765.288.9223   |   fax: 765.289.9262

Login
powered by eCatholic®