Walking Together

By Roger Fitzgerald 22 August 2023

Through its Caring for Creation movement, the Archdiocese is planning a synodal step forward in our early journeying together for the Year of the Holy Spirit.

A series of online dialogue and immersion sessions, the Integral ecology pilgrimage is being convened in collaboration with a leading-edge team from the Australian Catholic University.

The free online sessions will be at 6.30-8.30 pm on six Thursday evenings, 31-August to 5-October, during the ecumenical Season of Creation.

This is an opportunity to consider pathways for the archdiocesan Laudato Si’ Action Plan 2023-30 responding to Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical On Care for Our Common Home.

The pilgrimage is suitable for people of all ages, for ecumenical friends, for young leaders – and for those just wanting to find out more about why recent Popes, our Bishops and the Plenary Council are so strongly urging the Care for Our Common Home teachings.

All in the Archdiocese are invited to consider and explore aspects such as

why care for creation is a key part of the Christian faith journey, a way the Holy Spirit is moving in the world today
how creation and God’s incarnation in Jesus Christ are part of an integrated action of God’s loving, self-revelation and self-giving, and
that science and faith are complementary – our faith helps explain the meaning and purpose behind sciences like cosmology and ecology.

Participants will learn and experience –

why practical responses to global ecological and social crises are vital as contemporary Christian social justice
how a global and integrating Laudato Si’ movement is renewing our Churches, and
that faith-based responses of Christians and others working together, globally and locally, give hope.