The Environment Group

The group was formed in August 2008, with the objective of promoting a Christian outlook to maintenance and care of our physical environment. 

Initial activities of the group included:

- Facilitation of an energy audit of the presbytery and each of the three church buildings;

Over time, our group experienced a spiritual awakening… any concern for creation leads to deeper questions of human relationship with God, our Creator.

Our experience was a movement from the head to the heart and is what Pope John Paul II referred to as ’ecological conversion’ that is consistent with the Jesuit call, ‘Reconciliation with Creation.’

Anne Boyd csb speaks about an emerging consciousness:

‘We are part of an evolving Christian tradition, so we are trying to find meaning within that context. The cycle of life, death, resurrection is …the grammar of the Universe: emergence, chaos, transformation... We have it only in a human context, but if you put it in a total life context, you deepen and expand the role of the human in the whole universe story.’                          

(Madonna, Jesuit Publication, Nov-Dec. 2004)

We are on a Spiritual Journey, seeking deeper relations with God, creation, ourselves and our neighbour.

Read the article on our group by Giselle Lapitan in Province Express

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RESOURCES:

ARTICLES: Healing a Broken World - Promotio Lustitiae - Jesuit Report on Ecology Prophet for the Earth - An Exploration of the Thought of Fr Thomas Berry - National Catholic Reporter Fr Thomas Berry's dream for the earth - Ten ways to achieve it - National Catholic Reporter Environmental Activities Around Australia - Australian Jesuit Province "The Empathic Civilization"   - Jeremy Rifkin Let the Son Shine  - Charles Rue Using the Jesuit Toolkit in Ecological Reconcilation, Environmental Justice  - Mary Colwell

BOOKS: If Darwin Prayed - Bruce Sanguin A Modern Credo - Telling the Christ Story within the Context of Creation - Kevin Treston Climate Change Denial - Heads in the Sand - Hadyn Washington & John Cook The Great Disruption - How the Climate Crisis will Transform the Global Economy - Paul Gilding Grandad's Prayers of the Earth - Douglas Wood

	EXPERIENCES: Places to visit, weekends away, programs etc
	LINKS: ARRCC - Australian Religious Response to Climate Change Catholic Climate Covenant Catholic Earthcare EarthSong ESSC - Environmental Science for Social Change
	LITURGY: All Seasons: If Darwin Prayed - Bruce Sanguin Lent: Lenten Program 2012 - Living Faith - Wollongong Carbon Free Lent Calendar Stations of the Cross with John Paul II Ecological Stations of the Cross Grace of the Forest - Lent Stations of the Forest - Lent  Children's Liturgy: Earth Hour Australia Day: Prayers
	POETRY: The Summer Day - Mary Oliver God is Born - D H Lawrence God's Grandeur - G M Hopkins
	VIDEOS: The Wombat - Foundation for Global Community The Great Disruption - RSA Talk - with Paul Gilding The Global Village