WE NEED PEACE
Notre Dame Virtual School’s Back to School Theme is WE NEED PEACE. This month will feature 170 Actions that can be implemented NOW. Watch the Pope’s Video Prayer for September: For the Cry of the Earth.
Notre Dame Virtual School’s Back to School Theme isAdditional Topics will be coming…
- Season of Creation – September 1-October 4
- International Day of Peace – September 21
- Virtual Prayer Service of the Clinton Franciscans and other women religious congregations (including the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur)
- SNDdeN Japan Remembers
170 Actions for Climate Action
The Pope Video: September 2024 – For the cry of the Earth
(August 30, 2024)
“Let us pray for the cry of the Earth.
If we took the planet’s temperature, it will tell us that the Earth has a fever.
And it is sick, just like anyone who’s sick.
But are we listening to this pain?
Do we hear the pain of the millions of victims of environmental catastrophes?
The ones suffering most from the consequences of these disasters are the poor,
those who are forced to leave their homes because of floods, heat waves or drought.
Dealing with the environmental crisis caused by humans, such as climate change, pollution or the loss of biodiversity,
begs responses that are not only ecological, but are also social, economic and political.
We must commit ourselves to the fight against poverty and the protection of nature, changing our personal and community habits.
Let us pray that each of us listen with our hearts to the cry of the Earth and of the victims of environmental disasters and climate change, making a personal commitment to care for the world we inhabit.”
By the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostolate of Prayer and the Eucharistic Youth Movement): https://www.popesprayer.va/
To see other videos and content about the Pope’s prayer intentions, go to: https://www.thepopevideo.org/In collaboration with Vatican Media [ https://www.vaticannews.va/en.html ] and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development https://www.humandevelopment.va/en.html
NCR
by Bryan Roewe (August 30, 2024)
A firefighter walks next to rising flames as a wildfire burns near the village of Vati, on the island of Rhodes, Greece, July 25, 2023. Extreme heat waves have seen Greece, Italy and Spain record all-time high temperatures with the heat index in several Middle Eastern countries reaching 152 degrees Fahrenheit, near the limit of human survival. (OSV News photo, Nicolas Economou, Reuters)
The pope set his prayer intention for September as “the Cry of the Earth,” aligning with the month long Season of Creation. Read more: https://www.ncronline.org/node/280821
Paper Lanterns (2016)
Paper Lanterns is the story of atomic bomb survivor, Shigeaki Mori, and his life long calling to tell the story of Normand Brissette, Ralph Neal and the ten other American POWs killed by the bombing of Hiroshima.
Two additional resource sites:
[ http://www.laudatosiplatform.org ]
[ https://www.sowinghopefortheplanet.org/ ]
