ABOUT

Laudato Si’ action Waitaha (Canterbury) is about hearing the Karanga (call) of Laudato si to care for our common home. This includes a call to ecological conversion and adopting what Francis called ‘an integral ecology’.

Whakarongo (deep listening) and Te Kupenga (networking) are central to this response in Waitaha (Canterbury). Our precious earth, our common home, is suffering as ‘the poorest of the poor’ among us and this Climate Crises is a Spiritual Crises where care for our common home is connected with Justice and care of the poor.

Our group was started by Sr Kathleen Rushton rsm, Kevin Gallagher, Joanne Hope, Jenny Carter, Kathleen Gallagher Ann Kennedy and Liz Roche, everyone is welcome.

In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us.

This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her.

‘We are called to an ecological conversion… where the effects of our encounter with Christ, become evident in our relationship with the world around us’ ‘Where the life of the spirit is not dissociated from the body or from nature or from worldly realities, but lived in and with them in communion with all that surrounds us.