\u2018The Lord has truly risen, alleluia\u2019 (Invitatory antiphon)<\/p>\n
\u2018LAUDATO SI\u2019 WEEK 16-24 MAY 2020\u2026 \u2018EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED\u2019<\/p>\n
When God created the world, God saw everything God created was good. Everything was connected and God\u2019s vision was for every being to live in harmony. When God created humanity, God saw it as very good. God called every man and woman to be stewards of all Creation; but \u2018the harmony between the Creator, humanity and creation broke down.\u2019 \u2018The rupture is sin.\u2019 (LS, 66).<\/p>\n
St Francis of Assisi, (1181-1226) loved God and God\u2019s Creation so much that he said, \u2018our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us.\u2019 (LS, no.1).<\/p>\n
Moving through the centuries, Pope Francis heard the call of the earth, \u2018she cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods which God has endowed her.\u2019 (LS, no.2) This is sad news for the people of the twenty first century. In our world we see the consequences of ‘the depletion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, decline in the quality of life and the breakdown of society.\u2019 Climate is a common good but climate change has reaped havoc particularly among people who live in poverty. Sadly, Covid-19 has added to the already existing crises. Patriarch Bartholomew spoke saying, \u2018each one of us\u2019 must \u2018repent of the ways we have harmed the planet.\u2019 (LS, no.8).<\/p>\n
The three questions Jesus asked his apostles in the Gospel today are also addressed to us as disciples.<\/p>\n
This Gospel proclaimed at Mass (Jn 16:5-11) can be heard via webcam or read from the New Testament. Jesus asks the apostles in this second farewell discourse three questions, \u2018What is the world\u2019s sin, in regard to me? … What is the path of righteousness? … What is the path of justice?\u2019 Jesus calls the disciples to believe in Jesus and follow his way of love. The Holy Spirit will continue to guide them and Jesus\u2019 promise to be with them remains forever.<\/p>\n
LAUDATO SI\u2019 WEEK (16-24 MAY, 2020)<\/p>\n
This is the fourth day, 19 May 2020, of Laudato Si\u2019 week, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis\u2019 encyclical on care for our common home. The overall theme of the week is \u201ceverything is connected.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yesterday the focus was on Laudato Si\u2019, an encyclical as \u2018Prophetic and Relevant as ever\u2019. Participants were reminded of the great need for an ecological conversion. This requires \u2018individual behaviour change.\u2019 The challenge for the future to address the crises of climate injustice and Covid-19, is to alleviate poverty and to immediately heighten awareness of those persons \u2018who are under the line of dignity\u2019. We have heard much, we have seen much. Now is the time to act.<\/p>\n
During this week, Catholics everywhere are invited to reflect and pray for action. Resources are provided to help this preparation for action from 16-24 May 2020. Everyone is free to register for webinars on the Laudato Si\u2019 website.<\/p>\n
Work and study continue through participation in these online programmes. What is learned and acted on will be celebrated during the season of Creation, when Pope Francis invites Catholics to pray for our common home. The week connects the home, school, parish and the generations internationally.<\/p>\n
Participation in this dedicated week to Laudato Si\u2019, enables the entire population, especially those most at risk from climate injustices to hope \u2018for a better world to come tomorrow.\u2019<\/p>\n
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\u201cLAUDATO SI\u2019 AND THE CATHOLIC PRESCHOOL AND PRIMARY RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CURRICULUM FOR IRELAND\u201d (2015).<\/p>\n
The idea of including Pope Francis\u2019 encyclical Laudato Si, On Care For Our Common Home into the Grow in Love programme helps the home\/parish\/school to understand the \u2018Ecological Perspective\u2019 informing \u2018curriculum approach to content, the development of skills and the appreciation of values.\u2019 (The Catholic Preschool and Primary Religious Education Curriculum for Ireland 2015, (CPPRECI)).<\/p>\n
Children are taught from the Grow in Love programme, which follows the spiral curriculum of the Catholic Preschool and Primary Religious Education Curriculum for Ireland (2015), about the \u2018unique and special place of God\u2019s creation, the interconnection of all creation and are encouraged to develop affection, and care for all creation as a manifestation of the divine. They are taught to contemplate and respect the earth in all its complexity and beauty. The Celtic tradition of respect for God\u2019s creation is woven into the curriculum at every level. A Christian ecological worldview criticises patterns of consumption that relate to ecological degradation. Children are enabled to understand the concept of eco-sin and to develop an ecological conscience which calls for prophetic challenges to forces destroying the earth. (CPPRECI, p.24).<\/p>\n
Given that Grow in Love is designed to be used at home and in the school, it provides links with the parish community. Families are encouraged to teach their child about the faith they chose for them in Baptism, and continue to pass on every day. The role of parents and families in preparing children for the Sacrament of Reconciliation and the Sacrament of Eucharist is vital. Parents are invited to teach children about their faith in a way and in a context that is real and meaningful. With the support of the school and the parish community, it is hoped that parents\/guardian will accompany their child as they \u2018grow in love\u2019 of God and one another. (Grow in Love, Children\u2019s Book).<\/p>\n
All of creation reveals God\u2019s glory. Pope Francis says, \u2018Our insistence that each human being is an image of God should not make us overlook the fact that each creature has its own purpose. None is superfluous. The entire material universe speaks of God\u2019s love, his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were, a caress of God.\u2019 (Laudato Si\u2019, 84).<\/p>\n
The care of the earth takes a prominent place in the curriculum and this is reflected in Grow in Love. The CPPRECI states that, \u2018In the Catholic school, ecological respect and concern are rooted in a scripturally-based theology of creation and related ethical considerations. God creates and gives us the gift of creation to care for and celebrate, and the Christian hope for the final renewal for all creation at the end of time encourages our commitment to cultivate and care for the earth (CCC 1042)’.<\/p>\n
So this week, as the Church honours the fifth anniversary of Laudato Si\u2019, the children are enabled to grow in familiarity with the teaching of Pope Francis through Grow in Love. With the spiral curriculum, the work of one class level is built on a previous class level, so the Christian Morality Strand with Strand Units, \u2018Human Dignity\u2019, \u2018Social Teaching of the Church\u2018 and \u2018RSE in a Christian Context\u2019 are built and taught on a solid foundation.<\/p>\n
\u2018LAUDATO SI\u2019\u201d AND THE GROW IN LOVE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAMME<\/p>\n
Further to the content taught in Junior Infants\/ Senior Infants\/P2 and First Class\/P3, in SECOND CLASS\/P4 the children are encouraged to build on their exploration of the Creation story from the Book of Genesis (1:27-31). They discuss the story of Adam and Eve and what happened to them. It was God\u2019s desire for the plan of Creation that all beings would live in harmony with God and with each other. Adam and Eve disobeyed God because they were tempted into believing that they were not made in the image of God. They thought they could become like God by eating the fruit from the tree. Sin entered the world. God in God\u2019s goodness did not abandon God\u2019s Creation. God promised to send a Saviour who would reconcile God\u2019s people with God, with one another and with God\u2019s Creation. The Saviour was Jesus.<\/p>\n
Grow in Love SECOND CLASS\/P4, invites the children as they grow in faith to appreciate their God-given gifts and talents. As children are formed in their faith, they develop the Christian virtue of a sense of wonder and reverence for God\u2019s creation. They appreciate their dignity and worth as created and loved by God. Children grow in respect of their bodies and the bodies of others because they were created by God.<\/p>\n
Children grow in their understanding of human dignity, as they hear the story of St Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) who was deeply committed to the work of justice and charity through collaboration with others. St Vincent de Paul is a household name. He founded the Vincentian Order of priests in 1625. With St Louise de Marillac (1591-1660) he co-founded the Daughters of Charity (1633). In the early years he established the Confraternities of Charity with his collaborators, which is now known as the Society of St Vincent de Paul (1833). The Vincentian Family lives out the Vincentian charism internationally today.<\/p>\n
Children are encouraged to nourish their faith and have an active love for their neighbour through prayer and reading Sacred Scripture, making the world a better place and supporting Tr\u00f3caire, the Society of Missionary Children and other charities. They learn that by their prayer, and their lived faith, goodness and love that they can care for our common home. The Holy Spirit will help them as will their parents\/ guardian, teachers and others in the local parish community.<\/p>\n
In SECOND CLASS\/P4, children have a heightened awareness about the Green Flag Award. They, with their school colleagues are invited to participate in a seven-step programme covering a variety of topics from litter and waste to climate change. All of the themes covered by the Green Flag Award are explored by Pope Francis in Laudato Si\u2019.<\/p>\n
Resources are available including a Children\u2019s Grow in Love e-book, with poems and prayers and activities on the VERITAS Grow in Love website to support this this Christian Morality Strand.<\/p>\n
Logon: www.veritas.ie<\/p>\n
Email: trial@growinlove<\/p>\n
Password: growinlove<\/p>\n
The following RESOURCES, for SECOND CLASS\/P3 may be helpful, in addition to the resources and online activities for Junior Infants\/P1, Senior Infants\/P2 and First Class\/P3: Slide show on \u2018Our Gifts and Talents\u2019, \u2018St Vincent de Paul\u2019: Videos on \u2018Thank You for Making me\u2019, God Created People\u2019, \u2018What God wants\u2019, \u2018Adam and Eve\u2019,\u2019 The Society of St Vincent de Paul\u2019: Poem, \u2018I am Unique\u2019,: Online interactive Activity, \u2018 Treasure Trail\u2019, \u2018Snake\u2019 : Poster on \u2018Adam and Eve\u2019: Colouring Page on \u2018Adam and Eve\u2019;, \u2018Vincent de Paul\u2019.\u2019<\/p>\n
SONGS from Grow in Love related to the theme of Creation in SECOND CLASS\/P4, in addition to those taught in Junior Infants\/P1, Senior Infants\/P2 and First Class\/P3 : \u2018When Creation Was Begun\u2019, \u2018Grow in Love\u2019, \u2018Quiet and Still\u2019, \u2018The Apostles\u2019, \u2018Baptism Song\u2019, \u2018Lay Your Hands\u2019, \u2018I\u2019m Sorry God\u2019, \u2018Zacchaeus\u2019, \u2018This is the Day\u2019, \u2018When Jesus was a Boy\u2019, \u2018Jesus Loves Children\u2019, \u2018Circle of Friends\u2019, \u2018 The Lord, He is My Shepherd, Psalm 23\u2019, \u2018Alleluia, Alleluia, give thanks\u2019 , Christ Be Beside Me\u2019, \u2018The Spirit of God is Upon Us\u2019, Gifts From God\u2019, and \u2018This Little Light of Mine\u2019 and Reflective Music.<\/p>\n
PRAY with Grow in Love\/I nGr\u00e1 D\u00e9<\/p>\n
GLORY BE TO THE FATHER<\/p>\n
Glory be to the Father,<\/p>\n
And to the Son,<\/p>\n
And to the Holy Spirit;<\/p>\n
As it was in the beginning,<\/p>\n
Is now, and ever shall be,<\/p>\n
World without end. Amen.<\/p>\n
GL\u00d3IR DON ATHAIR<\/p>\n
Gl\u00f3ir don Athair,<\/p>\n
Agus don Mhac,<\/p>\n
Agus don Spiorad Naomh,<\/p>\n
Mar abh\u00ed \u00f3 thus,<\/p>\n
Mar at\u00e1 anois<\/p>\n
Agus mar a bheas go br\u00e1ch,<\/p>\n
Le saol na saol. \u00c1im\u00e9an.<\/p>\n
CARE FOR THE EARTH<\/p>\n
God our Creator, you have given us<\/p>\n
the earth, and the sky and the seas.<\/p>\n
Show us how to care for the earth, not<\/p>\n
just for today but for ages to come.<\/p>\n
Let no plan or work of ours damage<\/p>\n
or destroy the beauty of your creation.<\/p>\n
Send forth your Spirit to direct us to<\/p>\n
care for the earth and all creation. Amen.<\/p>\n
C\u00daRAM DON DOMHAN<\/p>\n
A Dhia \u00e1r gCruthaitheoir, thug t\u00fa an<\/p>\n
talamh, an sp\u00e9ir agus na farraig\u00ed d\u00fainn.<\/p>\n
Taispe\u00e1in d\u00fainn conas aire a thabhairt<\/p>\n
don domhan, n\u00ed hamh\u00e1in don l at\u00e1 inniu ann,<\/p>\n
ach do na haoiseanna at\u00e1<\/p>\n
le teacht freisin.<\/p>\n
N\u00e1 milleadh aon phlean n\u00e1 obair<\/p>\n
againne \u00e1illeacht do chruthithe.<\/p>\n
Seol do Spioraid chugainn chun<\/p>\n
cabhr\u00fa linn aire a thabhairt don<\/p>\n
domhan agus don chruth\u00fa ar fad.<\/p>\n
\u2018In a short time the world will no longer see me; but you will see me, because I live in you and you will live, alleluia.\u2019 (Benedictus antiphon).<\/p>\n
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\u2018I tell you the truth: it is for your good that I am going because unless I go, the Advocate will not come, alleluia\u2019 (Magnificat antiphon).<\/p>\n
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\u2018If I walk in the midst of trouble, you give me life. With outstretched arm, you save me from the wrath of my foes, with your right hand you deliver me.\u2019 (Psalm 137:7).<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe violence present in our hearts, wounded by sin, is also reflected in the symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in the air and in all forms of life. This is why the earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
(Laudato Si\u2019, 2)<\/p>\n
Sr Anne Neylon<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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