Earth Day is Every Day!
Pope Francis has cautioned: “Creation is Groaning!” “We are running out of time!” What can we do about this situation?
Become informed and involved.
Websites:
Catholic Ecology Center, Neosho, WI
List of Recyclable Items at Our Lady of Lourdes
Writing instruments: pens, markers, highlighters (all with caps), glue sticks, and watercolor containers. Items are sent to BIC.
Toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes. Items are sent to Colgate and Tom’s of Maine.
Empty plastic pill bottles (please remove all labels). Items are donated to the Bread for Healing Clinic, Milwaukee.
Collection bins are located in the south hallway of the church.
A Prayer for Our Earth
All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures.
You embrace with your tenderness all that exists.
Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect life and beauty.
Fill us with peace, that we may live as bothers and sisters, harming no one.
O God of the poor, help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this earth, so precious in your eyes. Bring healing to our lives, that we may protect the world and not prey on it,
that we may sow beauty, and not pollution and destruction.
Touch the hearts of those who look only for gain at the expense of the poor and the earth.
Teach us to discover the worth of each thing, to be filled with awe and contemplation,
to recognize that we are profoundly united with every creature
as we journey towards your infinite light.
We thank you for being with us each day.
Encourage us, we pray, in our struggle for justice, love and peace.
Pope Francis, Laudato Si’