Participate in a period of formation from January 19 to 21, including a conference at the Catholic University Santa Maria La Antigua, a retreat and workshops. After, you will be helping us during WYD to spread the Laudato si’Message through the Franciscan Ecovillage, at the Laudato si’ concert and around the whole city.
The JPIC commission is holding a series of the seminar with the movie screening to raise consciousness on climate change among the public
It was the extraordinary experience of grace, with warm hospitality from the Syrian friars both in Aleppo and in Damascus. We brought to those communities a cross which was a gift from the friars of La Verna and a stone taken from the spot of stigmatization with the hope that their wounds could be transformed into wounds of salvation.
Franciscans Peacebuilding in Colombia
Men and women in community, social and ecclesiastic engagement
Ecological marches were performed where the streets and community green spaces were swept away. Some marches in schools and convents also included the program of greening their gardens, etc. In other fraternities, there were workshops on recycling, herbal and traditional medicine, homemade water filters, organic compost for gardening. As a result, the novitiate house decided to grow vegetables in an organic way. Some sessions of special reflection on the care of our Common Home were organized for children, youth and adults in the parishes of the indigenous people. There were also held ecological conferences in some other communities. They organized programs on the encyclical Laudato si’which they broadcast on the radio in the town.
As a response to Laudato si, we built a stable in St Bonaventure College by reusable materials with the help of Legion of Mary last Christmas.