Caring for Creation - Gold Award - Eco-Aware Parish

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On 4 December 2022, Bonnybrook Parish received the highest award for an eco-aware parish. This was granted by Eco Congregation Ireland and was presented to Sr. Margo and her team by Archbishop Dermot Farrell.

Eco Congregation Ireland (ECI) is a project of the Irish Inter-Church Meeting that encourages churches to adopt an eco-friendly approach to all aspects of church life.

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Our path to becoming an eco-aware parish began when Pope Francis’s letter, Laudato Si’, became an issue for discussion at one of our Parish Pastoral Council meetings. It was agreed that care for creation become a specific ministry in the parish. Subsequently, a group of interested people gathered together and so the journey began.

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Over the past four years small but significant steps were taken, and at each stage, a report of these activities sent to ECI. As a result, we received our first certificate, Awareness Certificate and then the Endeavour Certificate in March 2020.

Despite lockdown, work continued and on receiving our last application for the final audit, ECI informed us that we are now an eco-aware parish. The visit of the ECI assessors could not take place due to COVID 19 restrictions. However, as soon as circumstances allow, we look forward to welcoming the assessors to our Sunday liturgy. We know that their encouragement will confirm us in our desire to live as an eco-aware community, recalling Pope Francis’s statement:

“Love, overflowing with small gestures of mutual care, is also civic and political, and makes itself felt in every action that seeks to build a better world” (LS 231)

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Season of Creation    1 September - 4 October 2024

Season of Creation
1 September - 4 October 2024

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Eco-Aware Events in September 2024

  •  1 September - 4 October 2024
    Season of Creation

    This year we will unite around the theme “To hope and act with Creation” with the symbol “The firstfruits of hope”, inspired by Romans 8:19-25.

    For more information click HERE.

  • 5 September 2024
    International Day of Charity

    Charity, like the notions of volunteerism and philanthropy, provides real social bonding and contributes to the creation of inclusive and more resilient societies.

    For more information click HERE.

  • 16 September 2024
    International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

    The ozone layer, a fragile shield of gas, protects the Earth from the harmful portion of the rays of the sun, thus helping preserve life on the planet.

    For more information click HERE.

  • 20 September 2024
    World Clean Up Day

    The aim of World Cleanup Day is to activate 5% of the world's population that will catalyse lasting societal change in behaviour around mismanaged waste.

    For more information click HERE.

  • 22 September 2024
    World Car-free Day

    Car-free days are an opportunity for cities to highlight how congested roads can be used in different ways.

    For more information click HERE

  • 26 September 2024
    World Environmental Health Day

    Climate Change and disaster risks are fundamental threats to sustainable development, the living and health conditions for all humans on the globe and the reduction of poverty.

    For more information click HERE

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