What We Do

Welcome to Scarboro Missions’ new Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Office (JPIC) Education Program called, Caring for Creation. This new program invites young people and adults to deepen their faith while focusing on caring for creation and caring for vulnerable peoples. In his encyclical, Laudato Si’, On Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis reminds us that the earth is our common home and that it is our responsibility to care for it. He calls us to a personal change of heart and a collective transformation that responds to “both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”

Caring for Our Common Home

Caring for Our Common Home is a five part workshop series exploring Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’, On Care for Our Common Home. He reminds us that the earth is our common home and that it is the responsibility of all people to care for it. He calls us to a personal change of heart and a collective transformation that responds to “both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”

This workshop series can be delivered either as a five part series or as individual topics that are of interest to your community.

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PART ONE:

The Integrity of Creation

Foster a new faith understanding of the integrity of creation and humanity’s relationship with it.

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PART TWO:

One Crisis: Cry of the Earth & Cry of the Poor. What is it Happening?

Understand the various symptoms and manifestations of the environmental and social crisis facing our common home.

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Part Three:

One Crisis: Cry of the Earth & Cry of the Poor. Why is it Happening?

Explore ethical, cultural, and spiritual roots of the environmental and social crisis facing our common home.

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Part Four:

Social Justice and Ecological Justice

Understand the principles of Catholic Social Teaching and their connection to social and ecological justice with a particular emphasis on Laudato Si’.

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Part Five:

We Are a New Creation

Discover our Christian vocation to care for creation and vulnerable peoples as well as explore ways of living contemplatively, simply, and prophetically.