Led by Fr Rob Esdaile

In 2015 Pope Francis published his letter Laudato Si', on 'Caring For Our Common Home', a letter which tapped into a dawning awareness of the pressures which threaten the future of human life on earth: habitat destruction, species loss, pollution, global temperature rise and what he called 'the globalisation of indifference'. But he gave those concerns a particularly Catholic Christian foundation, drawing on the mysticism of St. Francis and calling us all to ecological conversion, a concern both for the planet and, especially, for the poorest, who are always the first victims of Climate Change. Re-reading that letter in the wake of the COP26 intergovernmental conference in Glasgow in November 2021, we shall ourselves take time to reconnect with our own place in the beauty of Creation and try to discern paths of hope for ourselves as individuals, for the Church and for the global community.

Starts at 10am and ends at 4pm. Please bring a packed lunch.

You can attend this day in-person at the House of Prayer or online via Zoom. Please contact us for further information.

Cost: £30

Fr Rob is parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes, Thames Ditton and has been active in work for justice and peace all his adult life.