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The Laudato Si Action Platform is a major initiative to enable the universal Catholic church to implement Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical on the environment and creation care. As you have likely heard in the news, we are all invited to learn and grow together and heed the call of Pope Francis to take “decisive action, here and now…with the Church fully committed to playing her part” to care for each other and our co
mmon home. The Laudato Si Action Platform involves all segments of the church and society including families, parishes, educational institutions, health care facilities, businesses, agricultural facilities, and religious communities.
The Franciscan Sisters of Peace are joining hundreds of religious orders around the world in issuing their public Statement of Commitment to the Laudato Si Action Platform.
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Laudato Si Action Platform Commitment
As Franciscan Sisters of Peace, we endeavor to follow in the footsteps of Francis, the man from Assisi, who understood the interconnection of all of creation and expressed his kinship with Brother Sun, Sister Moon, and our Sister Mother Earth.
In our 20
19 Chapter Direction Statement, we challenged ourselves to make intentional choices to steward the gift of creation and respond to the threat of climate change.
Therefore, we, the Franciscan Sisters of Peace and Associates, now choose to further grow in our Franciscan values and walk with others who are on the journey to sustainability. We publicly commit to join the worldwide Catholic community in responding to the appeal of Pope Francis to participate in a seven year journey toward integral ecology.
We accept our responsibility to respond to the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth, and will strive to deepen our reverence for the presence of God in all of creation, maintain a simple lifestyle, and learn about, and then change, the ways we contribute to the climate crisis.Leadership Team
Franciscan Sisters of Peace
Haverstraw, NY
November 2021
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As Laudato Si Week concluded on May 25, a new project focused on religious communities was launched- the Creation Care Prayer Network! This project is a world-wide effort of the Catholic Church to unite religious and lay communities who will commit to pray for the healing of our common home. Major sponsors include:- Global Catholic Climate Movement
- Franciscan Friars Generalate
- International Union of Superiors General.
Our congregation has joined the Creation Care Prayer Network as a means of living up to our Chapter Direction Statement in two ways: “to be in solidarity with those who suffer” and to make “intentional choices to steward the gift of creation and respond to the threat of climate change”. By joining the Prayer Network we are giving public witness to our commitment, along with more than 200 congregations in over 35 countries on 5 continents.
For more information and to join the network - www.laudatosipray.orgPlease join us in praying for the following intention during the month of January:
For the approximately 800,000 South Sudanese people who are impacted by floods of “biblical proportions”, which destroyed their livelihoods and left minimal access to humanitarian services
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Minores Fund
We, the Franciscan Sisters of Peace, continually respond to the call to be servants and to enter into solidarity with the “Minores” of our time- called to make the concerns of the poor and powerless our own.
The Minores Fund is a congregation fund that directly serves today’s poor and powerless in ways that are connected to our charism and Franciscan values, and are reflected in our Chapter Direction Statement.
The most recent grant from the Minores Fund was for support of Seafarers & International House in New York city. Since 1873, Seafarers, operating under the auspices of the Lutheran Church, has responded to the urgent needs of vulnerable seafarers and immigrants. Funds were sent to the organization in support of the annual ‘Christmas At Sea’ program, which provides satchels of warm clothing to seafarers who are confined to ships due to long term contracts, and more so this year due to the lengthy delays in getting ships into port. We view these seafarers as “unseen essential workers” during the current pandemic, which keeps them separated from family during the holidays.
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In Memoriam
Sr. Ruth McDonnell, FSP died peacefully on December 20, 2021 at Cabrini of Westchester in Dobbs Ferry, NY. Ruth was born in
New York City on November 2, 1929 to Katherine and Harry McDonnell. She attended Immaculate Conception Grammar School in the Bronx and an annex to Cathedral High School in Manhattan, graduating in 1947. She went on to earn her Bachelor’s degree at Hunter College, graduating in 1951. After working for two years on Wall Street, NY, Ruth felt a strong call to religious life and to the teaching profession. She learned about the Franciscan Sisters of Peekskill while on a discernment retreat and entered the novitiate in September of 1953.
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Sr. Charlotte Koch died peacefully on
December 6, 2021 at Cabrini of Westchester in Dobbs Ferry, NY. Charlotte was born in Hoboken, NJ on March 14, 1943 to Kathryn Ruff and Henry Koch. She had one brother, Robert. As a child, Charlotte attended Charles DeWolf Elementary School in Old Tappan, NJ and graduated from Ladycliff Academy, Highland Falls, NY in June 1960. After graduating from high school, Charlotte entered the Franciscan Sisters Novitiate in Peekskill, NY in September 1960.
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