Blog Layout
Climate Sunday Service with Patricia & Emmet Devlin
Colm Holmes • Aug 14, 2021
Climate Sunday Service by ZOOM at 11.00am on Sunday 5.September 2021
What is Climate Sunday?
The Climate Sunday initiative is calling on all local churches across Great Britain & Ireland to hold a climate-focused service on any Sunday before COP26 (November 2021).
Our vision is to leave a lasting legacy of thousands of churches better equipped to address this critical issue as part of their discipleship and mission and to make a significant contribution to civil society efforts to secure adequate national and international action at COP26. More details at: https://www.climatesunday.org/
You will receive an email 24 hours and again 1 hour
before the event with the ZOOM link
Introduction to We Are Church Ireland Climate Sunday Service
What is Climate Sunday 5th September?
There three steps for participation 1. Worship 2. Commitment 3.Voice
(Link to the website for details)
Worship
We pray with other Christian congregations and communities in Britain and Ireland gathered in Glasgow. Our prayers and commitments will be offered to the representatives of nations attending the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference.
Commitment
To complement our prayers, we offer commitments
"Where your mind is, there your treasure lies" .
During our service, we invite you to make a commitment of action to towards the impacts of climate change. Below are some suggestions to choose from
Invest in Climate Justice
Reduce your consummation of fossil fuels
e.g, install solar PV panels and/or heat pump; change your energy provider to renewable sources.
Divest investments and/or pension funds from Armaments, Fossil Fuels and invest instead in ESGs (Ethical, Sustainable and Green) industries and enterprises.)
Change to an electric or hybrid car
Educational links
Awareness
Quizzes
Calculate your carbon footprint
Mindful Living
• Grow vegetables and or plant pollinators, and or include a wildflower patch in your garden
• Reduce single use plastic
• Reuse, Repair Recycle
• Replace a red meat meal with a plant substitute once a week or month
• Unplug from media one day /a week /or month
• Walk daily, weekly or monthly in a natural environment
• Meditate/reflect regularly on scripture verse, an image, poem, or quote celebrating nature
• Use public transport, where practical
• Reduce air travel and/or travel by land or sea
Voice
The sum of individuals’ response to stop climate will not achieve significant reductions in C02 and Greenhouse gases.
Communicate your concerns and opinions to Government agencies, public representatives at every level (local, national and international) and Corporations and media.
Join an NGO, or lobby group, write or email or telephone.
Women are a problem for the Catholic Church, an institution with ingrained misogyny - Soline Humbert
Papal plámás is no substitute for an end to discrimination against women
Vatican says NO to EQUALITY?
Dr Luca Badini Confalonieri with Fr Helmut Schüller
WAC International response to Instrumentum Laboris
It is a dull document but perhaps all the cans that have been kicked down the Synodal road will yet create a din that cannot be ignored.
Christchurch Cathedral June 30th 2024
The Tablet used WAC Ireland's "Last Supper" painted by Irish artist Nora Kelly on its cover
One of the leading thinkers in the Irish Church welcomes the Pope’s ‘change of culture’ but warns that it will peter out unless there are reforms to structures and institutions
Press Release 15 April 2024: Response to the Vatican letter "Dignitas Infinita"
Overall control of the Study Groups should be given to the Synodal Office
About us
We are working to develop inclusive communities based on our 6 Aims, while being open to engage with all sections of the church about our lives in the church today.
Useful Links
Contact Info
(086) 8151054
info@wearechurchireland.ie For correspondence & merchandise:
We Are Church Ireland
C/O 49 Rockfield Avenue,
Perrystown,
Dublin 12.
D12H6F6
We Are Church Ireland
C/O 49 Rockfield Avenue,
Perrystown,
Dublin 12.
D12H6F6