Canticle of Creation: Laudato Sí

Laudato Si’s distinctive theme, “care for our common home,” makes it a milestone that has touched our hearts profoundly and brought us together to advance our mission to care for our imperiled planetary home.

Striving for unity in diversity, organizational and grassroots members come together to pray, collaborate and mobilize in response to “the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”

You can learn more and engage in the Laudato Sí Movement at https://laudatosimovement.org/.

The Laudato Sí Movement has three strategic goals which are the guiding stars for all of our efforts:

1 – Ecological Conversion To encourage a change of heart of the Catholic faithful and motivate a more passionate concern for our common home, enshrining creation care as a Catholic priority.

2 – Full Sustainability To help the Catholic community lead by example by embodying the “Less is More” motto and shrinking its footprint to zero, in line with the urgency of the climate and ecological crises.

3 – Prophetic Advocacy To mobilize the Church to raise a prophetic voice for climate and ecological justice, calling for bold policies to accomplish the Paris Agreement’s goal of 1.5C and halt biodiversity collapse.

The founding group chose St. Francis of Assisi as the movement’s patron saint, recalling that he is the patron saint of ecology. (It’s worth noting that several Franciscan organizations were LSM founding members.)