ALL ACTIONS

This page lists all the actions spread across our site. You can use this list to help your parish plan what activities they will take up on their Journey. You can see these actions in the context of how they fit into parish life in our Parish Guide to Laudato Si’. Explore here

To help you choose actions that suit your parish’s needs, you can filter the results by areas of parish life, The Vatican’s Laudato Si’ Goals, The livesimply Award categories, or even mix and match!

Host a repair café for the wider community

Build and Support the circular economy.

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Investigate your community’s ethical consumption

Use the Parish Ethical Consumption Toolkit resource to review all aspects of parish consumption, including energy, communications, cleaning etc.

https://justmoney.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Ethical-Purchasing-Policy.pdf

Become a Fairtrade community

Commit to using Fair Trade and ethical products for all church activities. Communicate this with the parish, highlighting why it’s important (through posters/noticeboard etc.),

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GIVE SOMEONE A LIFT

Help cut down traffic and air pollution by sharing your car with other parishioners, especially if they rely on a lift to get there!

PLANT SWAP

A parish plant swap or sale is a great way to encourage people to grow their own food at home.

It enables members of the community to make the best use of their skills and space to grow their favorites and share with others. Knowing that Mrs Goggins has succeeded in creating hardy tomatoes, while you have got the beans off to a roaring start means you can both look forward to a varied harvest! A plant sale can also be a great way of raising funds for other projects.

VEGETABLE GARDEN

Could you turn a piece of parish grounds into an allotment?

This is a great way for the parish to get their hands dirty and marvel at the wonders of giant vegetables growing from tiny seeds. Even if you do not have much room, a couple of meters of raised bed can produce quite a bit of food.

SIGN UP TO A NEWSLETTER

Sometimes the simplest way to keep informed of world issues is to sign up to a newsletter of an organisation involved in advocacy.

You could make sure there is a print copy of a charity bulletin on the church notice board.

PRAYER

It is important to remember to pray for world events.

Make sure you include prayers for those whose lives are destroyed as a result of our plundering the natural world, those who do not get their fair share and those suffering other injustices such as violence or persecution. Pray also for your own strength in building the kingdom of God.

NEWSLETTER

The Parish newsletter is a great way of informing people of current events, drawing attention to urgent appeals and communicating…

…what actions are going on in your parish and locally. Reading the newsletter as we wait for mass to start can put us in the right frame of mind if the content is reflective or thought provoking. How is my salvation tied with that of the world and my neighbours? Make sure you include any web links so people can follow up in their own time. Make sure the key events are read out from the pulpit.

FRATELLI TUTTI READING GROUP

Laudato Si’s sister encyclical on fraternity and friendship,and explores our need for love in politics.

Papal Encyclicals are not always an easy read, neither do we always get the most wisdom from them if we read them solely with our own outlook on life, or our own limited knowledge of world events. A parish reading group helps explore the teachings whilst sharing people’s experience and knowledge and can help unpick some tricky gems of wisdom. It is also great for bonding a group of concerned parishioners.

INVITE A GUEST SPEAKER (advocacy)

Well Greta Thunberg might be a stretch for your parish but there are many organisations who would be happy to come and talk…

…about their work and provide advocacy training on topics of environmental and social justice.

MEET YOUR MP

It’s an MP’s job to respond to the concerns of their communities, but you need to communicate with them to let them know…

…what you care about! Try and build a relationship with your MP, invite them to see the amazing things your parish is doing and inspire them to engage with ecological issues at a national level.

CREATE A COMMUNITY QUIET GARDEN

Could your Parish grounds provide a quiet space to the local community?

Could your Parish grounds provide a quiet space to the local community, or a dedicated area for prayer and reflection? ‘Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest’ (St Mark’s Gospel 6.31). If Jesus regularly and consistently needed such space to just ‘be’, then so do we.

Parish Film Night

Documentaries can help build an appreciation of the natural world…

Why not host a parish film night? Documentaries can help build an appreciation of the natural world, whilst watching them together helps build community and allows for some exciting discussion. Try a BBC nature documentary or the Global Healing film series commissioned by The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.

ALL ACTIONS

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Host a repair café for the wider community

Investigate your community’s ethical consumption

Become a Fairtrade community

GIVE SOMEONE A LIFT

PLANT SWAP

VEGETABLE GARDEN

SIGN UP TO A NEWSLETTER

PRAYER

NEWSLETTER

FRATELLI TUTTI READING GROUP

INVITE A GUEST SPEAKER (advocacy)

MEET YOUR MP

CREATE A COMMUNITY QUIET GARDEN

Parish Film Night

Could you help support The Journey to 2030?

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