August 19, 2019
MOST. REV. BRODERICK S. PABILLO, DD
Sangguniang Laiko ng Pilipinas
Dear Your Excellency,
Greetings of Christ’s love and peace flowing from and through out Creation!
As discussed in our previous meetings, we agreed to intensify our efforts for this year’s Season of Creation. Moreover, we agreed to connect our celebration with pressing ecological issues disrupting and desecrating the web of life to which all life forms, including us humans, depend on. And by adopting the global theme ‘The Web of Life’, we came up with a program “Caring for Our Web of Life” which will be our concrete and sustainable actions to care and protect the web of life that we can do with in the period of September 1, 2019-September 1, 2020. This will be launched during our “Walk for Creation” celebration by a creative and symbolic ritual and participated by organizations with a commitment.
One concrete initiative that we have taken up for this program is the Own-a-Tree and Help Care for Mother Earth of the Oikos Society of Couples for Christ. Please take time to read the attached Guidelines in PDF format. Likewise, attached here is the “Caring for Our Web of Life” Commitment form. For more details, please contact Bro. Rico Alconcel of CFC Oikos Society. His contact details are indicated in the attached document. Kindly respond to this email with your commitment by filling up the Commitment Form. We hope to receive your response on or before August 31.
Your organization’s commitment will be celebrated and set as an example to draw and inspire others for concrete actions. We are encouraging all to take part in this collective endeavor to care for our web of life.
I have appended below some materials from CFC Oikos Society.
In gratitude of your kind attention, I would like to end with paragraph 89 of Laudato Si.
This is the basis of our conviction that, as part of the universe, called into being by one Father, all of us are linked by unseen bonds and together form a kind of universal family, a sublime communion which fills us with a ascred, affectionate and humble respect. Here I would reiterate that “God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of species as a painful disfigurement.
One with you in caring for our Web of Life,
John Din
National Coordinator
Global Catholic Climate Movement – Pilipinas
