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Laudato Si’ Week 2020: Everything is Connected

(May 16 – 24, 2020)

We are celebrating this year the 5th anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical letter Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home addressed to all people of goodwill. The encyclical has since been an influential document not just for the religious world but also for the secular world; inspiring different groups, movements, NGO’s, CSO’s and PO’s globally.

The current COVID-19 pandemic that cost the lives of many around the world, is challenging us how to creatively celebrate Laudato Si Week in and through our present reality. Considering this, GCCM-Pilipinas would like to propose an online celebration of Laudato Si Week 2020. The celebration will focus on Laudato Si’, COVID-19 pandemic and the year of Ecumenism, Interreligious Dialogue and Indigenous Peoples. The goals of the Online Laudato Si Week Celebration are the following:

  1. To honor the five-year efforts to bring Laudato Si to life.
  2. To nurture our hope for global solidarity.
  3. To encourage and support initiatives to address the climate emergency.
  4. To affirm the Laudato Si dimension of the Year of Ecumenism, Interreligious Dialogue and Indigenous Peoples

Proposed Online Activities During the Laudato Si Week

May 16 – Online Launch of Laudato Si’ Week 2020 Celebration at 4:30 – 6:00pm
May 19 – Online Reflection w/ Fr. Sean McDonagh,  SSC, via zoom at 4:00 – 5:30pm
     Theme: Fifth Year of Laudato Si: Achievements and Challenges
May 20 – Online Conversation: Invest for the Future, via zoom 3:00 – 5:00pm
    (This forum is exclusive to representatives from religious congregations/institutions)
May 22 – Online Reflection w/ Prof. John Feehan , Geologist and Botanist,                              via zoom at 4:00 – 5:30pm
                Theme: Laudato Si and Biodiversity in relation to COVID-19
May 23 – Online Interreligious Prayer, via zoom at 4:00 – 5:00pm
May 24 – Online Celebration of the Holy Eucharist at 10:00 – 11:00am
                 – Main Presider: Bp. Broderick Pabillo, DD
                Online Global Prayer at 11:30am – 12:30pm

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Instructions for Joining the Online Events of Laudato Si’ Week 2020

How to join the online events:

1.         Pre-register. You will then receive the zoom link for the event
2.         Download the Zoom application for your computers or smartphones by   going to https://zoom.us/download
3.         Click the link you received after the pre-registration

We advise you to join the event through the link at least 15 minutes before the schedule as there may be a few seconds of delay between clicking on the link and joining the room.

Rules:

1.         Upon entering the webinar, please mute Audio and disable Video. Participants will not be authorized to use Audio and Video features, except when asking a question during the allotted time.
2.         Please do not use the chat feature to avoid distracting our presenters. I would also like to remind everyone that the record feature of Zoom also records the chat.
3.         Participants who show inappropriate and offensive behavior will be removed from the webinar. 

Participating in the Q&A

1.         Raise Hand: The Raise Hand feature is located at the bottom right of the Chat. Raise your hand in order to indicate that you want to speak or ask a question out loud during the allotted time. The facilitator will take note of all participants who want to ask a question and will call upon them once the open forum commences. Do not spam the Raise Hand feature, the facilitator will take down your Hand once he is notified of your intent.
2.         If participants do not want to ask the question themselves, they can message the facilitator directly and share their question. The facilitator will be the one to ask the question.
3.         Please direct your question to a specified speaker. Please keep your questions concise and direct to the point.

Zoom platform can only accommodate a certain number of registered participants. Alternatively, you can view the Facebook livestream of the event and you’ll be able to ask questions via the comments section. Our staff will be taking note of the questions and communicate them to the Facilitator. 

All online events will be livestream on this link (https://www.facebook.com/gccm.pilipinas/) All participants to online events for Laudato Si Week 2020 except the Launching on May 16 will need to pre-register.

We apologize in advance for the inconvenience that you may incur. We are working on the best way to accommodate all participants.

Laiko holds 2nd Post-Quarantine Conversations

May 10, 2010

Sangguniang Laiko ng Pilipinas gathered one hundred participants to take part in a post-quarantine conversation via Zoom(R) online meeting on the topic “Mental Health in the Time pf CVOVID-19” on May 9, 2020 from 2 to 4 PM. The guest resource person is Dr. Joff Quiring, a Diplomate of the Specialty Board of the Philippine Psychiatry and a member of the Philippine Psychiatric Association.

Easter Message from the CBCP Commission on the Biblical Apostolate


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EASTER 2020

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but may have eternal life.” (John 3:16)

A Joyful and a Blessed EASTER to you all!

At the outbreak of the Corona virus on the early part of this year 2020, it took some time before the WHO has declared the Covid19 a pandemic directing the leaders of all nations to take the necessary action to implement the guidelines on the imposition of an enhanced community quarantine or a lockdown, and the strict compliance of social distancing. This declaration caught us all by surprise as we were compelled to be in a complete lockdown requiring all residents to be confined at home till the end of this month.

Unquestionably, there is nothing that we can do with the imposition of a total lockdown. The appeal from the Law Enforcers and Frontliners was for all of us to stay home. Therefore, to be confined at home is the best response and help that we can offer to the same plea that is reiterated by the doctors, nurses, medical assistants and frontliners. And finding ourselves in this imposed situation we can all have the time to ponder on the things that truly matter in life.

There is not one of us who can remain to be indifferent to the trouble that this pandemic has brought to us. The Covid19, an invisible enemy, has brought havoc to all of us without any exception. The widespread suffering caused by the pandemic has cost so many lives and left some of our people in utter despair.

Thanks be to God for all the courageous frontliners (doctors, nurses, medical assistants, law enforcers, national and local Task Forces and the many volunteers) who in their selfless service have risked even their lives to care for the many victims of Covid19. Hearing the news and stories of their struggles move us to acknowledge that in these desperate and trying times their stories echo the very same story of the passion of Christ that has accomplished for us the Father’s gift of salvation.

Among the various experiences brought about by the pandemic that has required an enhanced community quarantine are challenging situations where individuals, families, and communities have been put in precarious circumstances. We hear of a huge number of workers who are daily wage earners and now unable to feed their family or support their daily needs; we also hear of neighbors or even subdivision homeowners who discriminate others who are classified as Persons Under Investigation (PUI), Persons Under Monitoring (PUM) or worse still those who have been diagnosed as Covid19 positive. Neither can we also ignore the heartaches and grief of family members who are unable to attend the funeral of a loved one. These very grim picture of the situation simply leaves us at a loss.

Even in the midst of the Covid19 pandemic, with all the havoc and devastation it has brought to the world, the season of LENT has, indeed, provided us the precious time to prepare for the glorious feast of EASTER. With great exultation we celebrate today the Feast of the Resurrection of Christ Jesus and we cannot help but acknowedge with grateful heart the overflowing grace that accompanies this joyous occasion. Is it not simply AMAZING that the feast that we commemorate year after year is the same marvelous celebration that contains the good news that is ever new – Christ is Risen! This feast of EASTER bursts forth with joy and exultation as it renews us to be able to radiate the gospel in season and out of season.

And in today’s feast of Christ’s Resurrection, we are, once again, reminded with JOY and GRATITUDE of our being
* CALLED,
* CHOSEN and
* SENT into this broken world in order to radiate to everyone HOPE and CONSOLATION that flows from Christ’s Passion, Death and RESURRECTION.

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