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To Hope and Act with Creation: Season of Creation 2024
Stirling conference
Justice and Peace Scotland and SCIAF will host a Season of Creation conference on 7th September in St Margaret’s, Raploch, Stirling. Join them for a day of discussion on how faith communities can take action for our common home.
Dr Ben Wilson, SCIAF’s Director of Public Engagement and member of the Holy See delegation at COP 28 will address the conference.
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Online Event
Fr Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam will speak at an online event to mark the Season of Creation on 19 September, beginning at 7pm.
Fr Kureethadam is Chair of Philosophy of Science and Director of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome. He was the Coordinator of the Sector of ‘Ecology’ at the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development from 2017-2023, where he continues to serve as a consultant.
His passion is to pass on to younger generations not only a sense of awe and wonder before the grandeur and majesty of the universe, but also a deep sense of concern for the increasingly precarious state of our common planetary home. He has been particularly associated with the study and diffusion of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter on Care for Our Common Home.
His publications include Creation in Crisis: Science, Ethics and Theology (Orbis Books, 2014), The Philosophical Roots of the Ecological Crisis(Cambridge Scholars, 2017), The Ten Green Commandments of Laudato Si’ (Liturgical Press, 2019); Laudato Si’ Reader (ed.) (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2021), Per Una Conversione Ecologica (Castelvecchi, 2023).]
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Book launch: Song of the Poor
Tommy Greenan was a young Scottish priest who chose to live and work among the poorest of the poor in civil war-torn El Salvador in the 1980s and early 1990s, shortly after the assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero, whose ministry to the victims of state repression had greatly inspired him.
Tommy shared the poverty, fears and grief of the communities in which he lived. Death was an everyday reality, and priests who sided with the poor were considered subversives, enemies of the regime. Amid the danger and his pastoral duties, he wrote hundreds of reflections, stories and meditations that gave true witness to the daily life of his friends and neighbours. Together they represent a passionate voice for the voiceless, a memorial to short lives that would otherwise have been unknown and unseen.
Following Tommy’s death, The Song of the Poor collects an exceptional selection of his writings from El Salvador, presented in beautiful, often shattering, short chapters. They are intense and moving, yet often humorous, ranging from colourful human encounters to profound meditations on personal, political and religious matters. They provide an unforgettable chronicle of the life of the poor and of a remarkable individual in a time of conflict and terror.
The Song of the Poor by Tommy Greenan will be published on Monday 30 September.
Prof Pat Reilly Lecture - John Henry Newman and Eucharistic Aesthetics
Come join us for an insightful lecture by Dr. Rebekah Lamb on the fascinating topic of John Henry Newman and Eucharistic Aesthetics. Discover the profound connection between Newman’s teachings and the beauty of the Eucharist. This in-person event will be held at the University of Glasgow Catholic Chaplaincy. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to delve into the rich spiritual heritage of Newman and explore the aesthetics of the Eucharist!