7 Days of Creation Reflection-Retreat

7 Days of Creation Reflection-Retreat

7 Days of Creation Reflection-Retreat offers a prayerful way for believers preparing to celebrate 1st September as World Day of Prayer for Creation, proclaimed jointly by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis on 1 September 2017. This seven-day reflection...
World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

Columban missionary Fr Barry Cairns notes that 1st September 2020 has been designated ’World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation’ and highlights the particular challenges he faces in getting close to nature where he lives in Japan. Pope Francis asks us to, “Let our...
Columban Schools Journalism 2020 Winning Article

Columban Schools Journalism 2020 Winning Article

Tacking Our ‘Throwaway Culture’ This is the winning article in the 2020 Columban Schools Journalism Competition in Ireland. It is by 16-year-old Trinity McKeever, a student of Thornhill College, Derry.  There has been such a focus on the waste from...
Our Common Home

Our Common Home

Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ is five years old this month and captures the social, economic and environmental justice in building and protecting Our Common Home. It details a pathway of hope as we face the plant’s environmental crisis. Watch as...
Columban message for Laudato Si’ Week

Columban message for Laudato Si’ Week

      Missionary Society of St Columban 2020 Laudato Si’ Week Message Because all creatures are connected, each must be cherished with love and respect, for all of us as living creatures are dependent on one another. LS 42 24 May 2020 marks the 5th...