Care for Creation

As Catholics, we are called to show our respect for God by being good stewards of God’s creation. Caring for the earth is a requirement of our faith.

Opportunities for caring for creation are as abundant and various as God’s creations themselves. Whether you are looking for a large or small, local or global, long-term or short-term project, you can find a stewardship project to suit your group or family.

Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” Genesis 1:26

• As a class group, clean up the parish or school grounds.

• Make arrangements to plant flowers on the parish grounds or in the community.

• Make paper May baskets for elderly parishioners or homebound parishioners. Distribute them through the volunteers that visit these people.

• Organize a recycling program in your parish. Provide containers and a system for picking up the recyclables.