{"id":4390,"date":"2023-12-19T12:16:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T18:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/?page_id=4390"},"modified":"2024-02-14T13:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:16:44","slug":"laudate-deum-2024-reflection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/ministries\/care-of-creation\/laudate-deum-2024-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Laudate Deum 2024 Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Laudate-Deum-Flyer-scaled-e1703019790808.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4402 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Laudate-Deum-Flyer-scaled-e1703019790808.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Laudate Deum Reflective Reading and Discussion January\/February 2024<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The Conference Care of Creation Dream Group offered an opportunity for Presentation people to read, reflect, discuss and discern around Pope Francis&#8217; Laudate Deum document. This six-week reflective experience was held in January and February of 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You can view videos from each week below.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are resources that will be used for this opportunity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Francis&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Pope-Francis-Laudate-Deum.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laudate Deum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Praise-God_-Group-Reading-Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Praise God &#8211; Group Reading Guide (PDF)<\/a><br \/>\nWe used Bill Huebsch&#8217;s group reading guide for our process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 3 &#8211; Laudate Deum Session One: The Global Climate Crisis\u00a0<\/strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laudate Deum Session One\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/912394295?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>January 10 &#8211; Laudate Deum Session Two: A Growing Technocratic Paradigm &#8211; Human Causes, Damages and Risks \u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laudate Deum Session Two\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/912998400?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>January 17 &#8211; Laudate Deum Session Three: The Weakness of International Politics<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: #d5d5d5;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laudate Deum Session Three\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/912646827?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>January 24 &#8211; Laudate Deum Session Four: The Climate Conferences &#8211; Reconfiguring Multilateralism \u00a0<\/strong> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laudate Deum Session Four\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/913016302?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>January 31 &#8211; Laudate Deum Session Five: What to Expect from COP28 in Dubai?\u00a0<\/strong> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laudate Deum Session Five\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/912666616?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>February 7 &#8211; Laudate Deum Session Six: Spiritual Motivations, In the Light of Faith<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: #d5d5d5;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laudate Deum Session Six\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/912622411?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em><u>\u201cLaudate Deum\u201d<\/u><\/em><u> comes from a long line of creation care in the Catholic Church<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Pope Francis\u2019 apostolic exhortation <em>\u201cLaudate Deum\u201d<\/em> was published on October 4, 2023, it is hardly the first time a pope has spoken about caring for creation as being integral to our Christian calling. In 2015, Pope Francis issued the prophetic and most widely read encyclical <em>\u201cLaudato Si.\u201d<\/em> This writing was addressed to every person on the planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before Pope Francis, Pope Benedict was known as the Green Pope for his many statements regarding creation care and for putting solar panels on the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On January 1, 1990, Pope John Paul II gave his <a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/messages\/peace\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_mes_19891208_xxiii-world-day-for-peace.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Day of Peace message<\/a> in which he declared that \u201cthe ecological crisis is a moral issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Centuries ago, mystics like Hildegard of Bingen wrote about the goodness and holiness of creation. Some 800 years ago St. Francis of Assisi wrote the \u201cCanticle of the Sun\u201d and is beloved for his humility, and his care of creation and of those made poor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laudate Deum Reflective Reading and Discussion January\/February 2024 The Conference Care of Creation Dream Group offered an opportunity for Presentation people to read, reflect, discuss and discern around Pope Francis&#8217;<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/ministries\/care-of-creation\/laudate-deum-2024-reflection\/\" title=\"ReadLaudate Deum 2024 Reflection\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":4124,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4479,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4390\/revisions\/4479"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbvmconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}