Ways of improving the Environment

Topic: Waste sorting and management

Objective: Sorting is a gesture of love and respect for creation.

Suggestions for attitude and actions:

"The simplicity of the mystery of the incarnation and the responsibility in the face of the question of protecting our common home".

 Symbolic gesture (waste sorting)

Centrally placed visual material for garbage sorting

Meditation text:

'When they had eaten their fill, he said to his disciples, 'Gather up the pieces that are left, so that nothing may be lost.' (John 6,12)

Song: Chorus: Blessed are you Lord for love, you created us (or any other).

Meditation: How can we in our communities imitate this gesture of Christ who refuses to waste?

Sorting is the first step to ensuring that "nothing is lost" and that everything is transformed.

Course of the payer: Introduction

Let us remember that "everything is connected". To throw away waste without care is to hurt the land

that the child Jesus came to inhabit.

v  Thanksgiving for the material:

Present the different containers or bins (plastic, organic paper), non-recyclable (light bulb)

v  Prayer on the bins:

Lord, bless our hands that sort.

May every gesture of sorting in our kitchens and gardens be a silent prayer for the care of our common home.

v  Intercession and commitment:

1-    For the cleanliness of our living spaces

Lord, may our communities be models of responsible management for our neighbours and the people we serve.

2-    For people who collect garbage

Lord, we pray for those who work to clean up our cities, following the example of Saint Joseph, a humble and courageous man, grant us to respect their dignity and their health to facilitate their task by rigorously sorting our garbage in our homes.

3-    For the spirit of poverty

Lord, St. Joseph lived in sobriety and manual labor; helps our communities to flee the "throwaway culture." Teach us to be content with the necessities at our disposal and to take care of the objects around us with the same attention that Saint Joseph paid to his tools.

4-    For the wise management of our resources

Lord, you have entrusted to Saint Joseph the custody of your greatest treasure. Inspire the bursars and leaders of our communities to manage our property wisely and ecologically. May we know how to sort, recycle and share so as not to waste the gifts of providence.

5-    For transmission to future generations

Lord, as Saint Joseph prepared the way for the Child Jesus, help us to leave a clean and fertile soil for the young people in our care.

May our ecological conversion be an act of love for the generations of tomorrow, let us pray to the Lord.