Laudato Si Action Platform
LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC COLLEGE
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, the Thau and Diringanj people of the Yuin Nation.
We pay our respects to elders past and present for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Indigenous Australia.
We recognize that sovereignty was never ceded and celebrate Indigenous heritage in our four houses, Baringa the light, Monaroo the people, Bobberrer the mountains and Gudu the waters.
Lumen Christi Catholic College has been inspired by Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical letter, "Laudato Si: Care of our Common Home". We're particularly inspired by paragraph 210 of the encyclical and aligned these goals to our Houses and Patron Saints with an emphasis on promoting joy, justice, prayer and hope in the good news.
In 2021 we joined the Laudato Si Action Platform which outlines 7 goals, around which to reflect on our current experience and plan for future progress. This website is designed to record our journey over the next few years implementing initiatives and strategies to promote care for our common home.
LAUDATO SI #210 Environmental education has broadened its goals.
Whereas in the beginning it was mainly centered on scientific information, consciousness-raising and the prevention of environmental risks, it tends now to include a critique of the “myths” of a modernity grounded in a utilitarian mindset (individualism, unlimited progress, competition, consumerism, the unregulated market).
It seeks also to restore the various levels of ecological equilibrium, establishing harmony within ourselves, with others, with nature and other living creatures, and with God.
Environmental education should facilitate making the leap towards the transcendent which gives ecological ethics its deepest meaning.
It needs educators capable of developing an ethics of ecology, and helping people, through effective pedagogy, to grow in solidarity, responsibility and compassionate care.