Reflections in NIP communities on Laudato Si connecting to SDGs and our Ministry
DATE :9th August 2022
CREATE A SACRED SPACE CREATIVELY with a lamp and a globe in the middle surrounded by pictures of people trying to sell their home grown products in markets, small scale skills based business like tailoring, etc NGOs taking coaching classes for poor children and so .
1. Opening chant/Bhajan /hymn/quiet soothing music to set space for the reflection into action..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gaFm-MpxBw Creation Song..Singing glory
2. Share and say “How am I feeling right now?” my inner space of my being. Feel free and at ease to share honestly your space within.
Introduction on 9th Key Theme and Approach of 2030 agenda through the Lens of Laudato Si: Support Economic growth, business and Decent work.
Introduction
Laudato Si’ affirms the important role of all types of business in a diverse and creative economy. They should be directed towards authentic development that improves the quality of human life, protects the environment and supports a dignified life through work.
Authentic development includes efforts to bring about an integral improvement in the quality of human life” (LS 147).
“Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving our world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the areas in which it operates, especially of it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good” (LS 129).
A goal of business and economic activity should be steady employment for everyone (CV 32) and a dignified life through work (LS 128). To provide employment we need a diverse and creative economy (LS 129) that includes a focus on supporting small producers and “small-scale food production systems which feed the greater part of the world’s peoples” (LS 129).
Engaging in the 2030 Agenda through the lens of Laudato Si’ lets see how SDGs are connected with Laudato Si
SDG s: Support Economic growth, business and Decent work.
Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
8.1 Sustain per capita economic growth
8.2 Achieve higher levels of economic productivity
8.4 Endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation
8.5 Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men
8.8 Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers
2.3 Double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers
10.1 Progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average
12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle.
Challenges
What could be challenges for us in our personal, community life and our Ministry ?
Laudato Si’ challenges the idea that we can have both sustained and sustainable growth and calls us to rethink the meaning of progress, the purpose of the economy and the wider role of business. There is no option of business as usual.
For our reflections.
· Business is accountable to society: “those responsible for business enterprises are responsible to society for the economic and ecological effects of their operations. They have an obligation to consider the good of persons and not only the increase of profits.
· Need a deeper reflection on the meaning of the economy and its goals (CV 32). “Put simply, it is a matter of redefining our notion of progress
· Present limitations and failures in the economy need to be addressed head-on, including the concentration of power in certain groups and individuals that work against the common good (LS 54) and models of growth which have proved incapable of ensuring respect for the environment (LS 6).
· Work is a vocation (LS 128), part of an ongoing creative process in which we are involved (LS 71, 124). It is part of our relationship with other human beings and with our common home (LS 125). “Work is a necessity, part of the meaning of life on this earth, a path to growth, human development and personal fulfilment” (LS 128).
· Rest needs to be built into our work, to heal our relationships with God, ourselves, others and the world (LS 237). This recognizes the interdependence of everything and the limits to the earth’s rhythms, which cannot be subject to dominion or control.
How can you do the above in your life?
1. What is the challenge that is put before each one of us as individual sisters when LS.128 talks about work is vocation and it is part of our relationship with other human beings and our common home.
2. In our ministries with people who work with us and are with us, what is our attitude towards rest , that which can bring healing to us and wherever we are, how thoughtful and considerate we are with others working under us.
3. In these times of Covid 19 and the aftermath effects, how and what is progress to us in terms of economy, as we cater to the poor in our institutions and social work centres.
How can you do the above in your life?
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Give each one the space and time to share and affirming each one with a positive regard.
The leader conducting the prayer closes the prayer with a closing prayer /Hymn /Ritual to the 9thth key theme of Laudato Si and SDGs connected to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0EgoJAh0xg we are connected by Chris skinner