A Year of Living Sustainably
November 2024

November 2024: Prayer

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IN THIS MONTH

November: Last month, we reflected on what living simply means in our lives. This month, the tenth in our year of living sustainably, as we head into winter, we make space for prayer in every aspect of our lives - head, hands and heart. In particular we pray for the parties at COP29, that the Holy Spirit might guide their aims and actions.

    1. Read Laudato Si' again. After journeying for 10 months, what speaks to your heart now.

    2. Read: Finding God in a Leaf by Brian Grogan SJ. A month of reflections on Laudato Si'. Rather than an exhaustive explanation of the encyclical, this book serves as a daily invitation to notice in ordinary creation the invitation of God to love and care for all God's creation. Read slowly each morning, it could give a focus for living the day in recognising God in all things, and the call of God to be a co-creator of his beautiful world each day.

    1. Commit to seeing the sunrise at least once a week this month, take the time for prayer and thanksgiving.

    2. Find the time to read about COP29, what the parties aim for and what the possibilities could be if hearts were inspired by the Spirit.

    1. As COP29 gets underway this month, pray for the intercession of St Francis of Assisi that the conference of the parties will yield the fruit of a sustainable future for our world.

    2. Pray for the intercession of St Augustine, so that you may see nature as God sees it, feeling deeply both its beauty and its impermanence, loving nature without clinging to it.