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Prayers

Ensuring that the JPIC agenda, values and perspectives are included in prayer and reflection is important. The JPIC committee develops, sources and shares appropriate prayers, readings and reflections as resources for individuals, schools and other groups, ensuring the opportunity to link the JPIC values with personal and spiritual growth.


Finding God in all things, including all created life, underpins the spirituality of a Loreto Sister. Finding time to stop and reflect is a way to take time out.

Eco-Examen

The following "Eco-Examen" was developed by the JPIC Committee:

Review

Loving God help me honestly review how I live in this world; how I use the gifts of creation and how I contribute to the care and protection of the planet.
Today did I:

  • Turn off the lights when not needed

  • Turn down/off the heating or cooling

  • Turn off electrical appliances at the power point

  • Wait until I had a full load before using the washing machine

  • Take a shorter shower

  • Saved the shower water for the garden

  • Use public transport rather than the car

  • Make the effort to place cans, bottles and plastics in the recycling bin

  • Talk with a community member/ friend/relative about the importance of caring for the planet?

Regret


Looking over the day I become aware of the opportunities lost, of ways I could have done more to care for and protect the planet.
I pray for:

  • Sorrow at opportunities lost

  • Those in leadership who resist change

  • Gratitude for the love and forgiveness of God. 

Hope

I look forward to the future.

  • Give me loving God a renewed vision of the possibilities for our world.

  • Lead me to do more for the earth, the planet, the cosmos.

Thanksgiving

I pray to be:

  • Grateful for the cosmos and for our planet

  • Aware of the wonders of the natural world, the intricacies of the ecosystem

  • More conscious of my place in this complex web of life

  • Alive to God at work in all creation

Asking

Creator God help me to see and understand what great gifts of creation have been given us to cherish and nurture.

  • For the beauty of this world give me a grateful heart

  • Give me insight into the ways I use the gifts of this world

  • Give me the grace to use the gifts of this world with moderation and care 

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The Eco-Examen is available as a printed bookmark from the Loreto Centre.
To order please call the Loreto Centre on 03 9813 4023.

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