Laudato Si’ Week 2021 is here!
Here is everything you need to know about the crowning event of the Special Laudato Si’ Anniversary Year: how you can participate in the global events, and how you can create change on the local level and help bring Laudato Si’ to life.
All of the global events will be broadcast on GCCM’s YouTube channel. In addition, every day GCCM will broadcast a live show at 13:00 CET to highlight how Laudato Si’ is inspiring Catholics around the world.
Locally, be sure to join an event near you, either in-person or online, to truly bring the celebration to your community.
For the latest, follow GCCM social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, and tell the world what you’re doing by using #LaudatoSiWeek #LaudatoSi6.
Listen to the GCCM Podcast: Previewing Laudato Si’ Week 2021
Laudato Si’ Week 2021 Schedule, 16-25 May
| Monday 17 May | Laudato Si’ Dialogue: Critical opportunities in 2021 to create change, call for an integral path |
| Tuesday 18 May | Laudato Si’ Dialogue on Education |
| Wednesday 19 May | Laudato Si’ Dialogue on Energy and Fossil Fuels: Global Catholic Divestment Drumbeat |
| Thursday 20 May | Sowing Hope for the Planet / Creation Care Prayer Network |
| Friday 21 May | Global Action Day for Our Common Home |
| Saturday 22 May | Laudato Si’ Festival “Songs for Creation” |
| Sunday 23 May | Pentecost Day: Laudato Si’ Special Anniversary Year Closing Praying Gathering / Missionary Sending |
| Monday 24 May | Roundtable about WASH in Catholic health care facilities |
| Tuesday 25 May | Laudato Si’ Week closing event, Laudato Si’ Action Platform launch |
Monday 17 May
Laudato Si’ Dialogue: Critical opportunities in 2021 to create change, call for an integral path
12:00 Quito / 13:00 New York / 14:00 Brasilia / 14:00 Buenos Aires / 19:00 Rome
Learn how you and your community can bring Laudato Si’ to life and create change ahead of COP15 and COP26.
Featured speakers
Christine Allen,
CAFOD Director
Fr. Augusto Zampini,
Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
José Gregorio Díaz Mirabal,
COICA (Amazonia)
José Gregorio Díaz Mirabal,
COICA (Amazonia)
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Tuesday 18 May
Laudato Si’ Dialogue on Education
7:00 Quito / 8:00 New York / 9:00 Brasilia / 9:00 Buenos Aires / 14:00 Rome / 20:00 Sydney
We’ll highlight universities and institutions around the world that have made Laudato Si’ an integral part of their curricula and that are using Pope Francis’ encyclical to educate the whole person.
Leaders from renowned institutions across the globe will share practical experiences about how they use Laudato Si’ to inspire students, and they’ll offer tips to other institutional leaders seeking to do the same in their part of the world.
Moderator
(Columban Missionaries)
Featured speakers
LISTEN (Australia)
Laudato Si’ Research Institute
University of Notre Dame (US)
University Network for the Care of the Common Home (Argentina)
Universidad Francisco de Vitoria Madrid (Spain)
RENOVA+ (Argentina)
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Wednesday 19 May
Laudato Si’ Dialogue on Energy and Fossil Fuels: Global Catholic Divestment Drumbeat
8:00 Quito / 9:00 New York / 10:00 Brasilia / 10:00 Buenos Aires / 15:00 Rome / 21:00 Sydney
Learn about the role of energy and fossil fuels in the crisis of our common home and how institutions across the globe are doing their part to create a more resilient future by following historic Vatican environmental guidelines and divesting from fossil fuels.
Moderator
GCCM
Featured speakers
President of COMECE
Author and Co-Founder of 350.org
Denis Hurley Peace Institute/SACBC
Executive Director at Global Health and Climate Alliance
Diocesan Environmental Officer (Diocese of Bristol, England)
(Limerick, Ireland)
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Thursday 20 May
Sowing Hope for the Planet / Creation Care Prayer Network
8:00 Quito / 9:00 New York / 10:00 Brasilia / 10:00 Buenos Aires / 15:00 Rome / 21:00 Sydney
Eco-spirituality brings hope to a troubled world. Join us to share in the fruitfulness of the work of Sowing Hope for the Planet. We will journey with men and women religious engaged in promoting Laudato Si’, and we will celebrate stories of ecological conversion, both personal and communal.
Moderator
FCJM
MCCJ
Featured speakers
SND (India)
Sr Leetta Hammack,
SSND (Paraguay)
OSF (USA)
MSC (Philippines)
GCCM (USA)
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Friday 21 May
Global Action Day for Our Common Home
A global call for individuals, communities, and institutions worldwide are invited to organise a concrete action to care for our common home.
Saturday 22 May
Laudato Si’ Festival “Songs for Creation”
12:00 Quito / 13:00 New York / 14:00 Brasilia / 14:00 Buenos Aires / 19:00 Rome
The cultural festival “Songs for Creation” will present biodiversity lost in the world and its consequences, focusing on the biodiversity problems in the artists’ and musicians’ regions.
Given the complexity of the ecological crisis and its multiple causes, we need to realize that the solutions will not emerge from just one way of interpreting and transforming reality. Respect must also be shown for the various cultural riches of different peoples, their art and poetry and their interior life and spirituality (LS 63).
During the event, the Vatican’s message for World Biodiversity Day will be spotlighted, the winners of the photo contest Laudato Si’ Moment will be announced, and winners of the Laudato Si’ Story Contest will be presented.
Featured speakers
Secretary at the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
GCCM
Luca Terrana (Italy)
(Spain – Italy)
(International)
“Last of My Kind” film producer
CELAM and CEAMA (Amazon)
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Sunday 23 May
Pentecost Day. Laudato Si’ Special Anniversary Year Closing Praying Gathering / Missionary Sending
8:00 Quito / 9:00 New York / 10:00 Brasilia / 10:00 Buenos Aires / 15:00 Rome / 21:00 Sydney
The global Catholic family will make a missionary-like sending of local Laudato Si’ Animators and other faithful so that they may go and announce “the Gospel of Creation” in every corner of the globe.
Featured speakers
Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino
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Monday 24 May
Roundtable about WASH in Catholic health care facilities
5:30 New York / 6:30 Brasilia / 6:30 Buenos Aires / 11:30 Rome / 17:30 Sydney
Following the publication of the document Aqua fons vitae, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development is pleased to provide an update on its WASH project (access to drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) in a selected number of health care facilities belonging to the Catholic Church.
Featured speakers
Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Bishop of Moroto in Uganda
a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul
Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII
GlobalWater 2020
Waterlines & GlobalWater 2020
Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
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Tuesday 25 May
Laudato Si’ Week closing event and Laudato Si’ Action Platform launch
Catholics across the globe will unite one final time during Laudato Si’ Week to learn about the Laudato Si’ Action Platform, a Vatican-led effort to empower Catholic institutions, communities, and families to implement Laudato Si’ in the decade ahead.
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