Laudato Si' 

Wednesday April 23 from 12 PM to 5 PM on campus at Santa Clara University near the Mission Santa Clara, under the giant tree by Walsh Administration, on the Kenna Lawn

BE A READER

We will read the 87-page 2015 Papal Encyclical,

Laudato Si'—On Care for our Common Home—

Laudato Si' serves as a foundational document for

tUrn Climate Crisis Awareness & Action

and for many SCU initiatives. 

Reading it outdoors 

is central to 

feeling it.

This work challenges us to renew our commitment

and restore balance in all of our relationships to each other,

to all living things, and to the future.

 

Why 5 hours?

According to almost the entire scientific community,

to drawdown global warming such that we do not enter an inescapable,

accelerated warming loop, or pass other tipping points that would devastate

life as we know it, we need to act urgently before 2030.

We, who are living in this unprecedented window of time

can either become informed and move into generous,

unprecedented, just, grounded action,

or we can be passive at a time

when every move we make

matters.

Come hear 15 different readers' voices

bringing words into being.

Would you like to join us and listen?

Or offer your voice during a 20-minute reading slot?

BE A READER

Here is the text:

Laudato Si' 

Thank you for being a part of this as a listener or reader or both!

We hope you can gaze at 

a tree while hearing

Laudato Si'