CARE FOR CREATION STUDY GROUP: Are you concerned about the environment? Would you like to learn more about our mission as Catholics to care for it? A worldwide movement, inspired by God’s gift of creation, is awakening everywhere to the urgency of caring for our common home. You are invited to join St. Teresa of Kolkata parish’s Care for Creation Study Group that will launch its first meeting at the St. Pius RCIA meeting room on Thursday evening, September 22, 2022, at 7 until 8:30 pm, and hopefully every month thereafter, to study Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si. Our parish website, https://stteresakolkatapgh.org contains the entire encyclical and many ideas for living an eco-friendly lifestyle. Before we meet, please read the introduction, which is the first 16 paragraphs of the encyclical, to begin our study. Pope Francis wrote in Laudato Si: “Everyone’s talents and involvement are needed to redress the damage caused by human abuse of God’s creation. All of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creation, each according to his or her own culture, experience, involvements and talents.” LS, para. 14. (If you would prefer to have a booklet version of the encyclical, and if you have any questions, please contact Stella Smetanka Mericli at [email protected])