Zoom Session "Everything Is Connected"

The session "Everything Is Connected", regarding the fifth anniversary of the encyclical of Pope Francisco on the care of the common house, signed on May 24, 2015, will be attended by the Vice Rector Prof. José Manuel Pereira de Almeida, Prof. Inês Espada Vieira, Dr. Juan Ambrosio and two young collaborators of the UCP and participants of the Economy Meeting of Francisco, Filipa Pires de Almeida and Eduardo Lopes, who will talk about the encyclical Laudato si' and its actuality.

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Also to mark this celebration, a sentence from the encyclical Laudato si' will be shared every day at 12:00.

Monday, 18th:
"Interdependence forces us to think of a single world, a common project." (Laudato si', 164)

• Am I (going to be) involved in a common project?

Tuesday, 19th:

"The truth is that "modern man was not educated for the right use of power" (R. Guardini, Das Ende der Neuzeit, 1965, 87), because the immense technological growth was not accompanied by a development of the human being regarding responsibility, values, conscience." (Laudato si', 105)

• Will I know how to use my power with rectitude?

Wednesday the 20th:
Environmental education consists in recovering the different levels of ecological balance: the interior with oneself, the solidarity with others, the natural with all living beings, the spiritual with God (Laudato si', 210).

• What is missing from my ecological balance?

Thursday the 21st:

The majority of the inhabitants of the planet declare themselves believers, and this should lead the religions to establish dialogue among themselves, aiming at the care of nature, the defense of the poor and the construction of a plot of respect and fraternity (Laudato si', 201).

• Do I facilitate or prevent the creation of bridges? 

Friday the 22nd:

The deterioration of the environment and of society affects in a special way the most fragile on the planet (Laudato si', 48).

• What do I do (will I do) for the most fragile?

Saturday 23rd:

The time has come to accept a certain decrease in consumption in some parts of the world, providing resources for healthy growth elsewhere (Laudato si', 193).

• I already know what I'm going to stop consuming?

​​​​​​​Sunday the 24th:

What kind of world do we want to leave to who will succeed us [...]? [...] we refer above all to the general orientation of the world, its meaning, its values (Laudato si', 160).

• I already know what I want to leave?