1. Our Common Home A Lenten resource

2. Resurrection and Hope Week four By Sarah Young
In the fourth week, our journey of hard work and suffering is finally vindicated. Those who have followed Jesus through the most difficult times now rejoice in their friendship with him. We can enjoy and celebrate the hope that every situation can be transformed. The forces of good in the world are stronger than the forces of evil. With confidence, Ignatius says that we can find God labouring with us in all things if only we take time to look.
First, we will hear a little bit about a climate campaign for We will be then led into prayer, reflection and action.

3. This heart has been designed by Rob Ryan for the Climate Coalition
This heart has been designed by Rob Ryan for the Climate Coalition. In February 2016 they will be starting a Valentine’s Day Campaign called Show the Love. They have a lot of resources available for schools, and one that Jesuit Missions is supporting is the Green Hearts Campaign (see week 1 of this resource).
Hand making the hearts in schools and classrooms can be a wonderful opportunity for sharing and discussion.

4. Click on the pictures to be taken to the websites
Click on the pictures to be taken to the websites. From there you can download the Green Hearts pack, and more information about the Climate Coalition.

5. Prayer
“I ask God from the wealth of his glory to give you power through his Spirit to be strong in your inner selves,  and I pray that Christ will make his home in your hearts through faith.
I pray that you may have your roots and foundation in love,  so that you, together with all God's people, may have the power to understand how broad and long, how high and deep,
is Christ's love.
 Ephesians 3: 15-19
We have followed Jesus through his journey from death to life. Through this story we have seen just how much God loves us. We close with a prayer from St Paul for each one of us….

6. Reflection Dream of the life you want to live-
The sights you want to see
The skills you want to cultivate,
The ‘you’ you want to be.
Then take your dream to heart,
In everything you say and do,
Let your dream play a part.
Let it be a shining light
That guides you on your way-
Dream of the life you want to live,
Then live your dream each day.
Anonymous.
This poem was found on the wall of a retreat centre in the Southern Philippines
If we can grasp how much God loves us, how might we give a generous response? How might we go beyond ourselves to reach out to those in need?

7. Action
The resurrected Lord made himself visible to each of the people who had journeyed with him.
Let us make Jesus visible each day through small acts of kindness in our school, our families and in our world.
Jesuit Missions is encouraging schools to create Green Hearts. More information is available here ( or on the Jesuit Missions website.

8. Michael Morpurgo’s love letter
Action
Michael Morpurgo’s love letter
Watch the film here
Another action you could do is for The Climate Coalition Valentine’s Day schools project: Wishes for our world.
A beautiful love letter from a grandfather to his granddaughter, written especially for the campaign by award-winning author Michael Morpurgo, forms the basis of a schools resource and competition for 9-11 year-olds. Inspiring children to write their own letters and imagine the future that they wish to see.
The letter is on the next slide. Watch the film. Have students write their own response letters about a future world they want to see!

9. Dear little Miss Mia,
There’s so much I wish for you.
I love the days when you work with me in the garden.
I love above all your delight in everything, that wriggly worm you held between your fingers, just you kneeling there in the earth, so full of joy in being alive. But one day, Mia, if we do not care for it, this good earth of ours will be as arid and lifeless as the moon. Have you ever seen a picture of earth from space, Mia? It’s like a bright blue bead, spinning through the dark. A beacon of life. But our world is as fragile as you are, as I am, as trees are, as birds are, as plants are. If I have learnt anything in my long life, it’s this. Our earth is a living breathing being, and we must hurt her no more. We are using her up, fouling the air and the sea, making a dustbin of the land, a sewer of the oceans, a graveyard of her creatures. We have to learn to love our earth again, love her as much as I love you and you love me. For you and I, we are a part of this living planet, part of our earth’s great family.
So I wish for you, little Mia, and for all children everywhere,
a world, a new world without war or waste, where you and your children will be able to
breathe good clean air, drink clear fresh water, grow and eat only what we need, no more, learn to share what we have, so that no one anywhere goes hungry. I wish no tree ever to be cut down without planting three more in its place. I wish for you a world where, in flying our planes, driving our cars, warming our homes, we do not overheat the world, do not melt the icecaps, raise the oceans, bring flood and fire down upon ourselves. I wish for you a world where the elephant, the tiger and the orangutan can roam wild, free and safely in their forests and on their plains. I wish for you a world where the polar bear can wander far and wide in his world of ice and snow and where the whale and the dolphin can live the life of the deep undisturbed in clean clear seas. Those same seas where we have paddled and played so often together. So go on loving, go on planting, and growing and harvesting, live always in rhythm, in harmony with this wonderful earth, and all shall be well. And my dreams and wishes for you will come true. But all shall be well only if we make it well, Mia. There’s a lot of work to do. A lot of planting. A lot of loving. As I do you.
Your Grandpa

10. © Copyright Jesuit Missions 2016
Text by Sarah Young and Samantha Aidoo
All photos were taken in Jesuit missions, schools and projects by Ashleigh Callow, Gioia Caminada and Richard Greenwood.
Image on slide 3 created by Rob Ryan for the Climate Coalition.
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