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Multi-Faith Earth Day Service

April 22, 2020/in Featured Articles /by admin

On Sunday, April 19, 2020, Interfaith Power and Light and the National Cathedral kicked off Earth Week 2020 with a Multi Faith Service posted online. Here is the video.

Gratitude for Arbor Day

April 20, 2020/in Featured Articles /by admin

Blessings this week.

This week is Earth Week. We did not want to short change our gratitude for trees with Arbor Day April 24, so we will celebrate trees this week.

Ordination of Trees is a small movement within some monasteries of monks who live in areas where forests are threatened. Monks are sacred and to be honored and not killed. Monks began ordaining trees in Thailand and Cambodia as a way to protect them and honor their life.

Trees are vital to clean air. We are conscious of so many suffering from the virus who are not able to breathe and climate change and air. Without trees we would not have clean air. Let us thank and honor trees this week alone, in our family, household and with children.

Earth Embodied Prayer and Action in Nature:

1. Take a walk in your neighborhood or yard and find a tree to thank.

2. If the tree is in your yard bring a piece of cloth that you can tie around the tree (loosely so it does not strangle). If y ou are walking in your neighborhood hug the tree in ordination with your arms.

3. Pray a prayer of gratitude and protection for the tree and for workers on the front line who are tenacious, rooted and self giving like trees.

4. If you have the desire and means plant a tree, or offer to plant a tree in Africa through Interfaith Power and Light’s Carbon Covenant.

5. NM IPL is part of an Interfaith Tree Planting project with the Sikh, Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths to plant a total of 1,000 trees. Individual trees you plant can be counted. If you have planted trees in your yard or at you r house of worship send information of how many trees, and where to carlos@nm-ipl.org so we can keep count. Collective tree planting will take place in the fall.

For the Love of Trees

“When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.”

Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Loving Creator,

Out of chaos seed, root and branches evolved.

Trees stand in the center of life.

Tree arms embrace heaven

Tree roots infuse earth

Trees bless us with oxygen

Trees teach us tenacity and patience.

As trees protect and nurture

May our caregivers and protectors receive sustenance they need to stand strong

to nurture life.

Oh tree thank you for your life.

Thank you for photosynthesis

the breath of life

Thank you for being part of Our Sacred Earth Community with us.

Amen, Blessed Be.

Virtual Earth Week Events in New Mexico and Around the Country

April 17, 2020/in Featured Articles /by admin

Online Multi-faith Earth Day Service

Sunday, April 19, 12:00 Noon-1:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time (2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT)

Washington National Cathedral and Interfaith Power & Light co-host an online service focused on our shared call to climate action. Join us in prayer and song in honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Stay tuned for instructions on dialing in.

Visit NMIPL Facebook Event for more information and updates

Love Made Visible: Engaging Sacred Activism

IPL Annual Week of Faith and Climate Action
Month of April with April 17-26 focus.

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This week, more than 1,500 congregations and hundreds of thousands of people of faith and conscience around the country join virtually together to preach, teach, pray, and act to protect Earth and all who share Our Common Home. We hold all who are suffering from the virus pandemic as we reflect and act this Earth Week.

The national IPL theme this years is Love Made Visible: Engaging in Sacred Activism. Learn how to participate here. Use resources for your remote worship services, take part in IPL’s online Love Made Visible Climate March, view a free film, plant trees in the global south, pledge to vote, and join the daily video prayers for the earth on Interfaith Power & Light’s Facebook page led by faith leaders from several traditions.

Join with the thousands of people on Earth Day at Noon local time who will be praying the beautiful interfaith prayer, “We Hold The Earth”. Sign up to pray, download the prayers, and see the schedule of daily prayer video releases on Facebook here.

A Centro-Laudato Si, Poetry reading with reflections by Mona Lydon-Rochelle

Monday, April 20, 4 pm

Virtual via Zoom. Registration Required. Send name and e-mail address to joan@nm-ipl.org

Mona Lydon-Rochelle will share her long poem with reflections and an opportunity for thoughts as a way to celebrate Earth Week and Pope Francis inspirational and instructional document, Laudato Si: On Care of Our Common Home, which celebrates its 5^th anniversary in May. Poem will be sent to those registered after the event. All are welcome.

IPL Earth Day Prayer across the country

April 22, 2020, noon

Sign up to join nationwide

NMIPL Special Interfaith Prayer

To be posted online on April 22, 2020

Watch a video with reflections from leaders representing various faith traditions in New Mexico

Theme: Wisdom from Sister Water

Earth Mother Speaks: A Call for Change We Can’t Ignore

April 22 5:30-7:00 p.m.

This Earth Day we are amplifying the voice of our Earth Mother and the voices from the frontlines as we explore the relationship between resistance, resilience, and revolution in the age of COVID-19 & the climate crisis. Check on Facebook Event for Zoom Registration information.

Hosted by Earth Care, New Energy Economy, XR Climate Action – Santa Fe, Santa Fe DSA, WildEarth Guardians, Tewa Women United, 350 New Mexico and Fight For Our Lives

Faith Call to Climate Justice (FCCJ)

April 22-24

A three-day virtual gathering brought together by an interfaith coalition organizing for climate justice! It is an opportunity for people of all faiths to join together in worship and celebration. We will share songs and sermons and teachings and prayers to raise awareness for climate justice. Join with other people of faith as we call for climate justice and the healing of this world.

Earth Day Live: Strike, divest, and vote for our future.

April 22-24

The fights against the coronavirus and the climate crisis go hand-in-hand, and as we work to flatten the curve of this pandemic, we must strive toward the longer term goal of building a society rooted in sustainability and justice.

RSVP to join national livestream

Catholic-Buddhist Dialogue: Solidarity and Engagement on Climate Change

An Earth Day Webinar: Thursday, April 23^,8:00-9:30 AM MDT (9:00-10:30 AM CDT)

You are invited to join us for a special Earth Day webinar on Thursday, April 23, exploring how Catholic and Buddhist traditions:

1) Confront the climate crisis, and also what aspects of Catholic and Buddhist traditions contribute to factors that imperil life on the planet.

2) How these traditions might enable us to realize our highest human potential: the deep expression of compassion and love for each other, especially the most vulnerable among us — both human and non-human —bearing the brunt of the suffering.

REGISTER HERE

Speakers:

Dekila Chungyalpa: Director – Loka Initiative, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Kathleen Deignan CND: Professor of Religious Studies, Iona College
Leo Lefebure: Professor of Theology, Georgetown University
David Loy: Professor, Writer, and Zen teacher

Moderator:

Joshua Basofin, Director of Climate Program at Parliament of World Religions

This Catholic-Buddhist dialogue is sponsored by Parliament of World Religions, Catholic Climate Covenant, Catholic Association of Diocesan Ecumenical and Interreligious Officers (CADEIO), Earth Day Network, and Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies (SBCS).

nterfaith Power & Light, New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light, California Interfaith Power & Light, SC Interfaith Power & Light, Wisconsin Interfaith Power & Light (WIPL) Nashville Chapter – TN Interfaith Power & Light, Faith in Place and Virginia Interfaith Power & Light

Intersection of Climate Change & Coronavirus NM Town Hall

Wed. April 22, 7-8 pm

Facebook Event Link RSVP Link Zoom

Albuquerque Climate Coalition presents a live Webinar with a panel of speakers that includes

Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller

Ahtza Dawn Chavez – NAVA Education Project

Nathalie Eddy – Earthworks

Rebecca Sobel – Wild Earth Guardians

Mark LeClaire – farmer

Dr. Anne Epstein

Allegra Love – Santa Fe Dreamers Project

Linda Starr – Great Old Broads for Wilderness

YUCCA (Youth United for Climate Crisis Action)

FFOL (Fight for Our Lives) & Mutual Aid ABQ

Mario Atencio, Navajo Community Leader/Dine Care

Joan Brown, NM IPL, Prayer

What will the pandemic can teach us about the societal shifts needed to prepare for the Climate Crisis, locally and globally? A conversation will follow to hear from the public on their views of the intersection as well as a Questions & Answers.

“Imagine! God’s Earth and People Restored”

April 24, 2020, 12 noon MT

Zoom virtual gathering by Franciscan Action Network, registration required.

Typically, the Franciscan family gathers each year for the Ecumenical Advocacy Days conference in DC. Since this is not a typical year we will be gathering by Zoom–with special guest speaker Sr. Joan Brown, OSF of New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light. You must register to be on the call. Capacity is already half full–so be sure to register today. The deadline to register is Monday, April 20th.

Communities of Faith, Science-based Policies and COVID

April 24, 3 pm MT

Featuring Dr Adrienne Hollis of Union of Concerned Scientist

and The Rev Scott Onque, Director of Policy at Faith in Place

What role do communities of faith take in advocating for science-based policies considering COVID.

Register Here