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Sister Sharon Zayac (Dominican Sisters of St. Dominic of Springfield, IL) and Sister Margaret Galiardi (Dominican Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville, NY) were invited by Dominican Sisters in New Zealand to impart their knowledge through climate change workshops. They are pictured here in San Francisco as they prepare to depart for New Zealand. Sister Sharon will present Seeds of Hope: Renewing Ourselves in a World of Chaos on Friday, March 17 and Saturday, March 18, 2017. Pray for Sister Sharon in New Zealand today as she shares her knowledge about the climate challenge to Dominican Sisters, college professors and people interested in learning how to care of our common home.

Take a look at this video of a Brown Bag Seminar called Moral Compass: Responding to the Climate Challenge held at Sacred Heart Convent on Wednesday, February 1, 2017.  Sister Sharon Zayac, OP, Director of Jubilee Farm, lead an audience through Pope Francis’ suggestions in Laudato si’/Care for our Common Home to make a positive impact in response to the climate crisis.

“Being prayerful is seeing the world through a heart much greater than our own.”  ~ Sister Sharon Zayac, OP, Director of Jubilee Farm

“Self-improvement on the part of individuals will not by itself remedy the extremely complex situation facing our world today… these problems must be addressed by community networks and not simply by the sum of individual good deeds…
The ecological conversion needed to bring about lasting change is also a community conversion.” ~ Pope Francis

“While individual actions will not alone dismantle systems of evil (or injustice), those systems will only be dismantled if individuals do act.”  ~ Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda