Caring For Our Common Home
Caring for Our Common Home
Saint Ignatius’ College Riverview acknowledges the Cammeraygal people who are the traditional custodians of the land upon which the College is situated.
The Cammeraygal people lived in harmony with their environment for thousands of years—a tradition acknowledged and respected by our current generation.
Caring for Our Common Home is one of the four Jesuit Global Apostolic Preferences. In his letter announcing the preferences in 2019, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Fr Arturo Sosa SJ, wrote: “In his encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis reminds us that all human beings share responsibility for care of creation, considered by many people “mother earth”.
Saint Ignatius’ College Riverview has adopted the Australian Jesuit Province’s Laudato Si’ planning process and incorporated the Jesuit Global Secretariat’s ‘Caring for Our Common Home: An Ignatian Perspective’ document to develop a strategic action plan that engages our whole community in living out our vocation to be protectors of God’s creation.
In developing our action plan, we are conscious that we are called to care for and engage with our common home across a spectrum of scales: global, national, local and personal. Saint Ignatius’ College Riverview is home to all those who live, work and are educated within our beautiful campus. It is home to a rich diversity of natural and built environments, and we share a responsibility to educate and inspire our community to connect, collaborate and work towards a more sustainable future, while developing a deeper understanding of how our actions—most of which take place in the local context and environment—impact our common home from a regional and global perspective.
The Caring for Our Common Home Five-Year Strategic Plan can be found below.
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