Season of Creation Convocation
12 - 14 September 2024
#SOCconvocation
(Registrations close Monday 12 August 2024)
Season of Creation Convocation
12 - 14 September 2024
#SOCconvocation
(Registrations close Monday 12 August 2024)
Join us to celebrate the Season of Creation in 2024 at our Catholic Earthcare Convocation!
We are called together during this convocation to ‘wonder’, ‘weave’ and ‘heal’ Earth and the whole of creation.
Gather online during Day 1 and 2 to engage in keynote presentations, workshops, discussions and spiritual experiences.
Day 3 gather together in diocesan hubs to transform learning into action. (There is an online option if you are unable to attend a hub)
For more information email catholicearthcare@caritas.org.au
Note: Registrations close Monday 12 August 2024
About the Season of Creation (1 Sept - 4 Oct)
The Season of Creation is the annual ecumenical celebration of prayer and action for our common home. It is a time to renew our relationship with our Creator and all creation through celebration, conversion, and commitment together.
The Season of Creation begins on September 1, World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, and ends on October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology beloved by many Christian denominations.
Conference Schedule (AEST)
Day 1- Thursday 12 Sept (Online)
WONDER
9 am – 3:30 pm (AEST)
- Keynote presentation
- Sector workshops for schools, parishes, diocese, organisations and religious orders
- General workshops
6 pm – 8 pm (AEST): Optional Joanna Macy experience
Day 2 - Friday 13 Sept (Online)
WEAVE
9 am – 3:30 pm (AEST)
- Keynote presentation
- Sector forums for schools, parishes, diocese, organisations and religious orders
- General workshops
6 pm – 8 pm (AEST): Optional Joanna Macy experience
Day 3 - Saturday 14 Sept (Diocesan Hub with Online option)
HEAL
10:30 am (AEST) onwards.
- Keynote presentation (online)
- Discussion
- Action
- Closing Liturgy or Mass
Locations include: Cairns, Brisbane, Maitland-Newcastle, Broken Bay, Sydney, Bathurst, Parramatta, Canberra-Goulburn, Sandhurst, Melbourne, Perth
FREE ONLINE Student Participation Day
Friday 13 September
Designed for secondary students/leaders to engage in:
- The Student Forum
- Workshops facilitated by Mercy Links
- Workshops facilitated by youth leaders
Joanna Macy experience: the work that reconnects
Thursday 12 and Friday 13 September: 6 – 8pm AEST
Learn practices to open to gratitude, breathe through pain and suffering in the world, see with new eyes and decide to move forward open to what is unfolding.
Hub Day - Saturday 14 September
For people able to travel to a diocesan hub, they will spend the day together beginning with an online keynote address before working together to care for creation. For people unable to travel to a hub, you are welcome to stay online for further learning and sharing.
Hub locations
(Information is correct at time of publication. More details about the venues to come)
PERTH
Catholic Pastoral Centre Highgate 40A Mary St Highgate 6003
CAIRNS
Seville Mercy Centre 35 Bauhinia Ave Earlville QLD 4870
BRISBANE
Francis Rush Centre Hanly Room 196 Charlotte St Brisbane City QLD 4000
MELBOURNE
St Joseph’s by the Sea 16 Esplanade Williamstown VIC 3016
MAITLAND-NEWCASTLE
Diocesan Resource Centre 12 Tudor Street Hamilton 2303
BATHURST
Murungidyal Eco-Hub: a home for Laudato Si' in the Diocese of Bathurst 1 Glasson St Blayney NSW
CANBERRA-GOULBAN
Marist College Marr Street, Pearce, ACT 2607
SYDNEY
St Francis Xavier 17 MacKenzie St Lavender Bay NSW 2060
BROKEN BAY
St Anthony in the Fields Catholic Church 46 Myoora Rd Terrey Hills, NSW 2084
PARRAMATTA
Winbourne Edmund Rice Retreat and Conference Centre 1315 Mulgoa Rd Mulgoa NSW 2745
SANDHURST
Chancery Office Bendigo
Conference Theme
Wonder
To gaze with awe and wonder at the gift of creation and to come to a deep awareness of the ‘signs of the times’.
Weave
To discern a path forward through story-telling and deep weaving with our communities.
Heal
To heal our relationship with creation and act within our communities for change.
Keynote Speakers
Day 1 - Sr. Ann-Maree O’Beirne RSM
Day 2 - Pedro Walpole
Day 3 - Sally Neaves
Platinum Sponsors
Season of Creation Convocation Artwork by Claire Virgona
Claire Virgona is a passionate educator who graduated with the Master of Teaching (Secondary, Visual Art), completed via research, from the University of Melbourne in 2013. She obtained her Bachelor Fine Art(Hons) specialising in Photomedia and Glass, from Monash University in 2009. Claire is a practicing Photomedia artist who has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. She is currently teaching secondary Visual Art and Design at Mercy Regional College in Camperdown, Australia and was an Integral Ecology Fellow with the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, Australia and Papua New Guinea in 2023.