'Our Common Home ~ Privilege and Responsibility'
with Nellie McLaughlin
It was very good to join the Scottish Laity Network on Thursday evening for their Zoom presentation.
In the presentation Nellie refers to Brian Billston's poem, Refugees, It is a reversal poem about the refugees crisis with two different perspectives, read by Jason.
Our Session of Creation Programme focussed on Listening and Responding to the Voice of the Earth and the Voice of the Poor.
Nellie McLaughlin was our companion for our first evening and shared on 'Our Common Home ~ Privilege and Responsibility'
Nellie is a member of The Sisters of Mercy, Ireland. Born in Donegal, she grew up on a farm near the sea, that immersion in nature led her to grow up with a deep sense that we are all part of the great community of life. Working in education for 6 years in Iceland opened a whole new landscape and perspective on planet earth. This together with subsequent prolonged experience of living through the critical years of the Troubles in N. Ireland leading to the Good Friday Agreement marked a turning point. In a deeply divided community what is it that connects us? Our Common Home! The journey of discovery led to the new evolving story of the universe and her commitment to Cosmology, Ecology and Sustainable Living as we face the multiple crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and consequent global injustices and oppressions.
Nellie is a co-founder and a director of The Green Sod Land Trust (2007) and current chairperson of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation – an ecumenical group in Clogher Diocese with parishes in both Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland.