As the Invocation at Adoremus youth event took place during the Season of Creation, Salford Seminarian Paul Chisnall and Columban Justice, Peace and Ecology Coordinator James Trewby braved the rain to offer workshops exploring the call to 'Care for Our Common Home'.

Following a prayer from Laudato Si', groups of young adults, Religious sisters, priests and youth ministers took part in a guided walk around the grounds of Oscott. Together they learned how the seminary 'walks the talk'. Participants were impressed to see the solar panels and biomass boilers, and enthused by Paul's passionate explanations, linking the practical with the theological. 

The slightly soggy workshop reminded all who took part of the importance of our attitudes with regard to creation; “If we approach nature and the environment without [an] openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and beauty in our relationship with the world, our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters, unable to set limits on their immediate needs. By contrast, if we feel intimately united with all that exists, then sobriety and care will well up spontaneously.” (Laudato Si', 11)