Every June 5, we celebrate World Environment Day, and in 2025 we commemorate the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ encyclical on care for creation. A text that calls us to a deep ecological conversion, integrating respect for the Earth with justice for the most vulnerable.
This 2025 is special. Ten years have passed since that message awakened us, challenged us, and invited us to see reality differently — with the eyes of the heart, listening to both the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor.
“The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together; we cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation. In fact, the deterioration of the environment and of society affects the most vulnerable people on the planet (…)” Laudato Si’, 48.
A Message That Still Lives
When we first read Laudato Si’, we felt it put into words something we had already sensed: that there is no justice without care for creation, that the suffering of the planet and the suffering of the most fragile people are deeply connected. And that to care is to love.
The Pope called us to ecological conversion. Not just to recycle or reduce consumption, but to change how we relate to everything — the Earth, others, and God.
Our Way of Caring
In the communities and projects of the Sisters Adorers, this call becomes visible in very concrete actions: recycling, reducing waste, choosing clean energy where possible, living more simply. But it’s also an attitude: valuing the small things, being grateful, and caring tenderly for what surrounds us.
And above all, caring for the women we accompany in their processes of Liberation. Many come wounded by contexts of prostitution, trafficking, and violence — environments that exploit and discard in favor of profit. This is why our commitment to ecology is also a commitment to justice, life, and dignity.
A Call to Keep Walking
On this Environment Day, we give thanks for these ten years of Laudato Si’ — for all we’ve learned, for all we’ve changed… and for everything we still need to do as the Adorer Family.
The journey continues, and we know we are not alone. Many others — people, communities, organizations — share the desire to live differently: more simply, more humanely, more fraternally.
Caring for the Common Home is not something extraordinary. It is something daily. It happens when we recycle, yes… but also when we embrace with respect, when we teach a child to value what they have, when we pray for the world and its wounds, when we take care of our physical spaces — the places we live and share life. Caring for the environment also promotes our own well-being.
From the Sisters Adorers, we continue to say yes to this mission shared with all humanity. Because caring for creation is also caring for the Kingdom God wants for all.
Let us renew our commitment this June 5: to care for every corner of creation with love, through the small and the everyday. Because the Kingdom blooms there too.