If you said, “Caring for our Common Home,” you’re partially correct. There’s a second part to the preference, equally important: “Collaborate, with Gospel depth, for the protection and renewal of God’s Creation.” It’s a reminder that, collectively, we’re able to accomplish more when we collaborate together, and our Global Network of Jesuit Schools is the perfect platform in which to do so.

One recent example is the “Caring for Our Common Home: An Ignatian Perspective” framework, a collaborative effort created by the Secretariat Task Force on Caring for our Common Home. Representing all six of our global regions and Fe y Alegría, the Task Force’s fourteen members brought multiple lenses from our diverse schools, as well as varied roles (faculty, provincial assistants, Jesuits, and lay). Through those lenses we prayerfully analyzed our core Ignatian documents to create the Caring for our Common Home Framework and its accompanying Action Poster. Intended to encourage us to examine our individual and collective actions and habits, the framework also contains key reflection questions and suggests practical actions we can take to heal our earth.

These documents are meant to be used! Each section is directed to constituent groups who play a role in our school communities, from students to parents and alumni. Each section is framed in the IPP and includes quotations from core documents to set context. Within each section we provided a series of reflection questions and action items.

We pray the conversations that come out of your use of this document will be fruitful and insightful.