The next Laudato Si’ Circle at St Mary’s is on Wednesday 31 July 2019.Time: 6:00pm to 7:00pmLocation: St Mary’s, downstairs room The format for this gathering will be a minute of contemplative silence, followed by the reading of a letter
Author: Mik Aidt
Mik is a journalist and blogger. Used to live in Denmark many years. Spent almost four years in Africa. Has visited some 55 countries around the planet. Now settled in Australia with his family. Mik became a sustainability and climate change blogger because he became a father of three beautiful children, and because – with the words of R. K. Pachauri – “We are all citizens of Planet Earth, and there is no other place we can go.”
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