Bishop Larry Duffy of Clogher issues Pastoral Letter for the Season of Creation.

“You have been wonderful ambassadors for Ireland and for your faith. By your actions you have humbled us, and by your words you now draw the attention of our country to climate justice.”

“It offers individual believers and the community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation."

“Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.”

Three years would give people an opportunity to address Laudato Si’s recommendations in the local church in the first year, nationally in the second year and globally in the third year.