Last year, Trócaire worked with over 40,000 people in at-risk communities across Rwanda,
helping vulnerable families build resilience against climate change by:
• Supporting over 2,500 women to receive training in sustainable resource management
• Providing over 20,000 families with fuel-efficient cookstoves to reduce firewood use
• Planting over 320,000 trees across the country
Prayers of the Faithful
1) We pray for the people of Karongi, Western Rwanda who we journey with this Lent. As we
learn more about the challenges they face to survive, may we stand in solidarity with them as followers of Jesus.
Lord, hear us
2) For Uwamahoro, her mother
Verediana, daughter Ineza age 7,
and niece Vanessa age 12 who are on the Trócaire Box this year. May we open
our hearts to share generously with them through financial assistance, prayerful support
and playing our part in caring more deeply for our common home this Lent. Lord, hear us.
Communion Refection Inspire in us a spirit of awe by Sr Maura Fitzsimons, PBVM* Divine Creator, God,
We thank You for the wonder of the universe and its eons of time and life
that has sustained us. We thank You for our sister mother earth, her beauty and giftedness,
the bounty of her days and her sacred ground. Sadly, we have abused
earth’s sacred space and have misread its sacred story, claiming it as our own, opposing Your divine plan.
Its gift of sustainability has been snatched away, diminishing its sustenance for the good of all.
Yes, we can hear its anguished cries of pain and distress its resources stripped bare,
its climate distorted, its water and soil poisoned, its landscape unable to cope.
Creator God, help us to care for sister mother earth with loving attention to its sacred journey.
As it gives of itself without measure. Inspire in us a spirit of awe for its beauty and many life forms.
Amen.