Over the weekend Sr Colette collaborated with Srs Arlene Flaherty (Blauvelt OP) and Anne Curtis (RSM) to deliver a programme for University Students at Mercy By the Sea, retreat centre, Connecticut. Three objectives of the programme were: to support the present college age generation in their efforts to understand the scope and scale of Earth’s crisis of sustainability, and how it is impacting the wider community of life (Integral Ecology); to invite students to the creation centered spirituality and theology embedded in Laudato Si’ and other important writings, with the hope that this emerging theology and related spiritual practices will energize their faith, their lives, and their work in the world; to immerse students in the ecology of Mercy By The Sea – as a learning lab. From the evaluations it is clear it was a great success.









