October 3, 2021

Recap: Love.Earth.Justice 2021

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Love.Earth.Justice

Multi-faith Service of Prayer, Celebration, and Resolve

October 3, 2021

Technical difficulties prevented recording the first 20 minutes of the service. You can download and read the text of the worship leaders’ remarks during this part of the service below:

Rev. Nancy Taylor: Invoking the Spirit
Rev. Fred Small: Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
Imam Ibrahim Sayar: Call to Prayer
Rev. Vernon Walker: Litany of Sorrow

Audio problems cut off the end of Tracy Blackmon’s sermon. Her closing words were: “I miss my daddy’s garden. But I am reminded that the earth is God’s garden, and we, as followers of Jesus, as disciples, are called to tend it well. May it be so. May it be so. Amen.”

The offering taken during the service was shared equally between MassIPL’s Faith in Action program and GreenRoots, a Chelsea-based environmental justice organization. If you would like to make an offering, click below:

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MassIPL is grateful to the worship leaders for their participation.

Back row from left: Rev. Vernon Walker, Hartman Deetz
Middle row, from left: Rev. Nancy Taylor, Rev. Fred Small, Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Robert Jonas
Front row, from left: Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman, Imam Ibrahim Sayar, S. Tess Browne SCN, Dr. Bijoy Misra

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MassIPL Staff

Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (MassIPL) is a nonprofit organization representing more than 250 houses of worship across Massachusetts. Our mission is to inspire and support people of faith and conscience to respond to climate change and care for the environment — by helping communities Pray in ways that ground climate action in faith and spiritual values, Act by stewarding their buildings and resources to cut climate pollution and strengthen community life, and Mobilize around climate as a matter of justice and morality.

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