Archdiocesan Office for Environment

The Archdiocesan Office for Environment (AOE) in collaboration with Muktisagar Prabhodan Kendra and St Vincent De Paul Society (SVP) – Dharavi Bet Area Council organised a one-day training programme in the premises of the church of Our Lady of the Sea in Uttan on 17th March 2019.  About 140 SVP office bearers and members from different parishes of Bhayandar deanery participated in this training programme which was themed ‘Caring for Creation’ and ‘Greening of the ...

Programme Report by Dylan D'Souza

The Archdiocese Office for Environment (AOE) in collaboration with Muktisagar Prabodhan Kendra (MSPK), Uttan organised a 'Green Bal Melava' for the six parishes of the Dharavi Island on February 14, 2019 at Our Lady of Vailankanni Shrine, Bhate, Uttan.  Inspired by the ‘Green Bal Melava' held last year, Fr Joseph Gonsalves, the Head of the AOE, and Fr Leslie Malya, the Di...

I have sung the hymn ‘We are happy Christians’ many times in church, but never has it lingered in my subconscious before, as it did on my return journey from the exposure programme in Nashik organised by the Archdiocesan Office for Environment, Mumbai (AOE).  It certainly was drawing my attention to a connect of the lyrics with the Green Diocese Initiative adopted by the Archdiocese of Bom...

Workshop Report by Shawna Nemesia Rebello

A half-day workshop – Greening of the Archdiocese and Business, was organised by the Archdiocesan Office for Environment, Mumbai together with the Christian Business Forum, Mumbai on 1st December 2018 at Sarvodaya in the St Pius Campus at Goregaon, Mumbai. Sixty-nine people from over fifty organisations participated in this workshop.

Bishop Allwyn D’Silva, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese...

A two-day workshop, organised by the Archdiocesan Office for Environment, Mumbai together with the Office of Human Development – Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences was held for Parish Green Teams on 22-23 September 2018 at Sarvodaya in the St Pius Campus at Goregaon, Mumbai. The fifty-four participants represented twenty-one parishes / organisations throughout the Archdiocese of Bombay.

Programme Report by Santan Fernandes

In a first of its kind event, the Archdiocesan Office for Environment (AOE) and the Diocesan Catechetical Center (DCC) collaborated to organise the ‘Green Bal Melava’.  This all-day event was conducted specifically for catechism students of standards 7th to 10th.  It was held on 21st January, 2018 at St Pius X College, the Archdiocesan Seminary in Goregaon.  The theme for this even...

Pope Francis has declared September 1 as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. According to Pope Francis, "The annual World Day of prayer for the Care of Creation offers to individual believers and to the community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in our vocation as stewards of creation, raising to God our thanks for the marvellous works that He has entrusted to our care, invoking his help for the protection of creation and his mercy for the sins committe...

The Archdiocesan Office for Environment (AOE) in collaboration with Women’s Commission of the Mumbai Archdiocese organised two one-day Conferences on “Climate Change Impacts on Women” on 29th and 30th April 2017.

The conference at St John the Baptist Church, Thane was held on April 29, 2017 where total 31 women from 3 deaneries namely, Kurla, Thane and N...

The Archdiocesan Office for Environment planned a Carbon Fast from Ash Wednesday, March 1 to Saturday, April 8, 2017.  Each parish of the Archdiocese of Bombay was alloted one day to choose and immplement any activity which would help in reducing climate change.  The following measures have been taken by the respective parishes:

St Joseph Church, Vikhroli West:

1. We have replaced all the lights in the Church from ordinary tube lights to LED tubes and bulbs...