Care for Creation Ministry

A group of parishioners has formed a Care for Creation Ministry to answer Pope Francis’s call in his encyclical Laudato Si’. If you would like to learn more about our ministry, you are welcome at our monthly meeting. For more information contact Rick Chap, rickchap@hotmail.com.

HALLOWEEN
For Halloween, avoid buying candy made with palm oil. Palm oil is a vegetable oil used in candy bars, snack foods, cookies and baked goods. Too often palm oil plantations destroy enormous tracts of virigin tropical forest,exploit child labor, grab land from local communities and devastate critical habitats for elephants, orangutans and tigers. Compare labels and avoid products with palm oil.

Candy without palm oil includes: Brach's candy corn, Dots, Dum-dums, Good and Plenty, Hershey kisses, milk chocolate, dark chocolate and Skor, Jolly Rancher, plain M&M's, Nerds, Nestle Goobers, Raisinettes and Sno Caps, Reese's peanut butter cups, Ring pops, York peppermint patties. More information at http://productswithoutpalmoil.com

CLEAN ENERGY THIS WINTER

With winter approaching, we all will increase our energy usage to heat and light our homes. Click on the PDF below for a list of clean energy options in DC, MD and VA, compiled by Interfaith Power & Light.