Online Catholic Home Solar Workshop

St. Matthew's Creation Care Green Team co-hosts with 7 other parishes an online Catholic Home Solar Workshop. Join the conversation and hear Tom Stehle's testimonial—our Music Director and Creation Care supporter installed solar panels on his DC home in 2012 and shares his experience and tips! Round up some like-minded friends or neighbors and join in.

"Praised be You … with all Your creatures, especially Brother Sun,
Who is the day and through whom You give us light...”

- Saint Francis of Assisi

Embrace "Brother Sun"

In the years since the Holy Father’s encyclical Laudato Si’, our region’s Catholic communities have been responding faithfully in many ways.

This spring, Catholic homeowners have an opportunity to embrace the blessing of what St. Francis called “Brother Sun” – by putting up solar panels at home, together with neighbors. Start the process to join purchasing groups through two nonprofit organizations: Solar United Neighbors (bit.ly/IPLsolarswitch24 in Northern Virginia, DC, and Montgomery, Frederick, and Prince George’s counties) and Civic Works (energyprograms.civicworks.com/ipl in Baltimore, Harford, Howard, and Anne Arundel Counties). 

Register to attend

Please join us for an online Catholic Home Solar Workshop on Thursday, May 30 at 7pm to hear a teaching about Pope Francis’ call to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy “without delay,” a testimonial about how meaningful it is to go solar at home, information from both Solar United Neighbors and Civic Works, and then to ask questions about the process, and to sign up! Register at bit.ly/CatholicHomeSolarWorkshop 

This event is convened by Catholic Climate Covenant and Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) in partnership with eight Catholic parishes:

  • Nativity Catholic Church Care for Creation Ministry
  • St. Matthew’s Cathedral Care for Creation Green Team
  • St. John the Evangelist Green Team (Columbia, MD)
  • Holy Trinity Green Team and Social Justice Ministry (DC)
  • St. John Neumann Care for Our Common Home Ministry (Reston, VA)
  • Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church (Vienna, VA)
  • St. Camillus Catholic Church Care for Creation Team (Silver Spring, MD)
  • St. Katharine Drexel Parish Environmental Stewardship Team (Frederick, MD)

Aprovecha la bendición del "sol hermano"

En los años desde la publicación de la Encíclica del Padre Santo, Laudato Si’, las comunidades católicas de nuestra región han respondido fielmente en varias maneras.

Esta primavera, los católicos que son propietarios de viviendas tienen la oportunidad de aprovechar la bendición de lo que San Francisco llamaba “el sol hermano” - poniendo paneles solares en sus casas, junto con sus vecinos. Empiece el proceso de unirse a grupos de compras con dos organizaciones sin fines de lucro: Solar United Neighbors (solarswitch.com/es/capitalarea/home en la norte de Virginia, DC, y los condados Montgomery, Frederick, y Prince George’s) y Civic Works (https://energyprograms.civicworks.com/ipl en la ciudad y el condado de Baltimore y los condados Harford, Howard, y Anne Arundel).

Para aprender más sobre las cooperativas solares y cómo funcionan, mire esta presentación de Solar United Neighbors: bit.ly/SUNpresentacion.