Season of Creation

Season of Creation   1 September to 4 October

Encyclical: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home

Pope Francis

All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures.

You embrace with your tenderness all that exists.

Pour out upon us the power of your love, hat we may protect life and beauty.

Fill us with peace, that we may live as brothers and sisters, harming no one.

O God of the poor, help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this earth, so precious in your eyes.

Bring healing to our lives, that we may protect the world and not prey on it, that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction.

Touch the hearts of those who look only for gain at the expense of the poor and the earth.

Teach us to discover the worth of each thing, to be filled with awe and contemplation, to recognize that we are profoundly united with every creature as we journey towards your infinite light.

We thank you for being with us each day. Encourage us, we pray, in our struggle for justice, love and peace.

Beginning this weekend with the World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation we focus for the whole month on ways we are caring for our common home.

For Pope Francis' message on the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation click here

For Pope Francis' Prayer Intention Video for the Care of Creation 2019 click here